It’s now been just over a month since two pasty-faced, jetlagged Scots landed in Vancouver, blinking against the strip lights in Richmond Airport’s baggage carousel. After a brief struggle to the taxi rank with four big bags of both the luggage and under-eye variety, we were on our way to our Airbnb in West Vancouver,… Read More Newbs in Vancouver
It’s the ruggedly handsome island I’ve always daydreamed about. With a couple of days leave still left to take before Christmas, I decided to fulfil my romantic little reveries and book a long weekend over the sea to Skye. I’m far from unique in my idealised vision of the island, which explains its brimming population… Read More Skye High
Despite visiting this wonderful city already aged 18, my memories of it have become somewhat hazy over the years. So when my friend chose Madrid as the setting for her hen do, I was excited to get to explore it again and refresh my memories of a decade earlier. So even though we were only… Read More 48 hours in Madrid
The stretch between December and March/April can seem fairly eternal. With the excitement of Christmas behind us, the next cause for celebration is the distant promise of leaves on trees, the long Easter weekend and the ability to gorge shamelessly on chocolate eggs. SO, this is precisely why it’s the perfect time to book a… Read More Two peas in a pod: A stay at Glencoe Riverbed Lodges
Prague: a city known for its architecture, history, gastronomy and magnetism for British stag dos. The latter being, oddly, the reason I came to this city second time round (the first I was interrailing aged 20 with my best friend – enough said.) No, I wasn’t on a stag do, the boy was – and… Read More Four days in Prague
