Travel Doesn’t Make You a Better Person
A friend told me something recently that got me thinking. They talked about how little they’ve travelled, and the expectation that someone who’d travelled a lot more than…
Going Back to Lisbon After Almost 3 Years
If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you might remember that we spent a month in Lisbon in spring 2015, and we loved it….
Ängsbacka Midsummer Festival
With my Interrail pass this year I had planned to visit my best friend in Stockholm. I usually like to go there a few times…
Should You Visit the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur?
The Petronas Twin Towers are no doubt the most famous icon in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s capital city. Opened in 1999, and made famous by the…
How to Be Present While Travelling
If you’re anything like me, you might have difficulty being present. For me, this used to be (and indeed sometimes still is) a problem that…
London | Reflections | UK
Sorry London, I’m Over You
I’ve always had a very tumultuous relationship with London. I have fond memories as a young child of riding the tube, fascinated by the fact…
A Summer Holiday in Halland, Sweden
This is the second summer that we’ve spent a couple of weeks in Sweden, and it seems that indeed it’s likely to become a regular…
Berlin | Germany | Reflections
Queer Berlin: A History Tour
Schöneberg is not a part of Berlin I have spent much time in. Indeed, it feels different from the neighbourhoods I know and hang out…
Places I Definitely Need to Revisit, But This Time With Zab
Where’s next? The eternal conundrum for any traveller. With so many wonderful places on this Earth to explore, it’s easy to keep adding to the…
Stereotypes Shattered and Confirmed in the Netherlands
The second month of our three away from home in Berlin is almost at an end, and having spent the last three weeks housesitting in…
Lisbon: First Impressions
We’ve now been in Lisbon for almost two weeks. While we’ve both been here before (me for two days in 2012 when I was living…
The Time We Almost Bought a Summer House in Sweden
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Zab and I met in 2005. Six weeks after we met, we went on holiday together to stay with his…