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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Video: The day we went foraging for mushrooms in Latvia
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…
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Cheap rail tickets in the UK? 11 train travel hacks + £3 off discount code
How can you get cheap rail tickets in the UK? This is a question that I get asked a lot by readers who are…
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48 Hours in Aarhus, Denmark’s coolest city
‘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…
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2 days in Munich
2 days in Munich? So much to see and yet so little time to see it all. Even though I love living in Berlin,…
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18 cool things to do in Occitanie: the real South of France
I’ll openly admit that I had little clue about Occitanie until visiting the region earlier this year in Spring. Lying in the south west…
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48 Hours in Bruges
I visited Bruges last month after hopping on a P&O Ferries Hull to Zeebrugge ferry. You can spend a day in Bruges on typical mini…
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Ultimate German Castle Hostel Tour
You don’t need a princely income to go to bed in some of Europe’s finest historic buildings. With access to former palaces, forts, keeps…
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