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Bucharest has a bit of a reputation. That is a reputation for being a grey, dull, Communist-era shithole with very little to give the average tourist. Yet, having developed a fascination with the Ceaușescu regime and its impact upon Romania and its people when studying the revolution of 1989, I was drawn to it forContinue reading “On Bucharest, Palaces and Metro Stations”

Who are RegioJet? RegioJet is a name perhaps unknown to those of us in the UK or even some parts of Western Europe, yet they’re big business in the budget coaching world. They even run a (somewhat absurd) twice-weekly route from London Victoria to Plzeň and Prague for those of us who really want toContinue reading “RegioJet: A viable overnight option?”

I produced a blog post a couple of months ago, where I reflected upon my disastrous dating choices and tentatively travelling into mainland Europe once again. Now that the world is opening up at a more rapid pace than ever before, it feels apt to, say, recalibrate what I’m looking for in 2022. Latvia wasContinue reading “(Updated!) Travel Goals for 2022”

I started the next morning at the fairly early hour of around half six. It was bitterly cold outside as I contemplated my life choices, as with every single time that I’d start an early alarm on holiday, and packed myself up for a short stroll to the tram towards the station. This morning, IContinue reading “Going Latvian: two”

Prelude Being frank, I didn’t exactly book a trip to Latvia because I absolutely wanted to go there and had my heart set on it. I booked it because it was a new country, relatively easy to get into and the flights were cheap. Little did I know that I would end up so investedContinue reading “Going Latvian: 1”

I woke up bleary eyed at around half 4 in the morning, cursing myself as to why the hell I’d insisted upon such a fucking early start, especially when it entailed walking through several dodgy areas of the city. Nonetheless, I was a sucker for punishment and headed out, with the charming streets of theContinue reading “To Portugal! #2”

Following my escapade to Canada and the realisation that travelling to another continent wasn’t quite so bad, I embarked upon a slightly less crazy adventure to Portugal in November 2021. This also followed the further relaxation of rules for travellers returning to the UK, meaning that a cheaper Lateral Flow test was only required onContinue reading “To Portugal! #1”

I arrived back from Porto last weekend deciding that it had been so successful, that I needed another trip this weekend. Oh what a fucking mistake that was. This is the tale of everything going wrong all at once. I booked myself on the cheapest route possible, which involved a Manchester-Madrid-Bordeaux-Manchester route, with a totalContinue reading “The Trip That Never Was”

I remember banging in March 29th and 30th as rest days at work, giving myself a nice long stint off as mere speculation that the world would look slightly more normal. So, when I found out that the stars had aligned and that my first day off would be the first day that non-essential travelContinue reading “Obituary to Lockdown #3”

Having woken up the next morning, I decided to embark on a wee walking tour of Prague before things got busy. I was based not far from the old town, by the Nový Smíchov shopping centre, and so it was a short ride there on the Metro from Andel station. The Prague Metro is veryContinue reading “Europe, Round One. (Part Two)”