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Where the Wild Horses roam in Latvia

The older I grow, the more I find pleasure in seeking out the unknown, the insignificant and the less celebrated. Maybe its part of…

It’s Friday evening in the second city of Latvia, Daugavpils. Our legs are numb and throats parched. We’ve been on a train for…

‘What are you doing today?’ Nothing. Let’s go mushroom picking.’ Our guide for the day, Latvian blogger Zane Enina of Mugursoma.lv fame tells me…

I left Berlin in August at the height of this summer’s epic heat wave. I’ve returned to Berlin in late October and the city…

How can you get cheap rail tickets in the UK? This is a question that I get asked a lot by readers who are…

‘You don’t know boring till you’ve visited Denmark. Copenhagen is pretty but there’s not much else to see.’ A friend from university told me…

UncategorizedOctober 9, 2018

I published my first book just a little over a month ago. It’s called ‘The Grand Hostels: Luxury Hostels of the World’ ,…

2 days in Munich? So much to see and yet so little time to see it all. Even though I love living in Berlin,…

The initial plan was not to visit Föhr. We were keen on visiting the Greek islands. It would be perfect in July. Warmth. Great…

There are lot of fantastic neighbourhoods to choose from when you visit Berlin but few rival Mitte. For me ‘Mitte’, the ‘middle’ and heart…