disney world
HAVE YOU BEEN OUTRAGED BY THIS YET? Unfortunately, you're probably angry for all the wrong reasons.
travel
I’ve learned that all I need to get through a situation is myself. And the only thing that can ruin me is death. Everything else is manageable.
travel
In which we visit TWO eateries from Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives!
travel
A list of stuff I will just start keeping in my bag at all times, probably in that suit flap thing where people with real jobs keep their nice outfits.
mile-high club
Once, on a budget flight, I was waiting for ages to use the loo. The flight attendent knocked and got no answer, so he deployed the secret unlocky thing. The toilet was not vacant, a man was in there, doing a poo. I can still smell it, in my dreams. THAT is why I can't have sex on a plane.
travel
And you can too - here's my handy guide to running away from your problems!
morning after pill
Every time I've obtained the morning after pill in the UK the experience has been bound up in shame. In Paris, you go into the Pharmacie, and say “bonjour, je voudrais contraception d’urgence”. The pharmacist gives it to you. You pay about 7EURO. You leave.
quitting smoking
I love food, it’s just I don't know the first thing about it. If anybody starts talking about the intricacies of texture and palate, they might as well be speaking French, or English in a French accent.
travel
When I met him at St Pancras Friedrich was crying. ‘Oh my goodness I’ve been jabbering on about trainics and somebody’s died.’ I thought. Nobody had died. “I am not in love with you,” he wept.
travel
I've been coming to Warsaw for 17 years, but I only appreciate it now that I'm old enough to spend most of my time in bars
bravery award for least stoic brave person ever
…with mixed success
dirty weekends
The much-maligned city is not only the hometown of Caitlin Moran (brilliant!), Chubb locks (useful!), and my Dad (hiya!), it’s also close to the Staffordshire village where I spent my first couple of years on this earth, allowing me to get both nostalgic and laid in the space of a few hours.
dress up
Love hotels pride themselves on their secrecy. The province of working prostitutes and those who can’t have sex at home because their pesky partners are always there, most hotels are designed so you don’t have to interact with a single other person.
girly holidays
I’ve always had an unusual amount of sympathy for the girls who get a boyfriend (or lady lover) and disappear off the face of the earth.
holidays
It's official - travel makes you sexier. Of course, I already knew this...
sex
Fact: shagging in a plane toilet is NOT sexy. Shagging on a train, on the other hand...
backpacking
Or why hostels ROCK*
denver
If your holiday requirements include 'drink beer' and 'meet lots of hot men,' then you're in luck...
samantha brick
I'M NOT ON FRICKIN' HOLIDAY YOU KNOW!
dark tourism
...or why I chose Auschwitz as my latest holiday destination