My travels

I love to travel, so I thought I’d add a list of the places I’ve been in the world to my blog. For places that I’ve written about, I’ll provide a link to the post.

Austria

– Feldkirch (lived there for nearly a year)
– Bregenz
– Dornbirn
– Bludenz
– Innsbruck
– St. Anton am Arlberg
– Vienna
– Salzburg

Belgium

– Brussels
– Ostend (I have to confess, I don’t remember  a thing about it though!)

Czech Republic

– Prague

England

I was born in England and lived there until I was 20 (with the exception of 2 years in Northern Ireland). If I listed all the places I’ve been I’d be here all year, so I’ll only list places I blog about here.

– Yorkshire Sculpture Park
– Alnwick
– Manchester

France

– Paris
– Strasbourg
– Metz
– Lauterbourg
– Amneville (well, Amneville zoo anyway…)
– Calais (on a day trip with my family… my mum got free tickets for the ferry from the newspaper and my step-dad got excited about the duty free lager! We literally went to France to go to the beach, then took the evening ferry home again…)
– Colmar
– La Petite Pierre

Germany

All the places on my 30 German Towns Before 30 page plus the following:

– Karlsruhe (I lived here for 8 years)
– Cologne
– Göttingen
– Trier
– Triberg im Schwarzwald
– Garmisch-Patenkirchen
– Augsburg
– Bruchsal
– Weinheim
– Bad Säckingen

Greece

– Rhodes (first holiday abroad, when I was 11!)

Ireland

(Including the entire island here, for simplicity’s sake)
– Holywood, Northern Ireland (lived here from age 5-7)
– Belfast
– Looooads of places on the 2103 Ireland roadtrip. For details, see this post.

Italy

– Rome
– Padua
– Vicenza
– Venice
– Sicily (somewhere, I still have a piece of lava from Etna…)

Liechtenstein

– Vaduz

Luxembourg

– Luxembourg City

Malta

I’ve been twice, but don’t remember where we stayed…

The Netherlands

– Amsterdam
– Delft (this post also includes the Hague and Leiden)
– Den Haag
– Leiden

New Zealand

– Auckland
– Queenstown
– Milford Sound
– Rotorua
– Hobbiton
– Huka Falls (Lake Taupo)
– New Plymouth

Portugal

– Albufeira (twice!)
– Madeira

Spain

– Barcelona
– Blanes
– Lloret de Mar (suuuch a tourist destination, I know… blame my mother! ;-))

Scotland

– Edinburgh
– Luss (on the banks of Loch Lomond)
– Fort William
– Arran
– Glasgow

Slovakia

– Bratislava

Sweden

– Stockholm

Switzerland

– Basel (moved here in 2015)
– Appenzell (very briefly, on the way to somewhere else)
– St Gallen
– Olten
– Luzern/Mount Pilatus
– Liestal
– Engelberg Titlis
– Mariastein Abbey
– Arlesheim
– Lausanne
– Fribourg/Freiburg
– Delemont

Taiwan

– Taipei
– Sun Moon Lake
– Taroko Gorge/Hualien

USA

– Newark, Delaware (Jan spent a year studying there and I went to visit him. That was my one and only trip to the US so far, so all other places are ones he took me to)
– New York (for New Year. I hated it! But jetlag was partially to blame so I should give it another chance)
– Philadelphia (looooved it there!)
– New Castle, Delaware (I just couldn’t resist visiting another Newcastle)
– Port Deposit, Maryland

Vatican City

– St. Peter’s Basilica of course. Is there anything else? 😉

Wales

– Colwyn Bay (this was our family summer holiday for about 4 years running!)
– Cardiff
– Swansea
– The Brecon Beacons