NYC Part 2

I forgot to mention in the last post that we visited the 9/11 Memorial along with the Museum, so I’ll detail a little of it now. WE walked around the Memorial after we had finished inside the Museum, which meant seeing the pools in the dark for the first time (I’m fortunate to have seen them […]

Edinburgh – Day One

IT makes for a strange feeling, visiting another country without ever leaving the one you’re in. EDINBURGH has the vibe of somewhere totally new, foreign even, but with the reassuring comfort of home. Oh, and it’s absolutely beautiful. FLIGHTS were easy peasy, 50 mins with Flybe, £130 return for the two of us. No fuss. […]

Early Summer Sun

UNI was finished. Well kind of. Ok, not finished. But who cares, May is Summer, and Summer means holidays. WE’D decided long long ago in a galaxy far far away that we would head to Greece for our ‘big’ summer holiday this year, but Greece is a big place full of really inviting islands. Santorini? Mykonos? […]

Tuess, Berlin!

THERE are pieces of the Berlin Wall dotted around the city, with two of the longest remaining sections being the East Side Gallery and at the Topography of Terror. The section at the Topography of Terror is external wall, which would have faced the residents of West Berlin, whereas the East Side Gallery is an […]

Berlin, Part Zwei

IN order to get Jess to agree to another trip so soon after Barcelona I agreed to pay for the flights and the hotel. And to make it that little bit more special I booked a table at Restaurant Sphere. Where you ask… UP there! The TV tower or Fernsehturm was built by the East Germans and […]

StockHOME

I. Love. Stockholm. I can’t say I love Sweden as a whole just yet, but I’m pretty confident I will. ONCE again I had the pleasure of staying with my uni pal, Anthony, at his home just outside Stockholm and once again I’d gone without my girlfriend, which she wasn’t too pleased about…ooops! WE flew […]

Berlin Baby!

Hello! I’M going to try something a bit different to write about my trip to Berlin in May of this year. Instead of the “We went here then here, then over there” style of my past posts I’m just going to write what we did in no particular order. I think this will allow for […]

NetherlanGium

Another quick one, as I didn’t take that many photos while I was out there, and lets be honest, we all love a good photo. In September I went on a very spontaneous trip to Belgium and the Netherlands with my dad, we actually went to watch an airshow (told you I was a massive […]

Tack, Stockholm!

WHERE were we? Day two!! IT was another early start, but not before breakfast! We headed into the city centre to briefly meet up with Anthony’s mum and for an all important visit to Coffee House (it’s a bit like Starbucks only Swedish, I think). WE were going to explore the historic centre of Stockholm […]

Hej, Stockholm!

“DO you want to come visit Stockholm?” asked my university friend, Anthony. “Erm, hell yes!” So, that was that. I’d fly out with Anthony when he went home to see his mum and stepdad, then fly home on my own after a few nights staying with his family. Not a bad way to start the summer holidays. We […]