Alternative Travel Guides

Amsterdam is a city renowned for debauchery, ladies of the night and, for the more cultured: museums, art, and Anne Franks house – but once those attractions are ticked off your list where do you go from there? I am not one to follow the crowd, but I do think a good mix of  tourist […]

Just a short (and free) ferry from Amsterdam’s Centraal station “A Place Beyond Belief” can be found. This is literally the sign that stick out from the water on entering Amsterdam Noord, the area which was once the largest shipyard in Europe. Stepping off the jetty the remnants of the once abandoned warehouses have been transformed […]

Travelling solo can seem like a scary prospect but my trips alone have been the one which have made the biggest impact on my life. The first time I travelled by myself was at the tender age of 18 when I decided to venture to Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand instead of going […]

During the punk/pop fuelled early 00’s I decided that Sum 41, Blink-182 and The Offspring were no longer enough and that I wanted to find out more about the influence of the music I was into. I am going to be honest here and confess that it was not a thirst for knowledge that was the catalyst […]