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The Northerners
For the second month in a row we didn’t leave the country, and for a few days we went up North to a town called Barnsley where our housemate Emma is from. It was her birthday weekend and was going home for it so we went too and got to spend some time outside of [...]
Tourist to Tour Guide
The day that Monica and Para came to London I unfortunately had to work so I was eagerly waiting 5.30 to get out of the office and see them! It had been a while since we had someone visit and I was looking forward to seeing them, having not seen them in over a year. [...]
An English Beach
A day at the beach was in order as neither of us had actually even been to a beach in the UK at all. We caught the train in the morning down to the south of England to the seaside town of Brighton which is famous for its stone beach and the Brighton Pier. That’s [...]
Stonehenge & Bath
Instead of going to another country on Elese’s weekend off we instead decided to stay in the UK and see some of the country we had been living in the past year. On the Saturday we were up early and getting a tour bus from Victoria Station to take us out the UNESCO World Heritage [...]
This is Basque Country
After the Running of the Bulls we got on the bus and headed towards Zarautz where we would be staying for the next two days. Zarautz is a small town in Basque country in Spain, not too far from San Sebastian. The bus ride took about two hours from Pamplona and once we got there [...]