Wanderlusting
I’ve been flicking back through my pre-covid travel photos and thought I’d share a few of my favourite trips – including Amsterdam, Barcelona, Vienna, Granada and Berlin. The picture above takes top spot for me though, taken just before I left Vigo at the end of my Erasmus year. I cannot recommend Galicia highly enough…
//Lisbon//
The few pictures I took on a mini-break to Lisbon a few years ago. The most miniscule of mini-breaks; we were in the city for less than 36 hours! Due to current travel restrictions, I’m living vicariously through my old travel photos and optimistically (but hesitantly) planning future trips. I have very fond memories of…
//Berlin//
Berlin is one of my favourite cities – vibrant, fascinatingly historic yet somehow simultaneously modern … it’s just really cool. We went for the Christmas markets in mid-December – definitely worth a trip! Beautiful lights and decorations everywhere, stalls brimming with unique gifts to bring home. Not to mention the delicious food and drink: Bratwurst,…
//Amsterdam//
Some more lockdown travel nostalgia for you … Amsterdam is one of those cities I was a little sceptical about – I’d seen so much of it on TV, film and travel blogs yet imagined it couldn’t possibly be that picturesque in life … but it is! Or at least the areas we saw certainly…
//Vienna//
Vienna has been a permanent fixture on my travel bucket list and last year I finally made it there! Currently spending lockdown browsing through my trip photos, so here are a few of my favourites. Recommendations: Hundertwasser House – worth a look just for the photos … Spanish Riding School – if you can’t go…
The Penelopiad // Ourense // Pontevedra
The Handmaid’s Tale is one of the best books I’ve ever read, so needless to say I had high hopes for Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad. I find tales from Greek mythology fascinating so the idea of this ‘rewrite’ was certainly intriguing. The basic premise is an alteration in narrative perspective of Homer’s The Odyssey to that of Penelope, the dutiful…
Stardust // Porto
I have one word for Neil Gaiman – spellbinding. Plain and simple. He masterfully creates such a complete, layered fantasy world for his reader that they are completely lost in it from the first page to the last. What perhaps makes it so entirely convincing is the delicate, seamless weaving of this existence with our own.…
Bookishly Abroad 