Dear All Greetings, and a Happy New Year to all reading this! May it be filled with lots of new adventures and travels for the year ahead! I am writing another couple of blog entries to relate another mini trip I took over the Christmas holidays, this one after Christmas and around the New Year itself. After a lovely little time in the tiny principality and micro-state of Europe, Monaco, and the Cote d'Azur of France, I was heading off this time for another lovely little time in the Tyrolean Alps of Austria and another tiny principality and micro-state of Europe, Liechtenstein! My theme for my winter travels is covering the micro-states of Europe, as well as aiming to visit every European country - not long to go now! Thus, on New Year's Eve itself, I ... read more

Dear All Greetings! It doesn't feel too long ago since I was last travelling, and now I'm back again after a lovely little mini pre-Christmas break, to visit my 85th country. After returning from Scandinavia in August, I realised that I only have 10 countries to go before I can say I've done Europe! Three of these countries actually belong to the little group known as the six "micro-states" of Europe - I've already been to Malta, the Vatican City and Andorra, and thus for my following three mini-trips, I planned to cover the remaining three. First up was Monaco, and just as the Christmas holidays began, I was packing my bag and heading for four nights to the south of France. On the Saturday, I flew from London Gatwick to lovely Nice Cote d'Azur airport, ... read more

Dear All Greetings, in my penultimate entry on my amazing travels through Nordic lands this last summer. I believe I last wrote after having really enjoyed my time exploring the off-beat lands of the Westfjords. In this one I write about my time in the really quite remarkable Snæfellsnes peninsula - this was another wonderful place. I felt a cool vibe as soon as arrived in this unique part of Iceland. The Snæfellsnes peninsula is a long piece of land extending around fifty miles off the west side of mainland Iceland, with a backbone of a mountainous range of peaks, culminating in the amazing, snow- and glacier-covered dormant volcano of Snæfellsjökull on its westernmost tip - the place was gorgeous. I was particularly excited to be there as it is the location of the journey to ... read more

Dear All Greetings once more from my Nordic travels this summer. I am very much settled back in the UK now, but I am continuing to publish my blog entries after an epic summer adventure in northern lands. This entry relates my further adventures in northern Iceland, after having already seen a blue whale, mind-blowing rock formations and volcanic lunar-like landscapes. It was pretty amazing so far, and it continued to be. I was particularly excited waking up this Tuesday morning in the middle of August, as my driving was to take me to the city of Akureyri (pronounced "Aku-weh-ree"), Iceland's second largest. It had been a while since I was in a large urban area - Torshavn back on the Faroe Islands was probably my most recent sizeable one a week earlier, but at 13,000 ... read more

Dear All This blog entry sends greetings from Iceland! When I arrived in this amazing country, I couldn't quite believe I was there. It is one of those mythical places you often read or hear about, but never imagine being able to visit. I felt the same about Japan, the Galapagos Islands, and now this remarkable island! I had it very much confirmed during my first few days, even hours there, that it is indeed a stunning and beautiful place. I loved my first few days there, and was so excited to explore more! In my last blog entry, I was drying off in my very cosy Air BnB in Hoyvík, back in the Faroe Islands, with the central heating on full blast drying off everything I was wearing and carrying on that soggy day. I ... read more