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Breaking all the rules. #rebel #grandcanyon #trekamerica #arizona (at Bright Angel Trail)

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Why is it so cold and windy!!! ❄️💨🌨🌪😱🏔🇺🇸 #trekamerica #grandcanyon #nationalpark #arizona

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Blog #17 Farwell Europe

Blog #17 Farwell Europe

After my horrendous two week tour through the country that I hold dearest to my heart I took solace in the fact that I could head back to Berlin for a week and enjoy the city on my own in my own head space and spend my final weeks in Europe loving life. Back to Wombats, Berlin I went and shared a dorm with some pretty cool people. It was absolutely freezing cold in Berlin by mid October so I…

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#sunrise #Louisiana #lakecharles #trekamerica (at Sam Houston Jones State Park)

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Blog #16 Shitty Steins, Shitty Strudels.

Blog #16 Shitty Steins, Shitty Strudels.

I’ve literally waited a month to be in the right frame of mind to write my blog about the tour that I did in Germany. More than a month. I try to write about all the good experiences I’ve had and to report back on the negative moments that have come with it but this tour was just such an eclectic mixture of all things good and all things bad that it’s taken me over a month of mental stewing to…

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There are not enough words in all the dictionaries and not enough synonyms in all the thesaurus' to really encapsulate how much I love and treasure this woman. A best friend, an honest opinion, a soul mate, a confidante, a reality check and a bucket load of intelligent care and advice are just a short list that make up some of her top qualities and would you look at her... She's bloody gorgeous to boot!! Happy birthday to you my darling girl. Love you lots and miss you more! X

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For the love of God Boden... Open your eyes!! Did you even see where we were that day!?! Clearly on top of Mount Titlis on a lookout platform with a bunch of random blokes that all wanted to shake our hands. #toomuchglare #squintykid #randomtourists #swissalps #blinkybill (at Top of Mount Titlis, Engelberg (3020m))

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Dirty Thirty

Originally I was going to encapsulate all of my German adventures into one blog but given that the last blog was all about seven simple days in Spain I thought it best to break the month long Germany adventure up in to parts. So let’s just call this blog… The week I turned 30 in Berlin. I had planned all along to ensure that I was going to be in my favourite city of all, Berlin, for my birthday.…

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My Iberian Adventure.

It was early to rise on day one of the Iberian Adventure with meeting time in Madrid set for 7am. First stop along the way, or in Busabout terms our first “splash and dash” was for a spot of breakfast where the whole tour group discovered Tortilla Española. Spanish omelette made of egg and potato put between a fresh baguette. DELISH! From Madrid we were on our way to Cordoba for our first stop…

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About 30 seconds after this VP rode straaaaaight into a bush. #nervouscyclists #tiergarten #Berlin #birthdaybikeride (at Tiergarten Park)

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My favourite city. #Berlin #berlinwall #eastsidegallery (at East Side Gallery)

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D&M's on the couch with this babe make everything so much better! See you on home soil lady! (at U Hostels)

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Blog #13 It's all a bit jumbled

Blog #13 It’s all a bit jumbled

It was a ten hour bus ride that saw me back in London from Edinburgh. That’s probably the last time I scrimp on travel costs to save a couple of dollars as it was the bus ride from hell. Ok so that’s probably a little bit dramatic but the bus reeked of urine from the get go and after ten hours, the smell grew worse exponentially. It was disgusting. Lucky for Jacob he contracted some hostel flu…

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Blog #12 Day Tour Etiquette 101

Blog #12 Day Tour Etiquette 101

A day tour on a bus can be quite a pleasurable experience. There hasn’t been a day tour I haven’t enjoyed so far and now that I’m half way through I think I have enough experience to give some advice. I was on a tour the other day – you can read about it in my blog about Scotland – and there was this idiot on the bus. Now this idiot was late. The tour guide actually held the bus after departure…

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Scotland. A new love.

Scotland. A new love.

Scotland. A new favourite. I love Scotland. We arrived in Scotland after our short little plane ride from East Midlands Airport and initially there was catastrophe. A shriek from me at the luggage carousel ‘I LEFT MY KINDLE ON THE PLANE’ scared Jacob a little I think. Off I went running to lost property. NOT MY KINDLE!! Firstly – there’s no lock on my kindle and secondly, my reading list is all…

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Blog #10 Doom and Gloom of The Ashes - Fourth Test

Blog #10 Doom and Gloom of The Ashes – Fourth Test

The worst game of Test Cricket I will ever see… Got to Notts a few days before the fourth test started to get the touristy things out of the way. Went to Nottingham Castle and alas Robin Hood was under wraps so didn’t get to see the famous statue. Oh well. The castle was great. Great views of the city and lovely garden. I do indeed love myself a good garden. Had lunch at the Ye Olde Jerusalem Inn…

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Blog #9 Diddly-dee potatoes - IRELAND

Ireland.

To be sure to be sure… I’m really not sure at all. It’s been nearly two weeks since I actually started my tour in Ireland so it’s a bit mixed up in my head now but I’ll have a crack at it anyway. Again just a friendly reminder that I’m a maths teacher not a writer so ease up on the judgement. I left Split, Croatia with a raging head cold and one hell of a cough coming from the deepest part of my…

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