The Blue Lagoon in Iceland features prominently on many people's bucket lists. It certainly did on mine - and this spring I finally got a chance to visit to cross it off! The only thing I knew about the Blue Lagoon prior to my trip was...
Camden Town is known for its quirky street art, bustling underground scene and cheap street food, some of which will have you causing a scene on the underground as you frantically search for a toilet. For £4 a pop you can get just about any type of food...
I'd only been in Manchester a grand total of five days and I was already in dire need of intense rest and recuperation. After packing up my flat in London, dragging the majority of my worldly possessions onto the train, arriving in Manchester, trying not to terrify my boyfriend by the...
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...
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...