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My New Year's Resolution, of sorts, is the 50 Book Challenge. In case you couldn't work it out, that means I want to read 50 books in a year, just under one a week. For mine, I'm not counting the books that I read for my degree, because that's a cop-out. Having said that, it…
Continue reading ➞ 50BC: ‘A Book For Her’ – Bridget Christie
I spent my summer documenting my travels with my new grown-up camera, taking a step up from my iPhone Instagram pics, so I thought I'd group them altogether here to showcase my summer of shooting.
After 16 hours of travelling from Stockholm, we dumped our stuff in our hostel and immediately headed out for some food. We took in our first afternoon in the city sitting by the river, and the sun came out in force while we were relaxing there, making for a very peaceful start to the city.…
Continue reading ➞ TRAVEL: Interrailing around the Baltic Circle: Helsinki
Within minutes of getting into our hostel in Stockholm, we immediately realised that this was far more social than the other hostels we had been in. We were invited to a bar crawl in Gamla Stan, Stockholm's old town, and after a speedy dinner in Burger King (cultural, I know), we headed straight out into…
Continue reading ➞ TRAVEL: Interrailing around the Baltic Circle: Stockholm
The exhaustion of the overnight train journey from Copenhagen was balanced out perfectly by our mid-trip Airbnb break, a respite from the hectic hostel lifestyle. Having a flat to ourselves was amazing after sharing a room with a minimum of six people for the last week or so, although this Airbnb was a bit different…
Continue reading ➞ TRAVEL: Interrailing around the Baltic Circle: Oslo
My first thought of Copenhagen was it felt exactly how I expected it to. Canals, brightly coloured rows of houses, bikes flying past you: the picturesque epitome of a Scandinavian city. Our first night was spent tip-toeing around a dorm room of early sleepers - we got to our hostel at 8.45pm to find our room…
Continue reading ➞ TRAVEL: Interrailing around the Baltic Circle: Copenhagen
Next stop on the whirlwind European section of the trip was Berlin. We spent less than 24 hours in Berlin, so I picked out some highlights to make a whistle stop tour for Clara, as I spent a month in Berlin last summer. Here are my personal top five hits of Berlin that I would recommend…
This summer saw my first experience of backpacking - except I didn't take a backpack. I'm justifying still calling this a backpacking trip because we were jumping from country to country by train, living out of tiny bags in hostels, and not staying in one place for more than 3 nights. The exhaustion was easily worth it…
Continue reading ➞ TRAVEL: Interrailing around the Baltic Circle: Warsaw
Italy has always been somewhere I've wanted to return, attracted by vague memories of towering columns in the Colosseum, and cats trying to steal my ice cream in narrow Roman streets from a childhood family holiday to Rome. So where better to go for your first getaway as a couple? But the relaxing sight-seeing jaunt…
