Category: Travels
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Update: The Third Trip Delay
(It has taken me a while to write about this because it was just so outrageous, but here it is:) SO, after arriving to the gate where our flight was suppose to take off, I realized that we didn’t actually have physical or electronic tickets; the email that had been…
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A Third Travel Delay – Really?
At this point, I really might just be cursed. Today was suppose to be our flight from London to Barcelona – we got up, got packed, left for the train super early (4 hours until take off, just in case), and got to Gatwick Airport with plenty of time. Which…
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Natural History and Harry Potter
According to our original plan, we were suppose to wake up and go on a huge walking tour of the Kensington area of London where we are now staying (previously we were in the Westminster area). One problem with that plan – Lauren and I are both huge natural history…
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Day 2: The Tower of London
I don’t know if Lauren will make it through the entire 2 weeks she is here without her legs actually giving up on us. It is 11pm currently, and she has been asleep for 2 hours already. The second we got to Tringa’s house (where we are staying) Lauren laid in…
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Day 1 of London: A Walking Tour
Today we walked. And walked. And walked some more. Until our legs were ready to fall off. Lauren is not used to my version of traveling. In my version, you wander all day. No plans needed, eventually you will find something interesting. Maybe you have a bit of an outline for…
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Impromptu Edinburgh Escape
After two days of having every train be cancelled and the entire city be essentially shut down, everyone at the hostel was hopeful that maybe, just maybe the trains would be running on Saturday (today). But late last night, as myself and some new friends (shout out to Tony and…
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Second Weather Delay in 4 Days
For the second time in the first 4 days of a 42 day trip, I have been delayed by weather. Because of the Beast from the East, everyone in Edinburgh is stranded for the day (three days now, actually. A new friend from my hostel [shout out to Jane if…
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Ceilidh: Traditional Scottish Dancing
After spending the entire day sleeping the jet lag away (and hiding from the snow storm, aptly named the ‘Beast from the East’. I’m not joking. Google it.), I came to the conclusion that I had to do something outside of my hostel room to salvage the day. Lucky for me,…
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Essentially Snowed In
Finally arrived to Edinburgh – one problem: the giant snow storm that took over the rest of Europe in the past week just hit the UK and has shut everything down. Those are the view from the hostel window, which has basically been the only part of Edinburgh I’ve seen…
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A Bit of A Delay
When the plane broke yesterday, there was the usual massive group of angry passengers vying to get on the next possible flight to their destination. I, on the other hand, was very flexible – I’ll be in Europe 6 weeks, I don’t mind a day delay. So I decided to…
Ginger Without Borders 