Category: Travel

Week 5 of my 5-week interrailing trip round Europe

Final wrap-up of my five-week interrailing trip round Western Europe. Read More

Week 4 of my 5-week interrailing trip round Europe

Fourth week of interrailing adventures Read More

Week 3 of my 5-week interrailing trip round Europe

In which I travel from Nice to Valencia, navigating the intricacies of the French rail strikes, and the wonder Las Fallas. Read More

Week 2 of my 5-week interrailing trip round Europe

Some of this was written on my phone on trains while travelling. Some of it was written on Sunday night, with my laptop lying to me and saying it was only just gone 8pm, when actually it was 9pm. Here. Obviously. It was 8pm in the UK, and in (some parts of??) Portugal (huh, who Read More

Ponderings after attending the Bologna Children’s Book Fair

Some thoughts following attending the Bologna Children’s Book Fair for (part of) a day. Read More

Week 1 of my 5-week interrailing trip round Europe

End of first week – Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich Monday Train to London – fine (nice to get an early one without paying a small fortune) Waiting a lot at St Pancras as vey early (better early than late). Bought a book and some snacks. Eurostar to Amsterdam. Absolutely fine. Fell asleep and completely missed going Read More

One week to go

Getting ready to go on a 5-week interrailing trip around Europe Read More

Illustration for a blog post on a big European train adventure, including stylised sea, mountains, trees, seaside town and a train running through, with words 'European train adventure'. Illustrated by Tasha Goddard.

Planning a big European train adventure

In which I talk about my plan to interrail for a month to celebrate turning fifty (next year). Read More

Illustration of the author (Tasha Goddard) exploring a city at night time, with backpack, suitcase and passport.

2022 Word for the year

It’s hard to go into 2022 with a positive attitude when the Covid numbers here are scarily high: And when some of those closest to me are going through really shitty times. But… I’m an optimist and so I am going to do my utmost to come down on the side of hope and see Read More

Travelling while vegetarian

And here’s Part 4 of my trip review. Part 1 was about holidaying with srprs.me, Part 2Part 2 was about holidaying alone and Part 3Part 3 was all about Malaga. This part is about travelling as a (lifelong) vegetarian. This was by far the most challenging aspect of the trip and the single thing that Read More

Visiting Malaga

Part 3 of my trip review. Part 1 was about holidaying via srprs.me and Part 2 was about holidaying solo. This one’s all about Malaga, and Part 4 is about travelling as a vegetarian. Well, that was an eye-opener and a definite benefit of using srprs.me! I would never ever have a booked a holiday Read More

Holidaying solo

Welcome to Part 2 of my trip review (and sorry it’s taking me so long to write it all up – somehow that vision of being a travel blogger jetting off to all corners (hmm, there aren’t actually any corners on a globe, are there?) of the Earth is fading slightly – probably should have Read More

Travelling with Srprs.me

I’d decided around Easter time that I wanted to go away for a city break in Europe on my own some time soon. I’d been doing a lot of introspective thinking/searching/pondering, while and after reading Beth Kempton’s Freedom Seeker (highly recommend it, by the way). And I’d realised that I’d never gone on holiday on Read More