Kovalam
The ‘Leela Hotel’ is part of a beautiful clifftop beach resort in Kovalam which is a small coastal town in the southern Indian state of Kerala, south of Thiruvananthapuram. We…
Helsinki – How to make the most of a two night trip to Finland’s capital city
Back in March 2018, we spent a couple of nights in the capital city of Finland; Helsinki. It’s a great place to visit. I’d love to go back as two…
Suomenlinna Island – Boat trip
If you find yourself in Helsinki you should really try and take a days boat trip to Suomenlinna Island. The island was built in the mid 18th century as a…
Vantaa to Lappeenranta (and back again) by train
We’d arranged to have one night in Vantaa (a suburb of Helsinki) as we knew we wouldn’t be getting there till after midnight. The next day we had to get…
Lappeenranta
After a one-night stop over in a suburb of Helsinki called Vantaa, we headed up to Lappeenranta, a city in South-Eastern Finland. This place is not on the usual European…
Scandinavia
The Trip Between March and April 2018 we spent 12 nights travelling around Scandinavia. We managed to squeeze a lot in; visiting Finland, Sweden and Norway on this whistle-stop tour.…