16/05-22/05/2024 “ If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair… ” and some extra change in your pocket....

11/05-16/05/2024 A storm was brewing as we flew to Arizona. Literally. There was a huge storm over Texas, meaning a very bumpy flight. I...

09/05-11/05/2024 We departed the calm, suburban bliss of the East Coast and headed towards the airport, departing for the South. We...

06/05/2024 So by now the jet lag in New Haven was beginning to wear off. And it was conveniently located about a two hour train ride from...

03/05/24-09/05/24 We landed in Boston at 17:30 exactly (or 5:30pm as we discovered a lot of Americans can’t use the 24hr clock) and...

01/05/2024 The stress of travels began way before we even left for the airport. I arrived at Conrad’s a few days prior to pack our bags...

23/03/24 Well the cat is out of the bag now. My place on my masters has been confirmed, my notice handed in and a flight across the pond...

21-24th August 2023 Having now touched back down in Split, we still had an entire day before our night train to Zagreb. It was now hotter...

14/08/-21/08/2023 (We went island hopping from Split so this blog will be split into three-and-a-half-parts. One for Split and each of...

10/08-13/08 2023 Having now been abandoned in the deadest “main” station I’d ever seen, I settled about finding a quiet place to sit...

06/08/2023-09/08/2023 Having now spent nearly a whole week unsupervised in Central Europe, it was about time someone kept an eye on me....

06.08.2023 Despite it being too early to formally announce my final Interrail awards, I can confidently assert that the Prague train is...

03.08.2023 My first solo Interrail trip began with a night in London. Having braved a 7am Eurostar and the much more convenient Ashford...

13.03.2023 The great British weather fails to surprise me at the best of times but it truly took the biscuit this time when a sudden snow...

15.02.23 I’m often asked what I get out of a year abroad. Besides the obvious cultural fulfilment, language skills and liver training,...

01.02.2023 New Year’s Eve is over. The hangover has passed. My liver has recovered and ready to take alcohol again. But I don’t. Along...

27.11.2022 Despite being officially an A1 Spanish speaker and experiencing the horrendous British summertime since birth, I have managed...

13.09.22 One warm afternoon in May, after a particularly traumatising ride with Deutsche Bahn, Diego, Isi and I mused on a crazy idea to...

24.08.2022 Slight content warning on this one: drug use, mild violence, domestic abuse There is a rite of passage for every British...

26.07.2022 You may be forgiven for thinking that when you are in a group of three friends for over fifteen years; and one moves away to...