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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
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
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
It's two weeks until Christmas, my favourite time of the year, and so it's now stortyime of how I found my festive feeling. In case it's not clear from the rest of this blog, I am currently on my year abroad in Germany, the most festive country on earth. I'm not flying back to England…
Continue reading ➞ LIFESTYLE: Mini Christmas | Student Living
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
