What is time to a backpacker?
Time is a pretty fluid concept at the best of times. To a backpacker it’s even more arbitrary.
Europe
Must-see Paris: the Arc de Triomphe
For the best views over Paris, France, you can’t do better than the famous Arc de Triomphe…
5 surprisingly great places to visit in Europe
I was disappointed by Paris, let down by Venice and maddened by Rome – but these five European cities were unexpectedly brilliant!
I was robbed in Spain
If I’m not careful this may descend into a barrage of cursing and swearing. This is the tale of my darkest ever travel experience, the story of the time I was robbed in Spain…
An unfashionable traveller in fashionable Milan
I was lost in a city unlike any other I’d ever been to before, a city in which high fashion is a religion and even […]
Fun with Spanish travel acrostics
You know how a lack of sleep can make your brain do funny things? Well this is what happened when I sat down to write […]
Rural France is a fairytale setting
Like something in a children’s storybook, a fairytale set once upon a time in a faraway land, the castle looms large above an idyllic, green […]
Disneyland Paris: the happiest place in Europe
Zippity doo dah, zippity yay, my oh my what a wonderful day… Visiting Disneyland Paris is a fantastic way to spend a day – and […]