BRIOCHE AUX PRALINES: 2016

Brighton bound!

View from the hostel.

I love nuns!!

Plz ignore the guy pulling his pants up and pay attention to me!!!

England's version of Santa Monica.

With my Slorz.

Wouldn't be right to be in Brighton and not have fish n chips.

Oui, c'est moi.

Chief "babe."

Whatcha doin, Willis?

Mini group pic.

Chump got iced.

Cheers.

Sasha, my Russian queen.

Queenz of selfiez.

Green juice twinnies!!

Could eat this everyday, really.

Proper group pic.

Mika et moi.

Your #1 tourist.

Nomad children.

Mika eating raw seaweed because she's a weirdo.

Seven Sisters Cliffs.

Willis channelling his inner early 1900s solider look.

Sippin some beers at the beach while our other friends went clubbing.

Oddz are: Sasha you're drunk.

Pooled together all the money we had to get the cheapest drinks available.

Willis and I climbed over a gate to "sneak in" to this palace only to find out later that it was a public place and there was an entrance on the other side.

Hu$tlin.

Have you been to London by any chance?

A bunch of us in the program decided to get together and go on a huge group trip to Brighton. There were a lot of us and we stayed in a really shitty hostel, but it was still really fun. Of course, inevitably, we were split up most of the time but I'm glad we managed to get one group picture. Brighton's such a great city- I'd love to go back. Had a really adventurous night just walking around the city with Willis. Like I mentioned in one of the captions, we were being dumb kids and thought we were being SOOO rebellious by climbing over this gate and were trying to get as close to the palace as we could and took pictures in front of it and everything. Later, when we were walking around it, we found out there was a park behind it and the entire thing was just open to the public. Not a bad weekend for a first trip.

Sunday, November 13, 2016

I'M BACK

So, it's been a little over two years since I ended my year abroad in Lyon, France. And I'm back. Well, back in Europe, not France. I've decided to join this program called Mountbatten Institute to study and work in London for a year, which means more travels and more blog posts. I've been here for about 3 months now and strangely, I feel like I've lost a bit of the novelty and excitement of traveling to new countries. I don't even take my camera to half of the places I travel to, which explains the shitty quality of some of these pictures. Maybe I'm growing up and becoming less worried about having to document everything and just trying to enjoy the moment? Or maybe I've just gotten lazy. Anyways, hopefully, I'll be able to get the spark back. In the meantime, here are some memorable moments I've had in London so far:

First day in Londontown. First stop: Queen of Hoxton with Sasha and Mika.

First day of work as a Marketing Specialist at Thomson Reuters. Yes, I had someone take this for me.

Channelling my inner 2004 Paris Hilton.

Tower Bridge + American tourists.

Decided to catch the sunset with Mika on top of the Greenwich hill one day after work. Of course, it wouldn't have been right without some charcuterie + white wine.

Hyde Park, evening.

At Tom's Kitchen for some after-work drinks with these gals.

Arsenal under 25 game at Emirates stadium. Tix were so cheap (about 5 pounds?)

Carnaval with these two was probably one of my favorite memories so far. Matching tourist shirts? Check. Shotgunning ciders under an American flag? Check.

Hello! Loving pub decoration delights.

Look who came to visit!

Met some Swiss people who came to London to watch the NFL game and ended up playing an intense drinking game that involved coins and keen observation skills.