So I´ve been travelling by myself for 4 days now, and it´s been a pretty crazy time so far.  I just left a heated political discussion with a 33 year old French guy, a 32 year old German teacher and a 42 year old Dutch History Professor who´s been living in the States for 10 years to come and check out bus schedules to Oaxaca City from Mexico City ( Read more... )

Last day at work today! They bought me delicious fatty pastries to say goodbye and everything... awwwww...  It was going to be tomorrow that I finished work, but I realllllly haven’t packed yet and I have to be at the airport at 4 pm tomorrow. I’m feeling really really stressed out about not getting everything done in time, but I’m still going out ( Read more... )

My trip to Amsterdam started uneventfully enough.  I caught the train up to Edinburgh on Wednesday night after work where Vinnie met me. We went for a sneaky pint at the beer garden around the corner from him, then went back to his house and somehow ended up drinking most of a bottle of Becherovka which he had bought in Cesky Krumlov while we ( Read more... )

Index of items Anthea has lost/broken since April 2006ish

1. Two digital cameras (on separate occasions)
2. Two credit cards (on separate occasions)
3. One black studded handbag with contents
4. One pentagram necklace (bday present from Adrian)
5. One green cardigan

So, a certain friend of mine contacted me a few weeks ago to say ‘hey you’ve been in the UK for a couple of months now and we STILL haven’t met up, that’s just disgraceful. I’m between dissertations at the moment, so what say we hook up somewhere?’ And that’s basically how I ended up in York with Hazel and friends on June 17th for a night of ( Read more... )

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Paris was amazing!!  I nearly didn't go, but then my boss said I had to because she went 20 years ago and loved it, and besides, she was going to take a couple of days off work anyway...

Lucky I did, because it is definitely the prettiest city I have been to so far in my travels.  This impression was aided by the fact that it was about 30 degrees ( Read more... )

If I were....

*a day ~ Beltane
*a month ~ Avril
*a time of the day ~ noon
*a planet ~ terra firma
*a side ~ the one that's for you
*a thing ~  a book stand
*a drink ~ carbonated pink grapefruit
*a number~ one
*a colour ~ Bryon said my aura is blue. I think I would be the blue in the sky that is light but near sunset so slightly green with pinpricks of ( Read more... )