Getting Out of the Bubble

A couple weeks ago I post part one of this mini-series about Berlin ( here ), which covered much of the history and culture that Berlin has to offer, but today is a completely different side of the city. If I had to think of one word to describe Berlin it would be "cool". Berlin is a city which oozes cool from it's very pores and has something about it that makes you want to go back again and again. It is definitely a city that is very much shaped by its history, evident from the remains of the Berlin Wall throughout the city, but it is also an incredibly modern city with a flourishing culture of art, music, and sense of individuality. Like most cities, Berlin has a side that is slightly more hidden than the typical tourist traps that we all know (and love), but if you make the effort to dig a little deeper it's a rewarding insight into Germany's biggest city. Maybe that is why, when planning a reunion with some friends made in China, I didn't mind headi

Clearing out my room after coming back from China I stumbled upon an old travel journal from all the school trips I took. Although travel with school may not be considered the best type of travel, it was partly school trips that gave me the travel bug; and looking back it occurred to me that this travel journey was essentially the same thing as my blog, albeit a lot more awkward and full of teenage lingo. Since I recently started a new and very exciting job and won't have a lot of time for new adventures, I decided to share with the world some extracts of my teenage mind, think of it as an extreme Throwback Thursday. Throwback! Way back in 2008 I was lucky enough to go to Iceland on a school trip. It was a strange experience because Iceland itself is a pretty strange country. I remember going for days without seeing a person outside our group; but at the time that was okay, a bunch of over-excited school girls can survive in isolation. We saw some of the most amazing scene