I've been planning this trip (and eventually this post) for summer 2020, and here we are. My lesson learned along this journey over the last couple of "unprecedented" years: Never EVER postpone your trips on your travel bucket list, because you will never know when you can actually make it. So, when I found time for a quick long weekend escape, I finally and super excitingly made this journey come true—regardless of the fact that the weather was unusually cold and it even sno

If someone had asked me 10 years ago, "If you had a chance to live anywhere abroad, where would you pick?", London probably wouldn't have been the answer at that time. BUT, life had different plans for me... 2015 - First day in London For me, 'London' was just a city with bad weather and full of posh-accented Brits . I'd definitely been planning to visit the UK capital at some point, but quite frankly, it wasn't even in the top 10 of my destination list. In 2015, when I was

Taking advantage of another bank holiday, I’m back with a short “Across England” getaway — this time, the destination: Wales. On my first visit to the country, I explored its two largest cities, Cardiff and Swansea. Did you know that the symbol of Wales is a red dragon , even featured on its flag? It would be amazing if dragons actually existed, of course, but the real reason goes back centuries: warriors used the dragon as a mascot to symbolize strength and authority durin

The first Monday of May being a bank holiday meant, for me, the perfect excuse to escape somewhere in England and see a new place. Making the most of the break, I headed to York , a city in the northern Yorkshire region that’s been on my travel list for a long time and about which I’ve heard many wonderful things. York York Trivia: I probably don’t need to mention which famous city it lent its name to. New Amsterdam in America, under Dutch control, was seized by the English i