January 23, 2021So 2020 is finally over, but it’s not all been bad considering the endless lockdowns and travel restrictions. Here’s my story of 2020 whilst attempting not to mention the C-word. January – Vilnius A great start to the year with a long weekend trip to Vilnius in Lithuania. Although there was no snow, the Christmas […]
January 10, 2020Another bumper year for travel and life goals this year. My annual travel stats from TripIt and Google Maps tell me I’ve visited 10 different countries, 52 cities and travelled almost twice around the world in distance. Not quite as far as last year, but still pretty impressive! My business continues to do well and […]
April 30, 2017With Eurovision just around the corner, if you’re lucky enough to be coming to Kyiv, Ukraine you’ll be looking for things to do whilst here. Searching on other sites for things to do mostly comes back with a list of the many wonderful churches of Kyiv (which you shouldn’t miss), but here’s my alternative list […]
September 4, 2016As many of you will know from my previous posts, I like to travel to Ukraine in any season of the year from the freezing winters to the scorching summers. For 6 weeks of this past Summer, I rented an apartment in Kiev again to escape the unpredictableness of the British summer. For a week […]
April 3, 2015On 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 […]
December 12, 2014After 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 […]
