Travel Diary – London
10th June 2017
The grand journey began, as many journeys of self-discovery do, with the solitary figure of a girl, boarding a midnight bus in a small town, destined for the …
Glasgow Travel Diary — 23rd/24th July 2016 2/2
23rd July 2016 –
I didn’t sleep *quite* as badly as I thought I would, and my headache is mostly better, thankfully. I made myself a crappy, black, instant coffee, because …
Glasgow Travel Diary 1/3 — 22nd July 2016
I don’t go on holidays, I go on pilgrimages. Today’s journey of worship/quest for higher knowledge takes me to Glasgow, which will be my university town, come September (assuming all …
Read MoreTravel Diary — Days 12, 13, and 14 — 7th, 8th, and 9th July 2016
7th July 2016 –
I woke to the pattering of rain on the rooftop, and the roar of the ocean in the near distance. I woke in a contemplative mood, …
Travel Diary — Days 10 & 11 — 5th and 6th July 2016
5th July 2016 —
I woke early this morning — sometime after 4. Because this is Estonia, full-on daylight streamed in through the large windows. I was freezing cold, so I …
Travel Diary — Days 8 & 9 — 3rd and 4th July 2016
3rd July 2016 —
I never thought it would be possible to love a place the way you can love a person. But Tallinn is personified to me, and the passion …
Travel Diary — Days 6 & 7 — 1st and 2nd July 2016
July 1st 2016 —
There are times when I wonder how much of the way I act is me, and how much is my characters. I often jokingly refer to them …
Travel Diary — Days 4 & 5 — 29th and 30th June 2016
29th June 2016 —
There is a strange paradox here, that the happier I am during the day, the more I cry at night.
Today has been my best day …
Travel Diary — Days 2 & 3 — 27th & 28th June 2016
27th June —
Morning:
On the plane to Tallinn (still in Gatwick airport, yet to take off). I hear Estonian speech coming through on the speakers, and get excited when I recognise …
Travel Diary — Day One — 26th June 2016
The first post in what will possibly be a two-week-long series of my ramblings. Handwritten throughout the day, and painstakingly typed up on my phone at night. (I can’t believe …
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