Good morning! Today I’m finally in the mood to tell you about my trip to Oxford in March. It was before social distancing and lockdown and isolation and whatnot but after the virus got loose in the UK. To frame it precisely, I was supposed to be going to a gig and I really didn’t … More Stay At Home Storytelling: Christ Church, Oxford
“What, on your own?” is a phrase I heard, uttered in horrified tones, throughout my early twenties. My adventures to the likes of Helsinki, Bucharest, Vilnius and Trondheim were tame by the standards of internet travellers but by the standards of the people I encounter in day-to-day life, I might as well be venturing to … More “What, on your own?”
Well, now seems as good a time as any to go back to my trip to Russia last year because one of my major projects at the moment is to get the scrapbook finished. The main obstacle is picking which of the 2-300 photos to have printed. The other obstacle is making it fit in … More Stay At Home Storytelling: Russia scrapbook, Moscow pages
I was supposed to be in Iceland last month. Obviously, that didn’t happen. Icelandair have been very good about changing flights for free so after being on hold for 77 minutes, I moved my flights to November and the tour companies I’d booked stuff with both have policies of refunds if you cancel more than … More Stay At Home Storytelling: The Iceland itinerary I had planned
I’ve mentioned, ooh, about ten thousand times that I possess a degree in French and Spanish. A Modern Foreign Languages degree course, for an average student-age student, includes a mandatory year abroad in a country where your language is spoken. Or it did in my day, when we were a member of the EU and … More Stay at Home Storytelling: A day in the life of an international student
So. Everything I’ve posted since coronavirus took over the world was written and scheduled around Christmas and the first half of January. Now we settle properly into the oddities of maintaining a travel blog when no one can travel. So what I’m going to do is metaphorically invite you to join me around the campfire … More Stay At Home Storytelling: a Keycamp kid
The weekend I was in Paris was the weekend gilets-jaunes protestors celebrated their first anniversary by causing havoc all over again. I stood in Place de la Concorde, looking at police cars and riot vans lining the square, armed police pacing around, sirens and blue lights rushing up and down both sides of the Seine … More Paris: Love & Violence
“How to cope with emetophobia” is one of my most-read posts. It came in 5th place in 2019 and 7th in 2018 and I think it’s time to go over my thoughts again. It wasn’t exactly a “how to” and this one isn’t even going to pretend to be. Hi, I’m Juliet. I’m a traveller, … More I’m a traveller and I have emetophobia
In 2019, I did a virtual swimming challenge every month. 2.5km or 100 lengths of a standard pool every month and double that in June and October. December was going ok. I’d done 40 lengths before I went to York and I wanted to do another chunk while I was there because I like to … More When a 50m pool isn’t a 50m pool
Hi from social distancing/semi-isolation and working from home! Blogging continues as normal even though I can’t travel so today’s blog is from my trip to York in December – which is what I’ve been writing about throughout March anyway. My primary objectives in York were Jorvik and the Minster. With them crossed off, I set … More Selfies at the National Railway Museum
I Am A Polar Bear 