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It's been a year since I first started my Travel Bucketlist, and being halfway through my year abroad, it's a good time to check back in and see what I've seen and what's left to see. Ticked off Prague Prague was undoubtedly a beautiful city, and the weather we got was phenomenal. My lasting image…
The beauty of Europe as a continent is the ease with which borders can be crossed, so long as you have the right meaningless piece of paper, and being on a year abroad means you have an obscene amount of free time. Sometimes that means that I spiral into Netflix marathons and don't leave my…
Continue reading ➞ TRAVEL: Prague – The Embodiment of Central Europe
France is one of my most under-travelled areas of Europe, something that is particularly shoddy seeing as it is the country closest to the UK on the continent. Within minutes of setting foot in its capital, I was struck by the alien nature of it. It's been a while since I've been in a country with…
Continue reading ➞ TRAVEL: Parisian Submersion Over Sight-Seeing
The only thing to make me emotionally okay with coming back to Munich after the disappearance of the Christmas markets was the promise that the buzz of tinsel-lined huts and Glühwein would be replaced with a calming blanket of white snow. And I wasn't disappointed. As soon as my flight from London began to descend…
Although I knew that Salzburg was in a unique location, not just surrounded by mountains, but amongst them, the first surprise of our weekend away was that our hostel was literally on the top of a mountain. After arguing with Google Maps for five minutes and then embarking on a mission through the mountain itself,…
Continue reading ➞ TRAVEL: Sunny Salzburg to Rains on Königsee
Upon seeing this view from the train whilst we were still more than an hour from our final destination, I knew we were in for a good day. Because this train wasn't taking us just anywhere. It was taking us to the original Disney castle (via a bus and a bit of a hike -…
Continue reading ➞ TRAVEL: Fairytale Adventure to Neuschwanstein
There's nothing like having someone visit a city that you love to make you determined to prove how amazing it is, and so when BFF Adam came to stay, I endeavoured to find the best and brightest that Munich and its surroundings have to offer. When it comes to finding that festive feeling, Augsburg is…
One of the most exciting parts of coming to Germany for my year abroad was the German Christmas - or more specifically, the markets. So good that Britain shamelessly copies them year after year, the opportunity to see as many as humanly possible and eat as much as humanly possible was too good to miss.…
Continue reading ➞ TRAVEL: Guide to Munich Christmas Markets
Another free weekend in Bavaria means another excursion, and this time, I made it a whole weekend. A friend of a friend was offering a free room 20km outside of Würzburg, so off we set on a 3 hour bus north. It wouldn't really be a trip if there wasn't some kind of confusion, so…
Whilst I have utterly fallen in love with Munich since coming here in September, with its pointed spires and tree-lined streets, but at the end of the day, I'm a country girl through and through. I found myself missing proper fresh air, grass that doesn't have houses behind it, and trees that cover mountains. Where…
Continue reading ➞ TRAVEL: Escape the city – Starnberger See
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