The Final Review of 2017
Well, it is that time of the year, where we review the year gone by and start to make plans for the upcoming festive season and new year. What a year 2017 has been for us, 12 months of travel and fun with a little bit of blogging thrown in for good...
The Eastside Gallery Berlin-The Wall
For those who grew up in the Cold War era, the Berlin Wall was an immutable fact of life; the once great European city would always be divided both physically and ideologically by "The Wall" as it was known. For those of us not in Germany or the Eastern Soviet Bloc...
Riga-The Travel Guide
Riga, the capital city of The Republic of Latvia and the largest city in the Baltic States, is located on the Baltic Sea at the mouth of the Daugava river. It's historic centre is UNESCO World Heritage Listed and is renowned for it's well preserved Art Nouveau and...
A week in Riga-A Travel Tale
Travelling to Riga Riga, the capital of Latvia was the second stop on our 3 week journey through the Baltic States. We travelled to Riga by bus from the capital of Estonia, Tallinn. We arrived at the bus depot in Tallinn with quite a bit of time to spare as we were...
Tallinn-The Essential Travel Guide
Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It is a quaint, small city with a large history. It's Old Town is one of Europe's most beautifully maintained medieval cities, gaining it a place on the UNESCO World Heritage list. Tallinn also listed as one...
7 Days in Tallinn – A Traveller’s Tale
Arriving in Tallinn It was a happy couple who kipped our first night in the capital city of Estonia, Tallinn. To be fair it would not have taken much to put us to sleep after the rather long and sleepless cruise from Stockholm. Throughout our travels we had erred on...
A cruise from Stockholm to Tallinn-A Travel Tale
We cruised from Stockholm to Tallinn via Helsinki. The first leg of the journey from Stockholm to Helsinki was onboard MS Mariella, a ship in the Viking Line fleet. The second leg of the cruise from Helsinki to Tallinn, was on board MS Finlandia a ferry in the Eckerö...
3 months in Europe with Possess the World
It is a little over 3 months since our last 2017 review and we have been busy little travellers. We know you remember where we had been and what we had been up to but just in case you need to refresh your memory, you can check out our first 6 months of travels here....
Blogger Recognition Award Nomination
We are excited to announce that Possess the World has been nominated for the Blogger Recognition Award, not once but twice. A huge thanks to a couple of our favourite bloggers, Vanessa at Wanders Miles and Trupti at Girls Glamour, who kindly nominated us. What is the...
A week of highlights in the Lowlands-Maldegem, Belgium
Belgium is known as the Lowlands and it is flat, very flat but don't mistake that for boring, Martin McDonagh got it wrong, oh so wrong, when he described this part of the world, as the most boring... in Europe. Our trip to Belgium from Ireland via Amsterdam (yes...