Margo Rhys-Jones Profile and Posts

Hobart in Tasmania is compact and a true ‘gem of the south’. You can get here economically and quickly from the mainland so come over, take some time and check it out!

Taking a day trip from St Petersburg to Peterhof and Catherine’s Palace will be well worth your time and effort...see large, brash and very golden architectural and historical buildings...

Exploring St Petersburg is an amazing experience, best accomplished via foot and with a guide. There is simply so much to see and do its advisable to have a local help you discover millenniums of history...

Take in the old town of Tallinn, with its cobbled streets, cafes and shops. Ride on the trams that run throughout the city, visit the museums and drink the coffee! A lot happens here...

I was heading from Poland to Estonia via Lithuania, but was turned down at the Latvian boarder. Then an adventure across Lithuania which resulted in seeing so much more of Lithuania than expected!

The capital of Lithuania is Vilnius with a population just over half a million and currently the European Capital of Culture 2009, along with Linz, Austria.

Poland rocks! It was in my 'Top Four' of countries to see and do – that said, more than the usual 'weekend in Krakow' was needed, a lot more! I wanted to absorb, feel, experience, live and breathe it.

All young and old travellers should make their way to Auschwitz while on Continental Europe…. Lest we forget. As gruesome as it may seem, the first place I visited in Poland was Auschwitz, the largest and probably most well known of