“I’m off to Kos next week,” I told my friend as we grabbed a coffee at work. “Kos?? Why Kos, surely you want to go to santorini, or Mykonos, or Crete?’ The influence of instagram and tiktok was starting to show. “Whats so great about Kos?” he continued. I laughed, I couldn’t really blame him,…
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Ancient Stones, Modern Questions: Visiting Stonehenge in 2025
Despite having been so close to Stonehenge throughout University, I genuinely had never been. I had seen pictures on social media of people going and how much joy and curiosity it filled people up with. However, I genuinely thought ‘cool, rocks, i guess?’ Silly doesn’t even cover half of it. It isn’t till I read…
A lazy girl’s 4 day guide to Salzburg and beyond
I won’t lie—Austria had never really been high on my travel list. In fact, I barely considered it. The thought of Vienna, a big city packed with one museum after another, didn’t really appeal to me. But it didn’t take long to change my mind. It all started with a rewatch of The Sound of…
Unmasking Venice: a traveler’s guide to the carnival
*ring ring*, it was Stefania. My friend who’d I’d met in my travels through Cyprus last year. One of the few where we had actually managed to stay in touch and had promised to see each other again in a different country, under a different sky. Excitedly she said ‘sooooo, Venice carnival? Are you in?’ …
Bites of Venice: A taste of Tradition
*grumble*grumble* Did you hear that? Was that my stomach? For me, italian food comes to one of the best and most diverse types of food of Europe. With spicey, meaty, and deep flavours is it a surprise my stomach is rumbling? Despite italy being so well known for all of its culinary delicacies, I often…
Solo adventures in Paphos
One week to paphos, cyprus was booked. It was my first week long solo trip. The tensions were high, and guardedly I stepped out into the humid weather, embracing the cypriot heat. It was instantly different from the UK, and I breathed it in. Where to now? My hotel Please note, I was not sponsored…
3 days in sorrento
Sat in the glorious sunlit pennisula of Italy, it’s easy to get lost in its beauty and start reflecting on life as your normal days fade into the abyss. It has been a while since my last post, and to the few that read my blog regularly, I apologise for this. This is in part…
Food for thought…Japanese style 🌸
Not everyone is a foodie like us. Not everyone goes to a country and wants to enjoy the food that the city or country has to offer. Take my mum for example, her visit to Japan a couple of years ago was not quite what me or my brother had expected. After only one week…
A day in Hiroshima and Miyajima
Stepping out onto the soil from Hiroshima station, the chatter of people surrounds you, the hustle and bustle of everyday life catches you almost by shock. The city, seeped in so much sorrow and death, brings pictures of a devastating past to the forefront of your mind with the death of over 100,000 people. It…
Two Medics And A Camera 