About Me

I grew up in New Zealand, and spent some 24 years of my life there so when (like most Kiwis) I got the itch to travel, I was compelled to scratch it.

I left New Zealand bound for the big wide world. Europe namely but anywhere really that interested me enough to justify buying a plane ticket.
I left after selling almost everything I own and was left with little more than a plane ticket, a pack, and my skis (I was going from spring to a European winter – why wouldn’t I take my skis?)

Over the past months I have travelled through an Italian winter in shorts – thanks to an unknown country and their airline for loosing my bag. Surfed in France and squeezed in some of Europe’s most renowned tourist attractions.

In my travels I have established a few things:
1. Once you have been to St Peters Basilica in Rome no other church or religious edifice can quite compare, therefore you should do the Basilica last.
2. It really annoys Europeans when you say ‘wow that’s looks REALLY old . . . it must have been built at least 100 years ago’ – In my defence that is old by New Zealand standards.
3. Avoid back to back winters! They are incredibly demoralising and depressing; my body is defiantly vitamin D reliant, when the first warm rays of summer began to break through the clouds I was like a dog on a hot day ‘lapping it up’.
4. Finally, I am not a big city kind of person. I like my personal bubble and don’t some homeless guy sticking his armpit in it while standing on the Metro. I have been to London, Paris, Frankfurt etc but what I really enjoy is being outside enjoying nature, or playing sport.

The final reason is why I have created this site, it is to provide you information about less well know activities outside the major centres of Europe. In my mind these are the best way to discover not only the European culture but also the country. The majority of these activates are also enjoyed by habitants of the country and this provides you the opportunity to interact with them while seeing parts of the country that most tourists don’t even know exist. In the time that I have been here I have met very few Kiwis and Ozzies, friends consist predominately of Belgians, French and even the odd Irishman, while this may not be everyone’s idea of fun I don’t think I would change much.

I hope you enjoy the site and the information is of some help.