“You were on your Gap Year last year?! It feels like years ago now!” Those were the words of my sister a few days ago. It really doesn’t feel like it was last year and I’m going to keep saying this, but did it even happen? One thing that confirms that it did is what being […]
My flight: London to Shanghai
The last time I was on a plane which was more than a couple of hours was my flight back from Beijing last June. I spent most of the flight sleeping and resenting the fact that I was flying back home after a seven-month trip. I really, really didn’t want to get off that plane […]
Our East Coast Australia Route | Gap Year Travel
I get numerous questions from many friends and YouTube subscribers alike about where exactly Alice and I went along Australia’s East Coast and which places we would recommend. Here’s the full breakdown of where we stopped off at and which places you can’t miss. Melbourne – Cairns 1. Melbourne We first flew into Melbourne which was by far […]
Kraków in Pictures | Travel Diaries
When I suddenly found myself at the airport with one of my closest friends heading to Poland for five entire days, I knew that this was the most spontaneous I had been in my life. View this post on Instagram When the travel bug hits, you've just got to go… 🌎✈️ A post shared by V […]
Spontaneity
I was scrolling down my Tumblr feed and stumbled across this quote: “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” – Robin Sharma And it really resonated with me. There was something about that specific moment that I read it, something about the time and place and something about how it […]
11 Must-Knows Before Going to China
1. EVERYTHING IS BLOCKED IN CHINA If you’ve been living under a rock, or if you’ve never really given China much thought (which is entirely fair enough) then you may not know that pretty much everything is blocked in China. Facebook? Instagram? Snapchat? Twitter? YouTube? BBC? Google? Gmail? Yeah… those don’t exist in China. Want to keep in […]
If We Were Having Coffee… | Vol. 11
If we were having coffee, I would tell you that I survived Latin Camp! We translated roughly 700 (or was it 800?) lines of Book 6 of The Aeneid which I think is pretty impressive… It’s safe to say I’m a lot more motivated to get on and self-study Latin on my own until I start […]
The Volunteer Series: Daily Life
Since writing a detailed post on my volunteering experience in China, I’ve had a few questions from friends about what day-to-day life was actually like. Life as a volunteer was the complete opposite to life as a backpacker and this was something Alice and I both had to adjust to quickly. Furthermore, life in China in general is completely […]
The Stockholm Pass – worth it? | Review
If travelling around the world for seven months followed by a week in Paris hadn’t been enough for me, I jetted off to Sweden for the first time and spent a few days exploring Stockholm. Sweden, the home to IKEA, H&M, Daniel Wellington, Volvo & Fjällräven, was a place I was looking forward to visiting. I […]
Stockholm in Photos | Travel Diary
I’ve just got back from a four day trip away to Stockholm. I’ve never been to Sweden before so I was very excited to go and I absolutely loved it! Here are a few photos from our time there: More posts to come soon on my short trip away. Hope you enjoyed the photos lovelies […]