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MY TRAVEL DIARY

  • The Day of the Tulip 🌷

    The Day of the Tulip 🌷

    I could not have picked a better day for my visit to Keukenhof Gardens. Slouching around Amsterdam on Thursday in the endless, pouring rain, I’ll admit it was hard to stay positive at all times. But yesterday? Blue skies, sun, and even a chance to remove my coat! Keukenhof is a sprawling manicured garden filled Read more

  • Sunflowers, Stroopwafels and Stripper Poles

    Sunflowers, Stroopwafels and Stripper Poles

    The queue for the Van Gogh Museum this morning was pretty streamlined considering it’s the home of some of the best ever works from this Dutch icon, the museum itself perfectly set up for a seamless experience. I first headed to the lockers with my bag. These were fully digital and very secure, only opening Read more

  • To Zaanse Schans and Beyond

    To Zaanse Schans and Beyond

    I stayed up later than I’d planned last night meeting and chatting with all the amazing girls in my hostel dorm, but even so, drifting off to the calming sounds of the nearby church bells, I still knew that despite the exhaustion and early start, today would be a good one. Just how good I Read more

  • Hallo Amsterdam!

    Hallo Amsterdam!

    I idly watched tiny droplets of moisture licking at the plane’s wings as cotton wool clouds and sparkling sunbeams made way for a sea of green and grey, followed by a seemingly-endless taxi along the runway and a painless passage through Immigration. Almost as soon as we’d left the UK, I was here, in Amsterdam Read more

  • Cape Safari & Falls – Days 9-10

    Cape Safari & Falls – Days 9-10

    Last night I slept in a tent again, this time across another land border in Botswana’s Chobe National Park. This game drive into camp was a little more back to nature than the much tamer Kruger. The ride was an incredibly bumpy one, loose sand flying as we barrelled along what vaguely resembled a track Read more

  • Cape, Safari & Falls – Days 8-9

    Cape, Safari & Falls – Days 8-9

    We turned off the main road onto a dirt track, then a smaller dirt track, listening to the clattering scrapes of bare tree branches against the truck’s mental frame and canvas roof covering. We started our day with a tour of a local village, about as rural as it gets… Upon arrival, we were met Read more