I went offline for a while and this is why. I spent a week visiting various Caribbean islands and not keeping up with world events – win/win situation. Day 1: Leaving San Juan Most Caribbean Cruises leave from mainland...
Dining with a Michelin star
I think I might be a terrible friend or maybe just antisocial. Thanks to two of the most awesome people in the world deciding to get married, I found myself in Budapest with a couple of dozen similarly awesome...
On the road again…
So I’ve had my usual summer hiatus from blogging. I really think I’m messing something up in the way I organize my life because I’m always crazy busy in the summer and don’t have time to travel and have...
Brunch, brunch, brunch, brunch!
I’m not a big fan of breakfast. I love mornings and I love breakfast foods but I do not enjoy eating first thing in the morning. This means that brunch is definitely a good meal for me (probably my...
How much I spent in Lake Bled
June 2018 Accommodation Garden House Bled (3 nights): €54.81 (including breakfast) Total: €54.81 Average = €18.27/night Food and drink Total: €138.48 (3 dinners, 2 lunches, 1 breakfast + groceries) Average: €46.16/day Transport Trains: €29 (Zagreb-Lesce Bled – one way)...
Lake Bled, Slovenia
June 2017 Because of the vaguest of family connections, Lake Bled has always been on my travel list. And I finally made it. It was just as pretty as it seems from all the photos. A crystal clear lake...
Spring has sprung
April 2018 A beautiful spring day in the UK calls for a visit to a National Trust property and so, while I was visiting friends in Cheshire, I visited Quarry Bank Mill at Styal. I hadn’t been in too...
El Morro, New Mexico
There are so many places that I have visited and loved in New Mexico, and the most recent is El Morro National Monument. Located just outside the Zuni Pueblo, El Morro is a sandstone rock formation with a waterhole at...
Mistakes and mishaps in Bled
June 2017 My visit to Castle Bled was a collection of epic fails and misadventures. Still one of the most stunning places on earth though. The weather forecast was for heavy rain in the afternoon so I decided the...
What’s the hurry?
I was reading a discussion yesterday about publishing a series of books and, apparently, there are people who prefer to wait until a series is completed before buying the books so they can read them all at once. I...