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Ironically the single, best individual day of our French road trip, was in Spain, when we travelled through the Pyrenees from France’s seaside city of Biarritz to our planned destination of Alquezar, a medieval village in the mountainous Huesca Province. The journey follows a number of fascinating and unexpected contrasts along pristine and empty roads, through landscapes […]
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Our visit to Switzerland was part of a road trip where we arrive from lake Como in the Italian Alps before forwarding on to Chamonix and the French Alps. In Switzerland we do rush through other attractions along the way including Titlis and Brunni in Engelberg, but our main attraction was the Jungfrau region where
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Through the years I’ve had my fair share of road trip screw ups. My car engine once exploded and I had my car scrapped in the middle of the Pyrenees. I once froze the entire windscreen washing system of a rental car when I filled it with normal water during -16’c temperatures in the Czech Republic.
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I’ve travelled from Moscow Airport to City Centre by train twice now, only to return again just an hour or two later. Both times have been during stopovers at Moscow airport, travelling between Europe and Asia, where I had just enough time to squeeze in the city centre attractions and Red Square before my next flight. It
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As a Northern Irish travel blogger I often get asked “where is the best destination you have celebrated Saint Patrick’s day”. This is a hard question for me given that I have never in my life celebrated it. I actually live in a part of Northern Ireland which is not really Irish at all. Saint
Saint Patrick’s Day in Downpatrick (N. Ireland) Read More »
Overland travel tends to get flack these days because of how expensive it is when compared to low cost carriers. For most it is understandable but, at the same time, the cheapness of low cost carriers can be misleading. We found this not so long ago when travelling between London and Paris where we are given
London to Paris: Eurostar vs Low Cost Airlines Read More »
It feels wrong to have a coastal road trip in Ireland without a visit to the Causeway Coastal Route and the iconic Giant’s Causeway. But, given the different countries on the island, different tourist boards and the technicality that the Causeway Coast isn’t actually on the Atlantic coast (it’s on the Irish Sea) this area has
The Extended Wild Atlantic Way (Ireland) Read More »
The excursion to Rathlin Island, and back, can sound like a full day trip, but it can also easily be added to a full days itinerary along the Causeway Coast. On our visit, we start with breakfast on Belfast’s Laganside, we forward to Ballycastle via the Dark Hedges, and then travel to Rathlin Island from the Ballycastle
Views Over Rathlin Island (Northern Ireland) Read More »
We opt for a winter road trip over trains and planes for this adventurer, as it is almost the only feasible option. For winter city breaks we’d easily drop into any city on budget flights, but to explore the hills and mountains, and to call in to pokey European villages, a winter road trip is
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Leaving Bojnice, a small town in central Slovakia, we next arrive to Budapest in Hungary. This would be our third country of our winter road trip and for me it would be my only night off before driving south to the borders of Croatia. To make our visit to Budapest easier we decide to stay
Budapest Underground: The World’s Shittiest Metro System Read More »
