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A Year in the Life of an International Teacher

July 15, 2017July 15, 2017 Bratislava, Europe, Expat, Expat Life, Featured, Travelling, Working Overseas austria, bojnice, Bratislava, castle, cornwall, expat, heviz, hungary, iceland, international teaching, lake, looe, mountain, salzburg, Slovakia

I often get people asking me about life as an international teacher, so to honour 10 years of living overseas I have put this post together to show you what a year in my life

Pictures from the Cornish Coast

September 14, 2016September 14, 2016 Europe, Featured, Travelling, United Kingdom cornwall, lizard, looe, porthcurno, whitsand bay

Most of my summer was spent in Cornwall, a place that I grow to love more and more each time I visit. For this mid-week post I wanted to show you some of my favourite

Coastal Walk: the Lizard to Kynance Cove

August 27, 2016August 27, 2016 Beaches, Europe, Featured, Nature, Travelling, United Kingdom cornwall, hiking, Kynance Cove, united kingdom

When I was a child my family holidayed in either Wales or Dorset where we would camp, spend hours on the beach, eat picnics by the lake, and go for leisurely hikes. I spent these holidays walking

Walking With Dinosaurs at the Eden Project

August 18, 2016August 18, 2016 Childhood Memories, Europe, Featured, United Kingdom cornwall, Dinosaurs, eden project, great britain, united kingdom

Did you know that if you venture deep into the Cornish countryside during July and August you can walk with dinosaurs? I wrote about the Eden Project last year (read the post here) about how it is a

Summer’s Coming, and I’m Going to Europe!

May 2, 2015May 2, 2015 Europe, Featured, Plans, Travelling berlin, copenhagen, cornwall, denmark, england, estonia, europe, germany, hamburg, prague, stockholm, summer, summer getaways, sweden, tallinn, travel, uk, united kingdom, västerås

In June, heavy monsoon rains will saturate the streets of Mumbai, so I am doing what most other foreign teachers here do—leaving India for the summer. And what better place to go than Europe? In contrast

Let Travel Put Some Colour Into Your Winter

November 8, 2014November 8, 2014 Advice, Featured, Travelling arctic circle, argentina, chile, colour, cornwall, iceland, india, Salar de uyuni, travel

Winter is Coming. Are you feeling it yet? That dull feeling that creeps into your soul as the days get shorter and darker. That heaviness in your spirit as the sky gets heavier and the

Eden: Experience A Rainforest Without the Bugs!

July 4, 2014October 2, 2014 Europe, Featured, Nature, United Kingdom biome, conservation, cornwall, eden project, rainforest, uk

Have you ever wanted to experience the exotic flora and fauna of the rainforest, but are terrified of snakes and spiders? If so, then this post is for you! Since my parents moved to Cornwall

New Year’s Eve Celebrations in Cornwall

January 1, 2014July 11, 2016 Europe, Partying, Tradition, Travelling, United Kingdom celebration, cornwall, costume, fancy dress, looe, new year, NYE, party

This year I decided that my NYE celebrations would be very low-key as my Iceland trip and the run-up to Christmas has been pretty expensive, so I decided to hold back for New Year. My

My 5 Travel Highlights of 2013

December 15, 2013July 11, 2016 Europe, Travelling bosnia, cornwall, england, europe, glacier, iceland, isle of skye, istanbul, Jökulsárlón, lagoon, looe, mostar, scotland, skye, travel, turkey, uk

At the beginning of 2013 I had no travel plans. I had just moved to an expensive apartment in Stockholm and expected a light travel year similar to 2012. But, as is often the case

10 Foods To Try in Europe

September 28, 2013January 13, 2014 Europe, Food and Drink belgrade, bosnia, burek, cevapcici, cornish pasty, cornwall, croatia, culinary tour, europe, food, goulash, Greece, hungary, istanbul, kajmak, kleftiko, kremna rezina, lake bled, lamacun, lokum, mostar, pierogi, poland, serbia, slovenia, turkey, uk

Warning: This post will make you hungry! I had not been travelling for long before I realised that my trip would become a culinary tour of Europe, devoted mainly to trying different, and amazing, new

Discovering Lovely Looe, Cornwall

September 22, 2013December 21, 2013 Europe, Nature, Travelling, Working Overseas britain, cornwall, england, fishing, looe, smuggling, uk, village

In British English the word loo is a colloquial term for the toilet, so when my sister and her husband announced that they were moving to Looe—pronounced in the same way—they received a few sniggers

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