Our last day in Venice didn’t quite start as peacefully as the one before. When travelling, I often get a bit confused with time zones, and I hadn’t yet manually changed my watch. To keep things simple, I’d also left my phone on airplane mode. You can imagine David’s surprise when I suddenly shot out…

​We decided to take full advantage of a lazy morning, enjoying the luxury of not needing to rush anywhere. However, the quiet was suddenly broken by a rather startling knock at the front door. We weren’t expecting anyone at all, least of all the dustman who had come by to collect the rubbish! It is…

We are staying in a cute little flat in the Castello area, which is about a thirty-minute amble from the main square. As we walked along the side of the canals, crossing many bridges as we went, we felt as though we were moving through the city almost unnoticed. It was a gentle start to…

If you’d asked me during the planning stages what the most “unexpectedly exciting” part of the journey to Venice would be, I don’t think I could have anticipated it would be Passport Control. The planning is always half the fun – sketching out routes and waiting for booking dates – but sometimes the reality is…

As a 50th birthday treat, I was given a weekend away in Bath – a perfect little escape for an October weekend. We set off on Saturday morning and stopped at Avebury on the way down. We’ve been before and remembered it as a nice little place to stretch our legs. Avebury is one of…

So long Copenhagen.What a delightful, clean city full of charm and charisma. This was the start of our return journey – leaving Copenhagen train station to head for Berlin, then picking up the sleeper train to Brussels and arriving just in time to take the Eurostar back to the UK. The journey from Copenhagen went…

Our apartment is on the ground floor of a six-storey building – no lugging bags up endless stairs. It’s neatly placed equidistant between two metro stations, giving us options each time we head out to explore. This is also the first time we’ve stayed somewhere with a bed to convert – a little novelty for…

We arrived at our last stop – Copenhagen. The city greets us with colour and energy at every corner. It feels both old and new – rebuilt through the centuries yet still fresh and alive. There’s a sense of care here too. Copenhagen is a city that takes the environment seriously, weaving cycling, green spaces…

We left our flat this morning after an easy checkout and as we stepped outside, we noticed a small brass square set into the pavement. It stopped us in our tracks. These are the markers that remember Holocaust victims – placed where they once lived. The family linked to our apartment were taken and died…

Arriving at our apartment in Oslo was easy. We walked from the train station along clean, well-signposted roads with smart, sharp-lined buildings. We found the apartment quickly and used the self check-in to be granted two key cards. Finding the actual room was trickier, but once we realised it was a basement apartment, all was…