When my boyfriend invited me to join him for a few days of cat-sitting in Yarm, its name was nothing but a vaguely funny four-letter word to me. Almost as funny as cat-sitting which to my great relief did not involve using kittens as cushions. My flatmates were equally confused when I...
Efficiency. Innovation. Modernity. Germany is widely considered the home of all things shiny, new and organised. But there is a lot more to the country than the hipster neighbourhoods of East Berlin, the beer gardens of Munich or Hamburg's red light district. Just over eight percent of Germany's 80 million inhabitants live...
Although it's known as a winter destination, there are so many things to do in Banff in the summer that it's difficult to know where to start. The town with a population of 8,400 could easily be just another dot on the map, were it not...
If you were searching for a hot new culinary destination, looking to Reykjavik restaurants for an answer might not be your first instinct. It wasn't mine either but the Icelandic capital quickly proved me wrong. From freshly caught fish to fermented shark, from American burgers to the most delectable...
Bread, potatoes and cabbage. The fact that Soviet food shortages have not been forgotten by contemporary Russians is clearly visible through their grocery lists. But although they might not be the world's biggest experimenters, I can't bring myself to call the Russian way of cooking unimaginative. Who...
What if I told you there was a place where you could see geysers shoot thirty metres into the air, stand close to a waterfall as it furiously plunges into a crevice far below and jump across tectonic plates? That place exists and its name is Iceland. Not just anywhere...
I was prepared to spend my whole life looking for Neverland, travelling far and wide in search of a fairytale island where I could remain forever young. The good news is that I have found it. It's called Herrankukkaro and it's magical. If you have never heard of Herrankukkaro, don't feel bad. If you can't pronounce the...
I'm clearly becoming English, because as of late I've been starting all my posts with a paragraph about the weather. I just can't help myself - when the country comes alive with little specks of gold, it's just so pretty. But enough about that...