It was that time of year again, to celebrate Saint Patricks Day - and what better way to commemorate the occasion then by travelling to Ireland! To the beautiful county of Cork, which is famous for the Blarney Stone (the story goes if you kiss it, it will bring you a life long love). Also Cobh, the port which was the last stop of the Titanic, before departing on its fated journey. Firstly let me rewind back a week before this. I was with my friend Adelaide - who...

To escape the English snowy winter I was bound for Cairo, the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa. Struggling with my huge bag I got on the train to get to Heathrow, when a homeless looking woman sat beside me with 4 grocery bags filled with ripped newspaper. She proceeded to rip up seemingly interesting/colourful bits out of the newspaper and rub them on her skin and sniff them before placing it in the plastic bags. Once they were ...

Scotland the home to the likes of Gerald Butler, Sean Connery and the one and only Fat b****** off Austin Powers (Get in my beeelllly!) and where I was heading to say goodbye to 2011 and celebrate the start of 2012 - Edinburgh to be exact. The capital city of Scotland and the home of the annual Hogmanay celebration. It all started after a big night pre-celebrating in Leicester Square in London - the night before an 8 hour bus trip to Edinburgh - not a smart move...

Hola! Madrid, Spain's capital city - population of around 6 million, the 22nd most expensive city in the world. Famous for Reale Madrid football team, tapa's, sangria, and home of the flamenco - and where I happened to be this weekend just been. Look at me writing my blog a few days after i got back, not 2 months after, things are looking up.Amongst the excitement of travelling to this beautiful city we did not think through the time when booking our flights, hav...

Guten tag to Oktoberfest Munich & to Europe's Premier Beer Festival! 17 days, 6.5 million litres of beer, nearly 7 million visitors. If you do the maths you'll see that this year, 2011, is the 201st year since it all began. During that time, the event has only been cancelled 24 times. The Bavarian beer is brewed especially for Oktoberfest and has no perservatives, the word on the street is that you do not get hangovers from it but I can well and truely confir...