Cairo, Egypt. This had been a bucket list destination for a very long time and it did not disappoint. We spent a long weekend here, 3 nights in 3 different hotels to make the most of each place we wanted to visit. The late evening arrival made the airport hotel the perfect first stop to get straight to bed after our 5 hour fight and be…
Architecture of Rotterdam
Rotterdam, The Netherlands. A very quick 35 minute flight from London got us to the second largest city in Holland seamlessly and before we knew it we were settled in our Hotel room with a nice cup of tea looking forward to our weekend ahead. The first thing that became apparent when we began walking around the wide streets of the city is the weird and…
Grand Park Hotel
Zagreb, Croatia. British Airways haven’t quite got back up to speed yet following the lifting of lockdown restrictions and as such our plane was over 2 hours delayed leaving Heathrow, but with lots of other flights being cancelled altogether, we breathed a big sigh of relief when we finally got onboard and into the air. Thankfully we didn’t plan to do anything on our late afternoon…
Snowdonia
Snowdonia, Wales. With our American road trip postponed once again due to the pandemic, we all found ourselves with time off work in the diary but no planned place to go. Last minute searching, this time a bit closer to home, we found ourselves drawn to North Wales with it’s dramatic landscapes and group activities in abundance and still within a driveable distance from home, Sorted!…
Skye’s The Limit
The Isle of Skye, Scotland. This has been on my list of places to visit for a long time and what better time to do it than a global pandemic! With a much quieter than usual tourist scene and without the need for all the pre-departure and arrival Covid testing (like we’d experienced on our recent travels to Gibraltar), it made now a great time to…
Bavarian Alps
Bavaria, Germany. Every trip we’ve managed to go on this year since the pandemic started has felt even more special than usual and brought a new found appreciation for what we’ve been able to do in the years before and none more so than when we landed in Munich to begin our weekend road trip in the Bavarian Alps. A couple of hours driving south, nearly…
Phoenix City
Warsaw, Poland. After devastating sieges and battles during the second world war, 85% of Warsaw’s buildings were completely destroyed and left in ruins. Later they were re-built & reconstructed to the capital’s former glory which gained it the nickname of Phoenix City and is now a UNESCO world heritage site. Cornavirus has meant that our trips this year have been very limited but in between the…
Thunder in Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, Greece. This was our first trip abroad following the easing of travel restrictions since the corona virus pandemic forced the country into a full scale lock down, and it could not have come soon enough! So with a new found appreciation for normally being able to travel as much as we do, it felt great to get back on a plane, even with a few…
Gorges du Verdon
Marseille, France. Inspired by some amazing photos we’d seen in a coffee table travel book by Lonely Planet that I’d been gifted, we made plans to visit and see this beautiful place with our own eyes. Packed into another weekend trip, we did our all too familiar routine, heading to the airport straight from work to catch a flight on Friday night, a sleep in the…
Driving to San Marino
Bologna, Ravenna and San Marino, Italy. Arriving on a Friday night the first stop was the airport hotel to get a good night sleep before what turned out to be an excellent weekend road trip. First stop was Ravenna, full of history and famous for it’s beautiful mosaics it sits just about halfway between Bologna and San Marino making it the perfect place to spend the…
Underground in Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark. Two weeks earlier we thought we were headed to Corsica but thanks to a British Airways pilot strike and our flights cancelled we suddenly had an empty weekend to fill. Copenhagen came up cheapest and as we’d only previously been in the bitter winter we were looking forward to a summer visit where things were actually open. First stop was the Cisterns, a subterranean…
Flame Towers
Baku, Azerbaijan. See all the photos from our trip below.