I entered a Bradt travel writing competition where the theme was the kindness of strangers. I didn’t even make the top 16. Humbled by rejection LOL The Weight of a Grain of Rice It started with a mosquito bite smaller than a dot on a grain of rice. I was in India, staring at my bare […]
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Who does she think she is, travelling during a time of non-essential travel? Don’t get upset- I’m flying from Canada to the United Kingdom because of work. I’ve also had my first dose of the vaccine. This entire time, I’ve avoided all non-essential travel despite the plane-shaped hole that not being able to travel has
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2020 was a doozy. I’m sure if we played the “my year was worse than yours” game, we’d all end up in a dark place, but at least we would be there together. If you, like me have; noticeably indented your parents’ couch, memorised each blade of grass from your house to the mailbox and
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I’ve got my rant pants on again; they’re pulled up tight and I basically can’t move out of this straight jacket of fury that I have created for myself. Here’s why. When I travel, I am doing it for me and only me. I am not doing it so I can take a picture to
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You’ve goat to be kidding Me My Corona, when you gonna stop, give it up? I am clearly using old song lyrics to express my thoughts, it’s gotten bad. I am just so over COVID. Time and money always seem to be the big two reasons why people say they can’t travel. I find, to
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A few posts back, I mentioned bits and bobs about moving from Amsterdam to Edinburgh. Upon further reflection (I have nothing else to do, thanks COVID), I realized what a massive dump life took on me when I moved. There are those times in my life when everything seems to flawlessly line up. Everything goes
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It started out as me needing to be back in Europe. After a fantastic, HAlarious (this is how I used to think the word was spelt) time on my trip to Spain with my high school Spanish class in 2006, I was greedy for more. travel when I was 18 My first trip abroad without the folks or teachers was to Greece
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A York day trip from Edinburgh is totally doable but it is a long day since it is 2.5 hours each way on the train (maybe shorter if you bought a more expensive train ticket) but I spent 38 pound return and booked about a week in advance through Raileurope. I looked at a few
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I wipe away my sweat-stash as I type this. Those of you who nodded your head in understanding, bravo. To the lucky ones who have no idea what that is- it is the perspiration that forms delicately under your nose, which turns into an attractive moustache. Not that any moustache on a lady is attractive
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I have been going to various yoga studios around where I live in order to take advantage of the trial week offers that they have. All the classes were taught in English. The majority of them I had to book online beforehand since some classes fill up quickly (depending on the size of the studio).
