Here’s Our Complete Guide To A Lake Como from Milan Day Trip

Published on: 18/02/202123/02/2021 by Nic Hilditch-Short 27 Comments

After spending a few days exploring the effortlessly elegant city of Milan we were keen to get out of the crowded streets and into the surrounding countryside and searched for day trips to Lake Como from Milan. One of the places we had always dreamt of visiting was Lake Como and the pastel coloured towns

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Here’s Our Complete Guide To A 2 day Berlin Itinerary. 48 Hours In The Incredible German Capital.

Published on: 12/01/202121/01/2021 by Nic Hilditch-Short 3 Comments

Berlin had been on our radars for as long as I can remember and despite having family in Germany, making several trips to Hamburg and loving the country, we hadn’t managed to get around to it. When we decided to make a trip home for Christmas from Australia we decided to split the trip there

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2 days in Milan Itinerary: A Complete Guide To A weekend in Milan, Italy

Published on: 15/12/202017/02/2021 by Nic Hilditch-Short 14 Comments

Milan is somewhere that often gets overlooked when people plan a trip to Italy, it’s often described as boring and expensive and with so much else to see across the country it’s a shame it often goes unvisited. But with cheap flights available on budget airlines from the UK to Milan we chose it as

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Gothenburg In Winter: A Guide To Visiting This Cool Swedish City & What To See In Gothenburg

Published on: 26/11/202013/04/2021 by Nic Hilditch-Short 7 Comments

After spending around 2 years travelling around Southeast Asia and Australia we found ourselves back in Europe to visit family over the Christmas period a few years back. It wasn’t just a reverse culture shock but it was also a shock to the system to acclimatise to not only winter in Europe but in famously

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Delving into the post apocalyptic world of abandoned soviet Chernobyl and exploring the eerie streets of Pripyat.

Published on: 11/06/201929/10/2020 by Nic Hilditch-Short 64 Comments

For years now visiting Chernobyl and the post apocalyptic abandoned soviet town of Pripyat had been a dream. There is something eerily alluring about the idea of a town trapped in time, as the world has moved on this time capsule of the soviet era has been slowly crumbing. Twisting this once idealistic Utopian dream

A guide To Using The Train In Italy: How To Travel For Cheap and Like A Local!

Published on: 05/03/201929/10/2020 by Paul Short 9 Comments

As Italy was the first stop of our long term travels, we realised very quickly that many things stretched our tight budget. We spent a total of around 10-11 days travelling from Milan (with a day trip to lake Como) to Bolzano, from Bolzano to Badia and finally Badia down to Venice. So one thing

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Helsinki in a day. Exploring the wonderful capital of Finland after a ferry ride from Estonia!

Published on: 13/01/201928/10/2019 by Nic Hilditch-Short 6 Comments

Whilst staying in the stunning fairytale city of Tallinn in Estonia we couldn’t not notice the city’s proximity to Helsinki, the Finnish capital. Knowing how expensive Scandinavia is compared to the region of Eastern Europe we had been travelling within for 4 months we took the opportunity to head over for the first time on

Copenhagen, A Guide to the Beautiful Capital of Denmark On a Budget

Published on: 18/05/201827/09/2019 by Nic Hilditch-Short 4 Comments

In the dead of winter, returning home on a surprise mission for Christmas from the warmth of Australia, we found ourselves in Copenhagen (We look forward to returning in warmer weather!). A city we had longed to see and where at the time, no one knew we were!! It was bitterly cold and snow was

Why Switzerland is our ultimate destination! …almost!

Published on: 11/06/201707/09/2022 by Nic Hilditch-Short 3 Comments

Switzerland…the place we had the most amazing and life changing trip to over the summer. We absolutely fell in love with it and even decided that one day we just have to go and live there for a while! We kicked ourselves as to why we hadn’t made the trip earlier and nothing could have

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What to do in Bristol, the top attractions guide for a day in this lovely city!

Published on: 02/12/201605/09/2019 by Nic Hilditch-Short 6 Comments

So, we’ve been home from our European backpacking adventures for 3 months now before we set off on the 2nd of November for our Asia and Australian leg of our round the world tour. But we thought we would make the most of this time by seeing a little more of the UK. Having only

A guide to fairytale Tallinn, Estonia. The surprisingly Scandinavia Baltic capital!

Published on: 24/11/201628/06/2018 by Nic Hilditch-Short Comment

For anyone who has visited the capital cities of the Baltics you can’t help but feel the similarities and yet their own personal uniqueness, and everyone will undoubtedly have their favourite! For us there was something about the chocolate box cobbled streets of Tallinn, the pastel shades punctuated by the ancient churches, the mixture of

Guide to Riga, Latvia. The heart of the baltic states with beautiful folk culture!

Published on: 21/11/201628/06/2018 by Nic Hilditch-Short 12 Comments

Riga was a strange one for me, I had been due to visit a few years back with freinds when the Icelandic volcano blew up and ruined our plans!! For a long time I had wondered what I had missed out on and always dreamt of finally visiting! So here we were, in this wonderful,

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A guide to Vilnius, the small, friendly old capital of Lithuania and our first stop in the Baltic’s!

Published on: 18/11/201628/06/2018 by Nic Hilditch-Short 6 Comments

After our time travelling through the Balkans and the rest of Eastern Europe it was time to finally head into the Baltic States for the first time. What we found here was a completely different vibes with much more western and Scandinavian influences. With Lithuanian being our first stop and probably the most overlooked it

The awe inspiring and eerie Hill of Crosses, Lithuania!

Published on: 15/11/201627/09/2019 by Nic Hilditch-Short 2 Comments

Sitting seemingly in the middle of nowhere in the Lithuanian countryside is the mysterious Hill of Crosses. Over 100,000 crosses hit on this seemingly random mound that is a pilgrimage for christians from all over the world, as well as those looking for something strange, out of the ordinary and frankly quite eerie! Heading over

A guide to Kiev, the effortlessly cool Ukrainian capital that showed us a different side to this country!

Published on: 09/11/201629/10/2022 by Nic Hilditch-Short 6 Comments

Back in 2014 we made a crazy journey over from Poland into the at war Ukraine. Unsure what we might find we discovered a beautiful harsh country with vast contrasts between the emerging modern state and the weight of the soviet past. We vowed to return and to head to Kiev, the capital city everyone

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