Travel adventures are the only kind of surprises I like. When I have a day off, there’s nothing I like to hear more than a friend coming up to me and having this conversation: “Emma, how would you like to go on an adventure?!”“I’d love to! Where are we going?”“It’s a surprise!” Which is exactly […]
Coast
Goodwood Racecourse
There’s this fantastic concept called Mystery Shopping. In short, you get paid to review places by visiting locations and testing customer service, stock, and employee general knowledge. Normally they tend to be a little dry (go to this shop and ask about X, we’ll reimburse you for whatever) but every now and then you’re given […]
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Orchids and Key Largo
Our base for this portion of the trip was Homestead. Originally we had planned to drive and explore the Everglades National Park but after a bit of research, we found had come in the wrong season for alligators and if we ventured into the glades, all we’d see would be swarms of mosquitoes that would […]
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Miami Beach
It is my great pleasure to inform you that Miami is exactly how you imagine it to be. I’m talking extremely attractive and tanned people sauntering about in bikinis and boardshorts. No one gets up before noon because there’s no rush to do anything. Food whenever, drinks whenever, beach whenever. I’ve never been in such […]
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Cocoa Beach and Village
Leaving Orlando and Universal Studios, we made our way to the coast in preparation for the number one reason we had come to Florida in the first place – NASA! But before I write what will inevitably be a post that takes a whole day to read, here’s what else we got up to around […]
St Andrews
The day following Edinburgh Zoo, we took the country lanes to get to Fife and St Andrews. We arrived just after noon, having battled against our shared allergies to the swathes of rapeseed we had past. My mum had been given a recommendation to visit The Seafood Restaurant that sits right over the sandy beach […]