Category: Gadding about

A Race Against Quarantine

Earlier this summer, the message was clear, wasn’t it?! “Boost the economy, have a holiday!” trilled the headlines, as the government promoted air bridges between the UK and a host of overseas destinations. After months of lockdown-induced damage to the nation’s finances, months of staring at the walls of our own houses,...

The Best of the Minibreaks: Grenoble, France

Facebook Memories tell me that today marks two full years since my Skyscanner whims took my husband and me on a pair of £27 return Ryanair flights from Stansted to Grenoble, in France, a city which sits on the very edge of the Alps. “It’s an industrial sort of...

Gdansk for the Memories

It was a work friend who put me on to Poland as a holiday destination, back in 2018. She’s Polish, and like lots of other people she waxed lyrical about Krakow. She explained how newly easy it was to get there with Wizz Air’s new regular Poland-Yorkshire flight route....

Bratislava, Vienna, and trains

Almost a whole year ago, now, but it feels longer because the world was so different then. Another SkyScanner search – and bargain flights, this time, to Bratislava. Geography and I are very much not natural companions, to the point it’s a running joke within my family, so I...

Three days in Seville

I’m not going to go all out and say I enjoy self-flagellation, but for some reason I seem to be spending a lot of time at the moment torturing myself with thoughts of holidays. Not so much the cancelled ones that I know we won’t get this year (although,...