A Journey Around Northern Spain

A Journey Around Northern Spain “To go on pilgrimage really means to step out of ourselves in order to encounter God where he has revealed himself”. POPE BENEDICT XVI  Did you know the Spanish Flu didn’t originate in Spain? Recent studies have found the Spanish flu pandemic actually began in New York in the spring […]

A Journey Around Scotland

A Journey Around Scotland An outlandish tale of Freedom and Whisky, oh and my own Highland ghost! I have Scottish ancestry on my mother’s side, so my appreciation for men in kilts is genetic. My actual experience of Scotland however consists of fish and chips in Stranraer before catching the ferry to Ireland every summer; […]

A Journey Around India

I became obsessed with going to India after reading ‘City of Joy’, Dominic Lapierre’s semi-fictional story of the slums of Calcutta, and it was only enhanced after watching the movie of the same name starring Patrick Swayze. The year was 1994 (before mobile phones and the internet) and my mother was horrified that I was […]

A Journey Around My Home

What a year to launch my (long awaited) travel blog! The Fictional Tourist had great plans for 2020, and top of the list was launching a travel blog; an idea that has floated around in my head, surfacing every time I go travelling, but never started on paper until now. As all experienced travellers know, […]