Radisson Blu Resort – Hotel Review in Bukovel, Ukraine

View from Radisson Blu, Bukovel February 3, 2016

When you think of hotels in Ukraine, you’d be forgiven for imagining them all to be in soviet styling with dated décor and poor service. Whilst it’s true that in almost every city in Ukraine there is at least one such a hotel, there are also some real gems to discover such as Radomysl Castle […]

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Year in Review – All the best things from 2015

Radomyshl Castle January 5, 2016

As everyone else in the UK is going back to work this week, I’m here in another cool apartment (with a jacuzzi under the bed!) in Kiev, Ukraine writing my annual year in review post, well my second at least. This year I’ve travelled to less places than last year, however I’ve still managed to […]

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How I Built… East Riding College

May 27, 2015

No, I didn’t build the actual college, however continuing in my series of How I Built… articles about my work, I’ve been working with East Riding College to launch their new web site. I inherited this client after the liquidation of my previous employer Streamline Media in 2011 and continue to have a close working […]

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My journey so far mapped on Google Earth

My Journey So Far April 3, 2015

On my quest for all things travel and technology, I decided on this rainy Good Friday to take some time out and have a look at where I’ve been over the past 2 years. The result of this is the map above or you can view a bigger version with labels here. While many people […]

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How I Built… Boutique & Breakfast

January 12, 2015

After writing about nothing but Travel for the past 5 months, it’s about time I talked about my work and put the “code” into “Travel & Code”. For those of you that don’t know, I’m a freelance web developer working 50:50 from home and a hot desk in the C4DI co-working space in Hull. After […]

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Year in Review – What I remember from 2014

December 31, 2014

Twas the night before Christmas New Year, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. As I’m sat here in this cosy apartment for New Year in Copenhagen, I’ve been thinking about the past year and all the amazing places I’ve been, seen and things I’ve done. I’ve spent […]

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Chernobyl – Nuclear Tourism

December 12, 2014

After visiting Ukraine 4 or 5 times previously I had already seen the most interesting cities and places of interest. All that was left was the east which is currently under a territorial dispute and Chernobyl, the site of the nuclear disaster in 1986. I’d read previously in Dom Joly’s Dark Tourist book about his […]

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Amsterdam – In a trance

September 17, 2014

It was late January when I decided I wanted to do something different for my birthday, so I asked my friend if she wanted to go with me to Amsterdam to help me celebrate. February soon came and we met each other at the airport in Amsterdam on the 14th of February of all days. […]

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Kyiv – A village within a city

August 13, 2014

I’ve been to Kyiv before, but that was two years ago. Since then, it’s all kicked off in the country and an uprising began in November 2013 to change the situation and dethrone the corrupt government. Lots of terrible deaths happened here as you’ll have witnessed on the news and are still ongoing in the […]

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Magaluf – Not all bad

August 10, 2014

I’m usually a fan of city breaks rather than lazing about on the beach, however it was summer and I’d already had my fair share of city breaks already this year after visiting Amsterdam, Paris and Barcelona among others so I decided to try something different and visit Majorca. I went many years ago as […]

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