Brighton and Portsmouth Mum, Dad and I picked up our rental car at Heathrow airport and immediately jumped on the M25 to get out of London, heading down south to Brighton. We arrived at this famously popular beachside town around 1pm and immediately headed to the pier. Unfortunately, Brighton in winter on a freezing, wet and windy day isn't a pleasant experience. We wandered the pier, well were nearly blown off the pier and tried to think warm thoug...

Greenwich We decided to head out to Greenwich for half a day, and lucky for us, chose a lovely blue-skied day to do so. Mum, Dad and I boarded a ferry for the journey up the Thames at 10am and arrived in Greenwich about an hour later. The journey up was really good, getting to see London sights from the river. It was good getting to go under the Tower Bridge, and to see the Tower of London, London Eye etc from a different angle. The first thing that ...

After just over half a day bus journey between Munich and Hopfgarten, we arrived in time for dinner. Hopfgarten is a very popular skiing village during the winter months, but much quieter at other times of the year. We were staying right opposite the wood mill, about 15 minutes walk from the centre of town. Ali, our tour leader decided that we would have a themed party that night of postbox, whereby everyone had to wear a number and we'd write messages to each...

Emma and I boarded our British Airways flight, bound for Frankfurt at Heathrow and just over an hour later, were touching down at Frankfurt au main airport. By the time we'd worked out the train system and checked into our hotel (located opposite the main train station and a ten minute stroll to the centre of town) it was 3pm ish so we immediately headed out into the centre of town. We decided to do a museum that afternoon and managed to spend just over an hour...

I headed over to Brugge for the weekend via a travel company called Tracks. The trip got off to a bad start due to our bus being vandalised, finding a replacement bus, changing buses halfway to Dover and a girl on the tour leaving her passport on the other bus. It didn't really matter as we arrived in Brugge early in the afternoon. With three hours free to explore the city before being taken to our hostel, I teamed up with South African Kim and American Kate w...