The Tale of Two Passports

I have two passports now! Here’s why… I got mu last passport (on the left) in early 2014 and now I have a new passport, which I got almost exactly three years later. This is because I filled the other one up, which was one of only two items on my bucket list. So at…

Monthly Recap: November

November has been a really good month! Keep reading to see what I got up to this month. Places I Went Shengzhou, China Shanghai, China Xi’an, China Best on the Blog A Taste of Shengzhou – this is the blog post I wrote about my trip to Shengzhou with a TV crew. I had a really…

Taipei

I spent last week in October exploring Taipei, so keep reading if you want to see what I got up to. On our first day, we got into Taipei in the afternoon. We stayed in an area called Ximen (西门), which turned out to be a really cool area. We were really surprised at how…

Switzerland: Basel

I just got back from a week in Switzerland. It was a much-needed holiday after all my exams. I stayed with friends, which was also really nice. I didn’t do that much in Basel, but we did walk around the day I got there. We mostly walked around the old town on my first day….

Monthly Recap: March 2016

March 2016 Places I Went Cramond Island, Edinburgh – Cramond Island is a tidal island in a village just outside of Edinburgh. It used to be used by the military in WWII, so there’s a bunch of abandoned, graffitti-ed up bunkers around the island. It’s a pretty nice place to walk around. Blackford Hill, Edinburgh…

Winter in Bavaria: Munich

I got back from Germany a week or so ago, but I am only just now getting around to writing about it. I ended up falling in love with Germany a little bit and I had a really relaxing weekend. I arrived in Munich on Valentine’s Day. I found my hostel super easily, because it…

Postcards from Europe

I’ve been interested in traveling for a long time. Long before I knew I would move to Scotland to go to university, I was desperate to travel. I wanted to go to the beautiful places we learned about in history classes. I wanted to go to the exotic places where they spoke the languages I…

Day Trip to Glenfinnan

Last weekend, I went to Glasgow to visit MK, and on Saturday we took a day trip tour to the Highlands, and here’s what we got up to. Our first stop on the trip was Inveraray. Here we got some much needed coffee and breakfast. Afterwards, we didn’t have too long to explore, but there’s…