I was recently in Germany for a few weeks, travelling from town to town and city to city with a DeutschlandTicket. Along the way, I heard a ...

As the sun sets on an Amsterdam summer tourist season, here are 17 random things I overheard tourists saying in Amsterdam in summer 2025. It...

Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash I recently spent a few days in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where I heard the following choice sayings: 'Ah...

Photo by Sebastien LE DEROUT on Unsplash A few weeks ago, I was in Brussels so took a circular trip on the Brussels metro. I travelled on th...

Photo by Jannik on Unsplash On King's Day in Amsterdam, I took a walk around the city in the morning - before the big parties start and...

I read and wrote about a book on Experimental Travel in 2011 with great ideas to do some of the experiments. And then, I never did any of t...

Photo by Ana Paula Grimaldi on Unsplash I was recently in London. As I walked around, I heard the following: I don't think we need many...

Spring has arrived in Amsterdam, and as I've walked around the city, I've heard people being very emphatic: I can zig AND zag! I lea...

One day, while in Berlin, I rode the S-Bahn that loops around the city. There are two lines: the S41 goes clockwise, the S42 goes counter-cl...

I recently spent a few weeks staying in Berlin. As I walked around the city, I over-heard these snatches of conversations: Shall we go up th...

I went to Benidorm last week for Benidorm Fest and kept my ears open for interesting chit-chat. Here's what I heard: The thing is, I...

I left Schiphol Airport this week, flying to Cork. There were long queues for each part of the journey, where I over-heard Irish voices sayi...

The Mall with NATO flags, 2019, US Embassy in UK, Wikimedia Commons I was recently in London, and my friends Martin and Max alerted me that ...

London's Circle Line is one of the oldest in the world but these days Ye Olde Circle Line isn't even a circle - it's a loop wit...

Vienna Laengenfeldgasse , Herbert Ortner, Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA Vienna does not have a circle line. But with some quick U‐Bahn changes,...

WESTbahn , Kabelleger, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Two people on a train in Austria are looking at various websites on a laptop. One's a...

I was in Madrid earlier this year, and decided to resume a blog series idea - riding a circular metro line . Madrid's circular line - Lí...

A group of five business people are sitting in an Amsterdam hotel lobby, discussing an upcoming presentation. Someone says the word innovati...

A hotel lobby in Amsterdam. Two middle-aged American women are sipping some wine, while a handsome, muscular, young Dutch guy sits next to t...

I'm in a charity shop in Derby, paying at the till for my purchase. The shop assistant is speaking to me, while she talks to her friend....