After a wonderful day exploring Dublin and the nearby seaside yesterday, I am positively beside myself with excitement to journey north and see more of this little island’s natural beauty. I even convinced my new friend Maryem to join me on the tour today, making plans to meet at 6.45am at the hostel reception. When my alarm goes off, I am amazed at how quickly morning has come, and I realise just how tired I must[...]
After several agonisingly long flights and a 20 hour layover in Manila, we finally land in London on the evening of Halloween. This is horrible news for me, because I love Halloween more than any holiday and yet I am so dead tired that all we do is go immediately to bed. Well, immediately after our 90 minute Uber ride to Brighton. My lovely English friend Becka has been nice enough to let us stay in a flat her grand[...]
Backpacking through Europe has long-since been the quintessential 20-somethings holiday― while there are a million amazing places to explore, and some even more appealing than Europe, there will always be something magical about zipping across borders on a sleeper train, climbing a church tower for views over a quaint old city, strolling along cobbled streets, and subsisting exclusively on pastries, all the while[...]