It’s always good to catch up with friend you’ve met while travelling. I met my friend Jack in Vietnam when we were both teaching English together in Hanoi. Jack lives in Southern Ireland, and so I went to go and see him a visit for a few days. It’s a little greener than it was when I took off from London! It turns out that I actually arrived on the last day of what is the biggest annual festival in the region. We went out that night […]
Part 1 here. I wasn’t long in London before I realised there is a hell of a lot to do and see in this city, and it’s one of those places where you could spend a month trekking around and still have stuff left to see. I planned my days geographically, as the place is so big to be running from one end of town to the other. Covent Garden, which is where I bought the pie from, always has loads of buskers and street performers […]
There are several ways to get to London from The Netherlands. You can drive, bus, train, ferry or fly. Narrowing down the to the more viable options, by the time you get to the airport, go through check-in and then make your way into London on the other side (unless you’re flying into Heathrow, which none of the cheap flights do) you may as well take the train. Which is what I did. I booked the ticket a few days before and it cost 80 […]
I think we can all agree that the world in general has become much more liberal and open minded in recent times, and one could argue that no other country is more qualified to be associated with those adjectives than The Netherlands. I didn’t specifically plan to be in Amsterdam when this infamous event was on this year, but when good ol’ Facebook alerted me that it was on in a couple of weeks I was glad I was in the country. There are sometimes misconceptions […]
When I flew out New Zealand to begin this trip, I didn’t have a solid plan, but I soon set a goal for myself. When I was in South East Asia, I decided I wanted to make it to The Netherlands, where my family is from and one of my favourite places, by land. I’d like to say that I’ve achieved that goal since my first stop, Thailand, but there are a couple of reasons I can’t. When I was with my mate Phil in […]
After a boozy day in Munich, I boarded what is hopefully my last ever ride with Flixbus to Heidelberg, a town on the way to 350km north-west of Munich and conveniently on the way to my final destination on my ‘land trek,’ The Netherlands. This won’t be a long post as my main reason for getting off the bus in Heidelberg was to visit my good pal Rob, who recently moved to a small town near Heidelberg called Eberbach. The area is rather picturesque, dotted with […]
Before I yarn about my fun-filled day in Munich, I’m going to have a rant. At this point in my journey, I’ve travelled over 30,000 km’s by land, through countries with third world transport infrastructure, monopoly currency and language that sounds more like ancient Egyptian than anything else I’ve ever heard. However, it was getting from Italy to Germany that has been the most frustrating leg of this trip I’ve had to take so far. I’ll summarise it as briefly as I can. Due to […]
After our 3 days in Florence, Paul and I made our way to Pisa. The bus cost 5 Euros and takes around an hour and a half. We arrived mid afternoon and checked in to Hostel Pisa before taking a walk around our new town for the night. Pisa gets a lot of tourist traffic each year, and it’s easy to see why. If you don’t know, there’s a tower in the middle of the town which has been there for over 800 years and […]
When I was 17, I was lucky enough to have gone to Italy on a family holiday. We visited Venice and Rome, and I have fond memories of huge slices of pizza, crazy drivers to rival the Vietnamese and waiting in line 3 hours to get inside the Vatican. I always wanted to go back, and so did Paul, who had been in Italy before Croatia. He’d visited Rome already too, and so we decided to make Florence the next stop. As mentioned in my […]
It’s been some time since I spent a few days on a party island. Given I can only survive so many benders a year these days, I tend to pick and choose them more carefully now. It was about time for another, so what better contender for a place on the calendar than the renowned Pag island of Croatia? After getting in touch with a couple of mates and planning a weeks stay in the heart of Novalja, 10 minutes from Zrce beach, I took […]
