DAY ONE After a 5am start, it was a short four hour ride from St Petersburg to Moscow, on a train that looked more like the first class carriage of a plane! The wooden panelling, plush seating, carpeted floors…
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DAY ONE We arrived into Helsinki by means of a small ferry from Tallinn, which took just an hour and a half – one of the benefits of choosing a smaller boat! We were greeted at the port by…
DAY ONE We boarded an early coach from Latvia to Estonia, which delivered us to the cobbled streets of Tallinn early afternoon. A few minutes walk from the bus stop and we were soon checking in to our somewhat…
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TRAVEL DIARIES // VILNIUS [LITHUANIA] & RIGA [LATVIA]
To be honest, there’s not a lot to report back on from these two places!! So expect this to be a fairly short post 😛 DAY ONE We arrived in Vilnius early morning, dragging our bags for 15 long…
DAY ONE | EVENING We arrived into Warsaw from Krakow at 6.30pm and we were greeted on the train platform by Paula, our first ever Couchsurfing host! With Couchsurfing, people around the world offer up their couch or spare bedroom…
DAY ONE We arrived into Krakow at 7.30am, bleary eyed after our uncomfortable overnight train from Prague. It was a 15 minute walk to our accommodation (Shishkin Art Hostel) and luckily we were able to dump our things, shower and…
We arrived in Prague after a long eight hour train ride from Budapest. It was a daytime train, so we had a great window seat view of the rolling hills and local farms as we sped through the Slovakian…
After our crazy, long day of walking yesterday we woke up very achey this morning! After managing to tick off a lot of the main tourist attractions, we decided to have a more relaxing day today. First stop was…
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Step by step guide – how to travel from Santiago to Valparaiso
If you have more than a couple of days in Santiago, the nearby port city of Valparaiso is definitely worth a visit. Just 120km from Chile’s capital, this UNESCO World Heritage Site is a quirky collection of dilapidated buildings, rickety funiculars, graffitied alleyways and…
I’ve just got back from sunny Brno and had a great time! 🙂 There’s a lot to do in this small city and everything is super cheap, so it’s the perfect place for a weekend city break. Explore Brno’s…