The Armchair Traveller

I felt a bit sorry for Paris when we landed at Orly airport, after a week in Tuscany – where I fell completely in love with the relaxed Tuscan way of life – Paris was definitely going to be a culture shock. This would be my second visit to Paris, and while I completely loved [...]

Kako sti? Ja sam dobro hvala! It is very hard to describe just what an incredibly amazing place Hrvatska (Croatia) is. There is really nothing that compares to it! It was so strange, but as I was travelling along the coast on the bus from Split towards Makarska I felt so at peace, it felt [...]

Two weeks after arriving back from Krakow, my friend Shanika and I decided to make the trip to Dublin for the Easter holiday. So on Saturday morning we flew out from Stansted airport and landed in Dublin, Ireland at 09:30. Once getting off the airport bus on O’Connel Street (one of the main streets in [...]

Travel Tip #1: When trying to stay awake with your friends before your 2am trip to the airport for your holiday, do not under any circumstances watch a film like Mamma Mia unless you want to spend the whole trip with random Abba songs in your head! This was a lesson learned the hard way [...]

From the moment I got off the airport train and started walking towards the hostel I knew that Copenhagen was a place I would enjoy spending time in. I can’t really explain why, it just made a really good impression on me. Arriving on a Friday late afternoon, I was pleased to discover that the [...]

Back in July 2008 I decided that it had been far too long since my last holiday to Europe (I hadn’t been back from America for very long and already I wanted to go off somewhere else) so I made the decision to spend three days somewhere. The problem was that I had very little [...]