From Here to There

a Canadian student who caught the travel bug while on exchange in Birmingham, UK

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I’m starting to realize when people said exchange is the best thing that ever happen to them, they didn’t mean it would be perfect. they meant it would be worth it

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Dec. 24, 2013

Christmas Eve

Mold, Wales

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Dec. 24, 2013

Spent Christmas in Wales with a homestay program

Mold, Wales

[pureblyss]

Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

Robin Sharma (via fearlessknightsandfairytales)

[lv0009]

it is so upsetting listening to so many males talk about all of the times they have gone on road trips alone and slept in their cars alone or on the side of the road, or travelled overseas alone and slept on the floor of strangers homes or in parks or at hostels, and they appear to have such freedom in that they are able to be alone in ways that females, unfortunately, cannot. and there is an ignorance surrounding this in that these boys never seem to comprehend just how fortunate they are that strange people and unfamiliar places and the dark of night are not their enemies but rather exciting, promising things.

[1or3]

“Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night…”

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[just-shower-thoughts]

A train ticket is like a postage stamp for people.

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Sept. 13, 2013

The Louvre

Paris, France

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Sept. 13, 2013

Paris, France

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Words/Phrases I came across while on exchange

revise = study queue = line jumper = sweater you alright? = how are you? lift = elevator bin = garbage can toilets = washroom nought = zero (e.g. before a decimal) aubergine = eggplant courgette = zucchini telly = TV half eight (or whatever hour it is) = 8:30 trousers = pants wellies = rainboots .....? = snowboots

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Sept. 12, 2013

Eiffel Tower

Paris, France

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May 17, 2014

An animal rights event by the Arc de Triomf

Barcelona, Spain

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Sept. 10, 2013

Neuschwanstein Castle

Füssen, Germany

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got this little tea infuser from Covent Garden (London, England)

[psych2go]

We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic to creativity. When we get home, home is still the same, but something in our minds has changed, and that changes everything.

Jonah Leher, The Observer (via psych2go)

[sixpenceee]

The Dutch village of Giethoorn has no roads. Its buildings are connected entirely by canals, footbridges and trails.

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[sixpenceee]

The border between the Netherlands and Belgium.