I've been meaning to wrap up my "Tasmania with a toddler" series for ages - and here it is. Before I went to Tasmania last year, and even while I was there, I was constantly googling phrases like "Tasmania with a toddler" to get some good advice on great places to take a small child, and I didn't …
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Historical hotels: A creepy night at Wolf’s Lair, Poland
One of the creepiest places I've ever spent the night was at Wolf's Lair (aka Wolfschanze in German, or Wilczym Szancu in Polish), near the town of Gierloz in the north of Poland. I stayed in a hotel on the site at the very place where Hitler spent a significant amount of time during World War Two …
Learning to love art galleries
A bit of a confession: during the early stages of my travels around the world, I tended to visit art galleries out of a sense of duty. I liked the idea of going to galleries, but didn't really get how people could spend a long time in one, and I visited more because I felt like you should see the …