They say it never rains, it pours, and it's certainly been like that this November with my travelling. Just three days after arriving back from Milan, I was on another after-work, budget, Ryanair flight to Bratislava, Slovakia. Davies and I must've arrived on the last plane to Bratislava, as the airport was completely empty. It was cold outside, shrouded in fog. We needed to find a ticket-machine to buy bus tickets, but none were to be found as the bus arrived. The driver points out a couple of machines that our eyes have missed before mercilessly leaving us behind. Grrrrr. Twenty minutes later we get on the next bus, rattling past IKEA and a big shopping mall into town. After some difficulty finding our tram at the main train station, we hop onto it where it ... read more

Can you see what I've done with the title here? Ah, creativity lull (or I've read too many British newspapers). Anyway, in terms of a city break, Budapest is simply awesome. As you will discover by reading on, this place has everything. As is worryingly becoming the norm before a holiday, I had so much going on that I had not really thought much about the holiday itself until I was actually on the plane after work on Thursday. I wasn't even excited until Davies and I touched down in Budapest, and realised we were in a completely different country. Hungarian as a language is weir- I mean, unique. It is not like any other European language so I could recognise no words or signage whatsoever except those taken from English. You know, words like "burger". ... read more

I've not done a huge amount of travel around this country that I live in so I decided to change that by taking a weekend trip to Bristol and Bath. It was a bit of a class trip as I was going with four friends I went to school with - Davies, Gkee and Kelley who have all appeared on this blog before, and another one of my old school friends Mitra. I had heard good things about Bristol - that it is a lively, modern city with a vibrant nightlife. On the way back from Bristol, we would stop by at the by-all-accounts-beautiful and much talked about tourist trap that is Bath. As per usual I was slightly hungover and in a rush to get to Paddington Station on Saturday morning and was sweating a ... read more

After a hiatus of a couple of months, it was time to continue my travels and next on the list was a lads' weekend in Krakow for the first May bank holiday weekend. Everyone I had spoken to about Krakow had only said good things about it, so I was looking forward to seeing if it would live up to the hype. The trip could not have got off to a worse start. It's Friday afternoon and a colleague of mine needs me to do a last minute quote for a huge customer (Microsoft no less) and I am the only person with the skillz to do it - and it needs doing before I can leave for the airport. I ended up leaving 15 minutes later than planned and arrived at Liverpool Street station with ... read more

It was weird being in the cold of London in the run-up to Christmas, as everyone was all about winter wonderland, mince pies and mulled wine. Then one (not-so) foggy Christmas Eve I boarded a flight to deliver presents to the most un-Christmas of places, Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. Christmas Day isn't even a public holiday here. And as opposed to the freezing Christmas temperatures in Europe, it was a rather balmy 25 degrees. When I arrived however, the desert sun was nowhere to be seen, as the whole city was, believe it or not, shrouded in fog! Maybe it really is Christmas. The first thing that struck me about Dubai was the incredible sight of the main highway, Sheik Zayed Road, slicing through a huge concentration of wall-to-wall skyscrapers. It looked like I ... read more