Bite-sized breaks in various cities, where I will attempt to not get distracted by things in other cities, regardless of how shiny they are.
The Stories
🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland 2026
Zurich, Switzerland: Part 1
I’m in a lot of travel groups on Facebook and every now and then someone posts in a panic because they accidentally booked the wrong dates for their flights and I was always like, ha, idiot, how the fuck do you even do that?…
Zurich, Switzerland: Part 2
We awoke quite refreshed after a cracking sleep made possible with a fan in the room. Glorious, glorious cool air blasting on us throughout the night. They even provided ear plugs so we could sleep through the street noise. Everything you need to sleep…
🇩🇪 Cologne, Germany 2026
Cologne & Around – Aachen & The Three Country Border
I had a bit of time off work at the same time as a mate, Lydi, was back in Europe after a long absence which makes it sound like she was in prison. She wasn’t, she was overseas. So I thought, “Why not fuck…
Cologne & Around – Schloss Drachenburg & Linz Am Rhein
Schloss Drachenburg is an easy train ride from Cologne so it’d be rude not to check it out. Well, I say a train ride, you get off at Königswinter then it’s up to you whether your wallet or your calf muscles take the hit…
Cologne & Around – Actual Köln, Food & Kölsch
Cologne has got an interesting beer culture which I didn’t know about until after I’d thrown money at the mighty Ryanair for the privilege of cramming myself into one of their fine pressurised metal tubes for just over an hour. If I’d have known…
🇩🇪 Munich, Germany 2025
Munich, Germany – Markets & Food
Tarrant had had her little heart set on visiting some actual, proper German Christmas markets for bloody ages, so this year off we fucked to Munich in order to consume our body weight in Bratwurst. I wasn’t too keen on the idea of Christmas…
Munich, Germany – General Tourist Stuff
BMW Museum & BMW Welt Neither of us are particularly into cars but visiting the BMW Museum is kind of The Done Thing™ so we duly took the U-Bahn up to Olympiazentrum to put lots of vehicles into our eyeholes. BMW Welt is just…
Bratislava, Slovakia 2025
Bratislava, Slovakia
Tarrant lost her penknife weeks ago. We had no idea where it might have been. She’d periodically turn the house upside-down looking for it to no avail, it was quite the mystery. Of course Manchester airport terminal 3 security had…
Seville & Córdoba, Spain 2025
Seville (& Córdoba), Spain, Part 1
Alright, we’re doing it, we’re going back to Spain despite the fact last time we went if it could go tits up it very much did go tits up culminating in Tarrant stacking it off a segway in spectacular fashion and shattering her tibial…
Seville (& Córdoba), Spain, Part 2
You have to book your tickets for the Real Alcázar quite far in advance if you want to be fussy about when you want to go and I would highly recommend you go as early as you can unless you’re really quite fond of…
Seville (& Córdoba), Spain, Part 3
When I was researching this trip I discovered that Córdoba is less than an hour away by train. When we talked about taking city breaks to assist with my mental health not taking an utter nose dive on account of the lack of long…
Oslo, Norway 2024
Oslo, Norway
The decision to fuck off to Oslo during The Void, you know, that weird vortex between Christmas and New Year which usually consists entirely of leftovers and cheese, was a spontaneous one. I was chatting to a friend who lives…
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