I mostly write about Spain, but I’ve been bitten well and truly by the travel bug. Here’s where you can find all my posts about non-Spain travel.
I generally write about European weekend getaways (all those low-cost airlines are amazing), but occasionally I venture further abroad, too!
If you’re interested in reading about a particular destination, use the drop-down menu above to pick your locations.
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Learning to Love Downtown L.A. (Well, Almost)
L.A. is perhaps the most frustrating city I’ve ever been to. A permanent snarl of traffic in an endless sprawl of a city, with many areas that are ugly and others that are flat-out dangerous, Los Angeles isn’t exactly the easiest city to get to grips with. But there...
Dancing With Dragons in the California Desert
As we drove, we left behind the suburban strip mall sprawl and started to get into fields dotted with deep green trees. We drove past farms, Wild West Pony Express routes, and flying schools with tiny one-man airplanes. The landscape slowly started to shift from...
Reverse Culture Shock: It’s The Little Things
Take a look at the literature on culture shock, and you'll probably come across the concept of "reverse culture shock" pretty quickly. Before I'd spent a little while abroad, I was skeptical that it was actually a thing. After all, I thought, wouldn't it feel pretty...
Panic in the Hills of Edinburgh
Or, you can take the girl out of the city... Edinburgh's wind is famous for its almost constant presence in the city. Sometimes it's a light breeze gently dancing its way around the narrow closes and stony buildings, whistling happily along. But at other times it's a...
Vienna: The City of Beautiful Cakes
It's easy to feel like royalty when you're in Vienna. Nearly the whole city looks like a palace, with its elegant white buildings topped with mint green domes and sparkling golden statues. The buildings look like expensive jewelry boxes and intricate wedding cakes....
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Edinburgh’s Royal Mile
Probably just about every visitor to Edinburgh has made a stop by the Royal Mile. This long series of streets stretching from the Edinburgh Castle to Holyrood Palace cuts through the city center, and it's pretty much impossible to avoid. It does indeed run an entire...
