Seven year old Emma was obsessed with dolphins. I had a horse phase and a dog phase but dolphins were my all-time favourite. I had dolphin soft toys, posters, and figurines. I memorised dolphin facts and figures (Did you know dolphins are mammals and not fish? Did you know dolphins can swim up to 20 […]
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Kennedy Space Center
My family are huge nerds. I know the biggest draw about Florida for most people is usually the theme parks and beaches but if I’m being perfectly honest, the sole reason we had made the nine hour flight was to make it to Kennedy Space Center. And to just drive home how nerdy we truly […]
Thanksgiving in the Rockies: Revelstoke to Banff
It’s tough to chose my favourite day from the trip but it might be this one… We awoke to a misty morning. Our hotel in Revelstoke was more of a motel, so Club ESL did us a solid in providing a packed breakfast for us all. In our (quintessentially North American!) brown paper bags, I […]
Mount Douglas
I am unequivocally in love with BC. I’m never coming home. Never. Okay, fine, I will be coming home, but this weekend has seen BC climb rapidly in my heart from “how pretty!” to struggling to pick my jaw up off of the floor. Even now I am having trouble processing the views I saw from […]
Mount Kilimanjaro for AICR: Uhuru and Mweka
After a long four days, we were at long last going to reach Uhuru Peak! I had known all along that summit night was going to be the hardest part of this trip but I hadn’t really known what to expect. I knew the day would consist of four parts: trekking to Stella Point, walking […]
Singapore and Bali: Fish and Flowers
Final instalment in this long line of posts! My last two days in Singapore were jam packed full of sightseeing before a horrific 22 hour trip back home to cold, wet England. Day Thirteen – SEAside At this point, it felt like we had been on Sentosa for most of the holiday, but we found […]