This was not our first visit to Brussels. Because it is located at the end of the eurostar line we’d been to the station many times before on trips to Amsterdam and further afield. If you want to go east […]
South Beach, Bringing the Heat
I’ll begin this blog with one of the first things I learned about Miami after we arrived, maybe it will be a new piece of information for the readers, maybe it won’t. Miami and Miami Beach are two different places. […]
The Washington (blog) Post
Washington DC is recommended by all who have been, great for history, food and free museums. They weren’t wrong. After an overnight Greyhound from Toronto to New York, we jumped on a 5 hour bus (or motorcoach as they say […]
One country, two systems
Hong Kong (or Xiānggǎng in Cantonese) was the name of a small fishing village and the island that it was located on. In 1860 it expanded to include the Kowloon Peninsula and then in 1898 it expanded again to include […]
Japan at last!
It’s taken us three months but we’ve got here. Japan was where we originally intended to go for a couple of months break after finishing my PhD. As you can tell, we got a bit carried away… why not spend […]
20547 steps in Helsinki
…and on the boat in the morning and evening drinking coffee or beer. This is apparently 13.5km. It was a good day. Perhaps we should have got the tram or metro, but we were determined to make Helsinki a walkable […]
Island hopping in Stockholm
The train from Copenhagen to Stockholm was a brief 5 hours in comfort. The train left from platform 26 and our passports were checked before boarding. One family was refused to board as the mum had a valid ID but […]
Truly Danish Pastries
We arrived off the coach at around 20:30. I quickly checked the map to the hostel on my phone and then confidently led us in the wrong direction. In my defense it was because I’d assumed the coach would drop […]
