My Bucket List of Local City Trips
May 11, 2017
The end of the year is in sight and I’m counting down the days until I can do some exploring guilt free. Luckily for me, Nottingham has a fairly central location within the UK, making it well connected to other cities. So here’s my bucket list of places I’d love to visit for the first …
5 Top Tips for Train Travel
June 6, 2016
Once Upon a Time I was a very naive student who thought that taking the train would be a simple task, you get on at one stop and then off at the other – but I turned out to be very wrong. Taking the train is an art form, a craft that I have developed through …
When the ordinary feels extraordinary
January 27, 2015
I disapprove of the fact I didn’t finish exams until Friday afternoon, but was back in lectures by Monday (I’m sure many of you feel the same!). I therefore wanted to pack in as many ‘normal person not revising’ things as possible in the intervening weekend through having a trip home. Here’s a selection of …
The Nightmare before Christmas
December 5, 2014
I‘m not great with most forms of transport. I fall off my bike in front of mobile cars. I regularly press the ‘stop’ button on the bus too early and end up walking an extra half an hour to get home (maybe that’s just a British politeness thing, though). And once, I fell asleep on …
Anything can happen on Halloween…
October 31, 2012
Right now I feel like this: My brain has been hollowed out and my features are carved in an expression of fatigue and mild confusion. Mid-term blues when the work really accumulates and summer seems like a distant memory. However none of that matters because MY FAMILY ARE VISITING TODAY!!!! As you can …
“Always keep your Childish Innocence..It’s the Most Important Thing”
January 12, 2012
Life, perhaps inevitably after Australia and the excitement the Christmas Period always brings, has slowed the grey and stressful pace that January so often brings to students… Perhaps I am experiencing what they call Reverse Culture Shock where on return to the home country one pines after the routine and specific features of the culture …
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