Destinations

If you're in need of a festive fix but don't fancy battling the crowds, you might want to consider an alternative wintry break.  Thankfully, Europe is full of hidden gems; from quaint medieval towns with...

If you go down to the woods today you're sure of a big surprise... Well, if you head down to Faskally Woods this Autumn, that's definitely going to be the case. Every year, Scotland's Perthshire town of...

Scotland's distilleries make up an important part of the country's culture.  That's not just because us Celts enjoy a dram, but because whisky production has been an important part of Scotland's economy for...

Having worked for one of Scotland's largest theatre companies for the last four years, I think it's pretty safe to say that I've got a bit of a thing for performance venues.  I love the history that comes...

Perched on the edge of Lake Geneva lies the Swiss town of Montreux.  It's somewhere I first visited at the age of sixteen whilst on a Geography trip around Europe with my school, and it's somewhere I've...

Here's a fun fact for you: Did you know that Ghent was once the second wealthiest city in Europe, after Paris?  Nope, me neither. Despite being one of the largest cities in Belgium and less than an hour...

Disclaimer alert; I haven't spent nearly enough time in Boston.  Not half as much as I'd like to, anyway.  It's a city I passed through towards the end of my travels in 2013, en route to New York.  I...

It was 4am. I was woken by a crack, piercing and metallic. My eyes were slow to adjust to the darkness. Fatigue had left me disorientated, and for a moment, I struggled to remember where I was. Lightening...

Imagine a land of dark, craggy peaks and tumbling waterfalls.  A land carved by myth and legend, spun by fairy tales and marked by bloody clan battles.  Imagine moody moors and misty glens, purple fields and...

I'm a big fan of Newcastle.  I'm not sure whether it's the Geordie accent, the funky bridges, or the fact that every drink order at the bar is met with the words "is that a single or a double?", but every...