L'herbe est toujours plus verte...

Travel between countries on the mainland continent seems to be so much cheaper than from the United Kingdom. It's almost as if the rest of Europe has gone, "The UK? They don't really want to be in Europe so screw them, they can pay twice as much to get around here." I mean 180 euros from Paris to Moscow via Geneva? Really? I'd be mad not to take it.

Year Abroad: What scares me most.

I promised you fears, and as I'm feeling the fear right now, fears you'll get.

In the last couple of days I have filled in some of the many essential forms from both my university and British Council, bought travel insurance, a train to London and a Eurostar ticket from London to Paris. Everything is beginning to seem far too real and, with that, far too scary.

And today is the day this blog goes French.

Well, at least a little bit.

And I'll probably blog in English on the whole, so please don't fear. I'd frighten an awful lot of people away if I declared that this will be a French-only zone from now on.


But hopefully soon I can adjust my header, the flag will reattach itself to the White House and somehow I'll recognise France up there as well. At least the French flag isn't too hard to draw.


Why? Well if you weren't already aware then I suppose I'd better enlighten you...

The Potter Tour

Although I haven't shown a lot of the tour (footage was banned...), I made a short vlog about our trip out. If you're into Harry Potter at all, then you really should go and visit. The £28 entrance fee might seem steep but for what you're getting and seeing I don't think it's overpriced at all!

People and feelings and (a lack of) knowledge.

It has been a very long time since I've posted here and as was the case last time, the flag still doesn't want to sit on the White House. I don't have many good excuses, it's just mainly been work, and reading, and family, and friends.


Except over the last few days I was compelled to write. Since I've just taken my first exam of four, I think it's acceptable to have a bit of a, what I hope is well-written, rant.

New Year's Resolutions

It’s been a long while since I found the time, energy or inspiration to write on this website, and the flag is still detached from the White House.

I wish I could say I’d been doing something with high levels of excitement to take me away from writing here, but that would simply be inaccurate: I’ve been working for university with varying rates of success, and working for money with similar; I’ve been trying to lead a somewhat productive life, taking advantage of every suitable scheme thrown at me by Exeter, dancing at home, socialising in both and travelling between them, and somewhere in the midst of all this I lost the ideas and, frankly, all waking hours in which I would write.

However, amongst all this, one thing which jumped out at me as something upon which I could expand and also appropriate to the season was New Year’s resolutions.