Meanwhile….

Whilst I am trying my best to get up to date with my blog posts, I am simultaneously planning our amazing travel plans for the coming year, so please forgive my tardiness with some travel posts from last year! We have a very exciting six months of travelling ahead before we will be packing up our…

10 Things to See and Do in Budapest

We spent a lot of our time in Budapest just wandering around exploring the city, looking at beautiful buildings, statues and views. A few things I would recommend, many are “must dos” and some are little gems we stumbled upon ourselves. As I progressed with this post I’ve realised I have bitten off more than I…

Copper Horsemen and Fairytale Castles

One fine autumnal day in Budapest, we caught the quaint Budapest underground up Andrassy Avenue to Heroes’ Square or Hosok Tere as it’s known in Hungarian. Once a site of Soviet Oppression, now a beautiful sprawling square surrounded by statues of Hungary’s forefathers. Standing in the middle are the Magyar chieftains who first settled in the Carpathian Basin. The…

Budapest Wandering Mark III

I have a problem! Every time I try to write this post, it grows and grows and grows and eventually I realise I have written enough content about each given place to fit a post all of its own! This has happened twice now, and it’s happening again! Will I ever finish this post?!

Exploring the banks of Buda

On the “Buda” side of the river lies Buda Castle, Matthias Church and Fisherman’s Bastion, collectively referred to as castle hill. In my pre-trip research I read that the views from Fisherman’s Bastion could not be beaten, so off we went. We went in a strange roundabout direction after catching the underground and popping up…

Széchenyi Baths Budapest

One of the things Budapest is known for is it’s many elegant thermal baths, and I had grand ideas of bath hopping our way around the city. But after spending HOURS in the Széchenyi Baths, Will said he was all “bathed out”. And in all honesty, we did spend hours lingering and lounging in the pools…

Budapest: St Stephen’s Basilica

For some reason it always takes me by surprise when a cathedral is “not that old” in my mind, which of course means it’s only 100 or 200 years old. The architecture is distinctly different, airy, light, romantic domes instead of imposing spires more palatial than older more gothic churches and cathedrals like the Notre Dame or Winchester…

Autumn Getaway in Budapest

Okay, so I have been rather slack of late with posting, losing my phone whilst in Budapest certainly didn’t help – thank goodness for icloud. So forgive me, I know it is now winter and rapidly approaching Christmas even! We spent four wonderful days exploring Budapest at the end of October. A Seriously beautiful city that…

We found {Mediterranean} Paradise

Finally weather and warmth were on our side and we decided to check out a nearby cove that looked stunning. Calo des Moros was a little tricky to find, but boy was it worth it! The route to get there, once we found it, was a dry and dusty path followed by a steep and…

A Wonderful Day in Mallorca

On our first full day in Mallorca, the weather forecast to be overcast with a chance of rain, so we decided instead of hitting the beach, to explore a little more of the island and went into the mountains. We aimed for the cute mountain village of Fonalutx. From our hotel at Cala Mondrago, the…

A lake at the top of the Mountains

Oeschinensee is a picturesque alpine lake hidden at the top of the mountains, and one of the largest alpine lakes in Switzerland. The day we visited it was quite cloudy, and we almost called off going due to the weather thinking there would be a heavy cloud sitting on top of the alps, making it rather…

Coming Soon… A Weekend in Mallorca