“Let’s fly to Amsterdam,” we decided. “It’s so quick.” Spoiler: It wasn’t. For maximal pleasure of reading, dear reader, I have divided my entry into Day 1 and Day 2. Usually I aim for more pictures and less text but this one, dear reader, IS PRIME MATERIAL AS TEXT. Mark my words. For anyone unfamiliar […]
England
I had a sandwich in Sandwich
The Earl of Sandwich enjoyed a good gamble. He enjoyed it so much that he prioritised it higher than regular meal breaks, and was often known to request people bring him a slab of meat in between two pieces of bread, so he could munch during his game. His fellow gamers approved of this idea, […]
London 2 Dubai
8/12/2013, 7.47am. A bit disconcerting since all my gadgets are still on British time saying it’s 3.47am. But it is sunny, hot (apparently 24 degrees), and I am looking over the skyscrapers of Dubai OH YES I AM. Sat in an apparently Irish café eating a mahoosive fruit salad and cappucino which came to God […]
Aberystwyth 2 Gatwick
(Due to lack of wifi during the travels, there is a bit of a back-log in the publication of these…) 7/12/2013 klo 18.12 Yo. Hello from EAT. at Gatwick Airport, which has neither plugs nor wifi. Won’t be using my phone or laptop much on these flights then… Oh well. I have books. And […]
Day 5: Let’s do some travelling!
(Written earlier this afternoon) Hello from a TGV train towards TOULOUSE. The little girl across from me has just finished droning, very bored, a renditioning of Gangnam Style (“eeee, exileidee”, I doubt she knows what she is supposed to be singing thankfully), whilst the guy behind me had just stopped listening to Gentleman (Psy’s new […]
Day 4: Happy birthday Hannah!!
G’dday and hello from the Dover-Calais-ferry, closely missing a massive humongous exciting cargo ship which looked like a mountain from afar, so in other words life is very exciting!!So, we are at Day 4, ie. yesterday. A nice “relaxing” day, meaning no travelling on trains and staying in the same area. So, we were in […]
Day 3: Lewes castle and off to Oxford
(Written last night, 21st of June, but had no wifi-access then…) Coucou lovies, Today was basically a day of travel. We had decided to go to Lewes in the morning, a town a 15 minute-train ride away. We had eaten breakfast, mostly finished packing, and it was 9.52 when I checked the train timetables. “There’s […]
Day 2: Emirates Stadium&Ipswich!
HALLO PUMPKINS, Today we spent about six hours in trains. It’s a lot of time and something to get used to during the next weeks, but it went surprisingly well. I spent more or less a third of the trips asleep, a third playing Marble Saga (STILL ON THE SAME DARN LEVEL) and a third […]
Day 1: And so it begins……
Dear fans, family and friends, This was the view from my window this morning. A view I was quite happy to leave. Ok, granted this was after a brilliant year as an English assistant at a prestigious school in France, but this view also meant work, school and stress (and a badly cut lawn, merci Monsieur). […]