Finland to Italy Itinerary – Our Europe Trip Summer 2018

After having an amazing summer last year travelling around Europe, we decided to do the same thing this summer. This trip was a little longer in time and we managed to visit even more locations which were on our bucket lists. Over the next few weeks (possibly months) I’ll be updating this page with links to posts about our adventures. Below is a brief breakdown of our route and how we got between the different locations. London, England Flight Helsinki,…

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Our Swansea Bay, Mumbles and the Gower Peninsula Trip

A couple of weekends ago, Vicky and I took a trip up to the Gower Peninsula, a short drive from Swansea City Centre, located in Swansea Bay. We had heard that it was a little like Cornwall, with its limestone cliffs and beautiful, sandy beaches and we were absolutely blown away by how gorgeous this part of the country really is. Set in the South of Wales, this is an area of natural beauty, which begins at the cute seaside…

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Torbay Airshow 2018 Gallery

Torbay Airshow was on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd of June this year. I’ve always had an interest in history but after our trips to Krakow in Poland and Berlin in Germany I’ve developed an interest in the Second World War. We’ve since visited amazing museums like the Churchill War Rooms and The Imperial War Museum in London which have further fanned the flames of my intrigue. I’ve been reading a lot of books and watching a lot of documentaries…

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Norway to Croatia Itinerary – Our Europe Trip Summer 2017

  Last year, during the summer Vicky and I went on an epic trip across Europe from Bergen in Norway all the way to Dubrovnik in Croatia. We’ve wrote about lots of the destinations when we came back but I never actually wrote about our route or how we got from place to place. This page will hopefully prove useful for anyone planning a similar journey. I’ve started by writing out where we went and how we travelled between the…

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Does Craghoppers’ Nosilife Fabric Work And Stop Mosquito Bites?

While visiting hot and humid countries around the world, you can have the best experiences ruined by mosquitoes and the diseases they carry. When we travelled to Vietnam, although there wasn’t the risk of the deadly malaria at that time and at the locations visited, we could have still got Dengue Fever and Japanese Encephalitis. Unlike Malaria, which is common in more rural areas, Dengue Fever, transmitted by mosquitoes, can be spread in urban areas all over South East Asia.…

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