I keep a list of the places I visit and I just recently started to put them in order of my favorite to least favorite. I say “places” instead of “countries” because sometimes I’ve only been to one city in a country and I don’t feel like it’s fair to judge a whole country based …
Is there even a graceful way to do this? It probably always sucks to miss your flight, but I feel like I’m especially bad at it. The first time I missed a flight was in Turkey when I misread the military time-stamp “06:30” as 6:30pm. I wasn’t even close – I was a good 12 …
I still get this little rush every morning when the announcement comes on to tell me my local train is eventually headed to London: “Chartam, Chilham, Wye, Ashford International…LONDON BRIDGE…” Ooo London!! I could be going to London! Look how easy it is!! Of course really I’m on my way to Wye, a village just …
WHERE HAVE I BEEN THE PAST THREE YEARS. How did I miss this? One Direction is huge, the biggest boy band in the world right now I think, and they completely flew under my radar until about three days ago. I really can’t write about them and ignore the issue of vocal talent/training. I’ve done …
You saw them go to Thailand 2013-style, now let’s go back in time and see my parents on their honeymoon in Greece in 1982. I recently realized I had never in my life seen my parents’ pictures from their time in Greece. I asked my dad about it, so tonight he went down into the basement …
When you travel alone, you inevitably end up taking a lot of selfies. Without further ado, Selfies around the world:
People are kind and generous if you just give them the chance to be. I learned this lesson ten times over while traveling through Europe. My trip was unique in that I wasn’t doing the standard hostel/guidebook/drunken Eurotrip thing; instead, I traveled to visit people: people I had met three years ago in Sydney; people …
I was pretty proud of my budgeting tactics during my five-week stint in Europe. As we all know, I was supposed to be in India for five weeks and Europe for only ten days, but things changed and I found myself having to reassess my funds and spending habits. Europe is no India; it’s definitely …
