I recently spent a week in Georgia, a country smaller than Scotland, but with a set of traditions and sense of cultural heritage just as strong. I hadn't known what to expect from my visit to this ex-Soviet state, nestled below the Caucasian mountains, and it was with a total lack of prior knowledge about …
{Also featured on my 2nd blog, Russia Revisited} I have been converted. Having visited Moscow on several occasions when I lived in nearby Tver, I never felt particularly drawn to the city. I tried to love it, but each time I went I was let down. Face-control snobbery, expensive food, too big to properly get …
The end of the summer. One last adventure before going back to real-ish life. My friend and I had said for a while that we would go away together. Morocco, Copenhagen, Budapest, beach holiday, city break? We were pretty open about where to go, but eventually decided on the not-so-distant - but still quirky enough and warm …
Word and Whimsy 