Last weekend, I was invited to go to the Babington House for the night. I was pretty excited. I’d read loads of good things, so I threw a few things in a weekend bag and went. Babington is pretty “far out there,” tucked away in the English countryside near a town called Frome. The closest …
In keeping with exploring more of France than Paris, I made plans many moons ago to visit Cannes. S. was obviously required to come along, but we were joined by my old childhood friend, C., for a bank holiday weekend of beaches, sun, French food, wine and, of course, practicing our French. We left St …
I need to blog more, as I’ve mentioned, about the things I do about England rather than just focusing on my travels abroad. Because in all fairness, there’s some pretty awesome stuff going on around this “tiny little island,” as a flatmate of mine once called it. One of the coolest things I’ve done recently …
My last few days in Santorini were quite active. The day after climbing the stairs from Amoudi to Oia, I rested from the intense heat of the day in preparation for an evening hike from Oia to Fira. The hike is about 18 km and takes three hours, although A., P. and I made it …
The only morning that MB and I were joined in waking early, we had a mission: a boat tour around the island and caldera. At 9:20am (well, the bus was 10 minutes late, running on Greek time, of course!) we were picked up by a tour bus and brought to the port of Amoudi, located …
Most days in Santorini, MB and I were up quite early, although everyone else slept in. We’d make the short walk to Oia to beat the tourist crowds, enjoy the view of the caldera and take loads of photos. Along the way, we’d have a cheeky freddo cappuccino, one of my new culinary discoveries I …
Throughout our travels in Santorini, members of our travel group would ask one another what our favourite moments so far were. Now that the trip is over, I can safely say that there is no one moment that is superlative to the rest, although a few (that you’ll be reading more about) were exceptional. For …
We woke up early to take the ferry from Athens to Santorini. Originally, A. told me that it would take about 8 hours, but his mother was a legend and bought us tickets for the speedier ferry, which took about five hours from Athens. I was lucky enough to be assigned a window seat, so …
I’ve had a burning desire to go to Greece for some time now. The opportunity to go to Athens arose through work. Then, my friend A. from grad school invited me to his family’s villa in Santorini. When you get those kind of offers, you work hard to weave them together, but above all else, you …
I’ve been wanting to go to the American Museum in Bath for ages. It’s the only American museum located outside of the United States, and as an American living in the UK, I feel it my duty to patronise it! I finally got around to going one sunny summer Sunday afternoon. The museum is located …