It feels like a treat the days when we only have a couple of hours to travel to our next destination. I like train travel but once you have done a few days of 6+ hours traveling over a 2-month period it starts to wear you out a bit. The train journey from Florence to…
Apparently it is this Tuscan city that turns your average person into an art gallery loving freak… Yes I could see how that could happen but in our case it did not. The simple reason is we would much rather buy a couple of nice bottles of Chianti than pay 11€ each to see David’s…
We managed to find a train that would take us straight from Salerno to Rome, which was fantastic (that is after we made it through the horrendous bus ride from Amalfi to Salerno!). We decided to make a seat reservation and thank-fully we did as the train was packed – a seat makes the 3-hour…
If it wasn’t for advice on twitter or my love for pizza I probably wouldn’t of visited Napoli. Actually I think at one point I told Morgan that Napoli was off the itinerary after reading about mafia, thieves, violence and dirt and grim in the Lonely Planet! Actually no guidebook seemed to mention anything nice…
To be honest we were pretty much stopping in Bulgaria to break up the journey to Greece. To get to the Bulgarian capital it was a total of 13-hours travel; Brasov-Bucharest & then Bucharest-Sofia. The first part of the journey was rather forgettable as it was early in the morning, the seats were comfy and…
It is the home of Dracula. How could we not be excited about that. If you know me, you know that I’m a dedicated Buffy, Angel, Twilight & True Blood fan. So of course I was looking forward to getting to Romania aka. the birthplace of vampires supposedly. However we were both a little apprehensive…
Leaving Zagreb was not a pleasant experience. Not because I was sad to leave but having to run off with my pack on the way to the train station to vomit in the botanic gardens is not one of my lifetime highlights. I had been up most of the night beforehand making good use of…
We had no idea how to even pronounce the name of where we were going. It is the capital of Slovenia and roughly 10% of the country’s population lives there – 200,000 people. Ljubljana is its name and now I can mumble out something which sort of sounds like how it should be said. We…
Following up from my article about cheap eats in Edinburgh, I have to mention Leith Lynx. The quality of the food at this cozy yet high-market establishment is to die for. If you’re lucky enough to be in Edinburgh during March or April 2012 you just have to go there for a Sunday roast. Even…