I lost my heart & passport in Nice
Since we are all staying at home, I thought I’d dust off some old photo albums and tell you a few stories from my…
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Lessons in architecture learnt in Vorarlberg
“We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.” Winston Churchill Until recently, I rarely appreciated how much of an impact, architecture has…
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Görlitz-The most beautiful city in Germany you’ve never heard of
‘Görlitz is a fantastic little town. You don’t know what to expect.’ Tony Revolori-‘Zero’ from ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ Few cities in Germany…
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10 years of the BudgetTraveller: Rethinking the meaning of influence and wanderlust in a digital age
The BudgetTraveller celebrated 10 years in April. Crazy how time flies. I wasn’t in a very good place when I started this blog 10 years…
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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…
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24 hours in Daugavpils, Latvia’s second largest city
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…
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The day we went MAD foraging for mushrooms in Latvia
‘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…
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That time I ate my way through Rotterdam
“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” ― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Greetings…
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Skiing on a budget? Is it possible?
I’ll be straight with you. Skiing as a sport has never appealed to me. I spent my childhood years playing cricket on the dusty…
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The highs and lows of skiing for the first time
Everyone has a ski story. Even if they haven’t gone skiing in their lifetime. Almost most of these stories inevitably involve someone breaking something….
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