Back when I was planning our trip to Europe this year, I was in two minds about how to do the German/Swiss side of the journey. It was clear that a rental car for Iceland was pretty essential, but for the continental side I was tossing up renting a car or taking the train. Both have pros and …
Europe
Why visiting Slovenia should be on your travel wish list
I spent a few days in the small country of Slovenia about a decade ago. I was based largely in the capital, Ljubljana, with some countryside excursions, but from what I saw, I knew that it was a country I wanted to see more of one day. Introducing Nina, a blogger from Slovenia Then I met Nina, a …
Organised tours of Europe and my concession that sometimes, some are OK
I have never been a tour kind of girl. In fact, I searched the whole archive of Not A Ballerina to find any mention of the (very few) short tours I've taken and the only one I found was an overnight tour to Mt Fuji when I was living in Osaka. (Ominously, that didn't go too well - I walked down the …