April 23: I woke up SUPER FREAKIN’ EARLY. I’m sure my roommates hated me for it, but two of them had arrived at something like 3:30am one morning, and that’s just how things go in a hostel. Anyway, I checked out and got my towel deposit back. Then I took the tube to Paddington and…
April 22: I woke up early to mail postcards & head out to meet the tour group to go to Harry Potter locations in Lacock and Oxford. The tour guide turned out to be one of the women who was on the bus tour yesterday; she had been undercover to evaluate that tour guide and…
April 21: Once again, I had a morning where I needed to choose what to do. The options I gave myself were: The British Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, or the free walking tour. The V&A wasn’t even on my radar until the other day when my Harry Potter tour guide said it was…
April 19 (my BIRTHDAY!): I got about 8.5-9 hours of sleep, excluding the few times roommates came in and out of the room. Last year I didn’t really get a birthday, because of the BookCrossing convention, and I’ve been tired of being forgotten or rescheduled on for my birthday in years past. So this year…
April 18, 2012: Had my last full breakfast of the trip (double veggie sausage and double tomato this time-YUM!). I’m going to really miss the Old Court House. I was only there for one day and two nights but I felt right at home. I finally got to meet the owner (she’d been away because…
April 17, 2012: It was so cold in the night that I wore my hoodie to bed. When asked during breakfast if I slept well, I said I absolutely did, though I was cold. Then I was asked if I’d turned on the radiator. Oops. Hadn’t even thought of that. LOL Breakfast was vegetarian friendly–she…
April 16, 2012: Wow. When I scheduled a whole day for travel (every time I needed to travel) I was hoping it wouldn’t actually take the WHOLE DAY! I was up at 7:30am for breakfast (bus to the airport was at 8:30am, according to the front desk guy who printed out a schedule for me…
April 15, 2012: In the morning, we divided up the last of the books from the book buffet and hit the streets of Dublin with plenty of release fodder. The Dublin team had stickers for us to put in the books we released during the flash mob. I released James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist…
April 14, 2012: Had slightly more sleep at night, due to sleeping on the floor of the bathroom with pillows over my head. Then had a very nice breakfast with MORE BookCrossers this time. I came up with a sentence for the game in the hall outside the main room. They selected three books and…
April 13, 2012: Due to my inability to sleep through snoring, I only got about 2 hours of sleep; it was a miserable night. But we met up with Ixion in the morning at breakfast and FINALLY spotted our first non-BCinDC BookCrosser: CaterinaAnna! I was seriously beginning to think that this was all just one…
April 12, 2012: Woke up at 7:11 and packed up the rest of my things. I had another full traditional breakfast; I am SO in love with these breakfasts. The hotel in Cardiff played American ’80s music during breakfast. Strange, but still my kind of place. I was sad to say goodbye to the Sandringham…
April 11, 2012: Some time during the middle of the night, my shower curtain rod came off the wall! Thankfully, I wasn’t using it at the time. I woke up at 8:45am after almost 10 hours of sleep, feeling incredibly rested. I went down to breakfast and helped myself to the items spread out on…
Note: I’ll be posting my full photo albums when I have the thousands of photos processed. But for now, I’m focusing on the write-up. I’ll try to do one every day or every other day. April 10, 2012: It must have been the time of morning (6:30am) and lack of sleep, but when I got…
April 9, 2012: I left for the airport on time then turned around once we hit the parkway because I wanted to get my headphones (I can’t wear earbuds and I wasn’t sure what the airline would provide… turns out, they provide headphones–DOH). After standing in a LONG line for check-in because I didn’t do…
Full photo galleries and detailed daily recaps to follow when I get everything processed and get caught up on life. But here’s a summary of my trip: 15 days 3 countries 4 planes 8 trains 9 buses 2 taxis 2 boats 24 subway trains (I think) 2 broken wallets 4 things I bought that I…
Precious Lite 2020 | All Rights Reserved. Precious Lite theme by Flythemes