One of the reasons I love Paris so much, is for how elegant and spacious it feels, despite being a huge capital city. Compared to places like New York and London that are so crammed in, the centre of Paris has sweeping boulevards, a beautiful symmetry, that fabulous layout spanning off from the ...
The independent state of Vatican City is essentially the smallest country in the world. Within the state borders you can find some of the most beautiful architecture, including St Peter’s square and St Peter’s basilica, ancient history, the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, ...
The Keukenhof Gardens in Lisse, Holland may be closed now for another year, but I wanted to share some of my photos from when I visit earlier this month. This was a work trip, so the majority of what I was doing there was for work, however I did manage to get some snaps of my favourite bits of ...
Visiting the Colosseum was top of my list for my first visit to Rome, and it was one of the only things I researched a bit before our visit. Naturally popular tourist attractions are notorious for needing to pre book, and although you can go along to see it from the outside, I wanted to make ...
As a first timer visiting Rome this year, I had high hopes for the Italian capital after I got a taste for Italy in Florence last September. As always when visiting somewhere new, I had some specifics in mind that I wanted to see and do – the Colosseum, the Trevi fountain, sample the ...
When we decided to get away for a night over Easter weekend, Edinburgh was a pretty good last minute choice. A two hour drive away, and somewhere we hadn’t been to for a while it was due a visit. After I discovered the Principal Hotel chain last year, I really wanted to stay in one of ...