Tag Archives | England

How Jane Austen Taught Me to Be a Fearless Female Traveler

By on January 30, 2013 in Adventures, Confessions, England, Europe, Get Inspired

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” Jane Austen When I was twelve years old, my sister-in-law gave me a beautifully bound copy of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, with a handwritten note inside saying how much [...]

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Autumn around the World

By on November 12, 2012 in Destinations, England, Europe, Italy, North America, Spain, USA

Nothing makes me happier than when the leaves begin to change. Shades of gold, red, orange and yellow blanket the ground, crunching under my feet as I would rush off to class in university in Massachusetts or hiking around my parent’s home in Virginia. Without a doubt, autumn is my favorite season. I love fall, [...]

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Photo Friday: Oxford, England

By on August 31, 2012 in Confessions, Destinations, England, Europe

I have a confession. You can’t tell anyone, promise? Ok, here is goes… I’m a BIG dork, a HUGE dork. Not like a secret comic book lover or a fan of calculus, but a fully-fledged, unashamed, out of control nerd. I was a medieval studies major in college, at an all-women’s college, that I went [...]

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Brighton Pride

Photo Friday: Brighton, England

By on August 3, 2012 in Destinations, England, Europe, Photo Friday

With all this media attention in the States about Chick-fil-A and LGBT rights, reminds me of a few summers ago when I was living in Madrid and traveling around Europe. On my way home, I stopped in the UK for a few days to visit a good friend in Brighton. Now Brighton is one of [...]

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Photo Friday: Bath, England

By on April 6, 2012 in Destinations, England, Europe, Photo Friday

In the summer of 2009, I was living the dream, getting to live in Europe while researching for my senior thesis. On my way over from the States, I decided to stop off in the UK and visit some of the places I had been hoping to get to. The first stop was Bath. Growing [...]

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Just stepped out in Londontown

By on April 21, 2011 in Uncategorized

So the first weekend in April I was in the UK visiting my friend Jo in Brighton and had an AMAZING time! Saturday we took the train into London for the day, met up with some of her friends, and had surprisingly good weather. Since this was probably my fifth or sixth trip to Europe’s [...]

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Brighton-Land of Rainbows

By on April 10, 2011 in Uncategorized

Again sorry for the delay in posting. This past few weeks have been crazy, and I have been running around nonstop traveling and working. This weekend I was in Granada, definitely a bid for favorite city in Spain (post coming soon-I promise!), and last Friday was the culmination of our bilingual week at my elementary [...]

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