The Armchair Traveller

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 hostel [...]

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 [...]

Waking on our last morning in Paris it was noticeable that all the stair climbing and walking around was starting to take its toll on our energy levels. Once up Rachel and I packed our bags so that we were ready to check out a little later on.
Our first outing of the day was to walk to the [...]

Well after what felt like the shortest sleep ever it was suddenly Sunday morning and Rachel and I prepared for another day exploring Paris. Today however we had decided to make the journey just outside of Paris to the Chateau de Versailles. Versailles has always been a place of interest for me; I studied it [...]