Travel: Brighton Micro-Trip

My boyfriend and I have been trying to spend some time travelling England recently; he’s here for the whole summer and we don’t have the funds to travel further afield at the moment, so we’re taking advantage of places close to home. I had a couple of days off from work this last week and we headed to Brighton! I completed my degree at the nearby University of Sussex, and lived in the city for three years - it’s one of my favourite places in the world. We visited most of my BTN must-dos, and I wanted to mention them here. 

Travel: Bristol

Why have two cocktails when you can have four (for the
price of two?!)

So my trip to Bristol was far too short, especially once I'd realised how well this city and I would get on! I was visiting a friend who's just moved there, but she had an exam the following Tuesday, which meant that I didn't go until Saturday afternoon, to give her time to revise. We'd booked a table at Turtle Bay, a Caribbean restaurant that has an amazing 2-4-1 happy hour - a rare find on a Saturday night! Apparently it's a chain (normally when I go somewhere new I like to find a more local place to eat), but we couldn't resist BOGOF cocktails! Apparently neither could anyone else, because the place was rammed! We managed to grab some drinks just before happy hour ended, and even a seat to drink them at while we waited for our table. It’s a good job we did, because the trip seemed a little wasted once we realised just how hot all the food was! Neither of us are big spice people but we figured that if we went for some safe options (i.e. nothing with the words “chilli” or “jerk” in them) we’d be okay. Uh-uh! Cue lots of water-downing. So, whilst I could appreciate how quick and fresh the food appeared, the experience was kind of wasted on us.

Travel: Prague (part 2 of 2)

Day 3 (Tuesday January 5th)

This was one of the days I was looking forward to the most, because it was the day we headed to the zoo! My boyfriend and I spend a lot of time at the zoo in Washington D.C. because it’s fun to get out of the house (i.e. student digs) and see all kinds of different animals - and it’s free! Zoos in England are generally very expensive (as in, £20-30 a head), and Prague was an absolute bargain for 140Kč/£4/$6! We’d had several recommendations and it’s regularly on lists of the top ten “best zoos in the world”. Even though it snowed pretty steadily all day, this only added to the atmosphere. Obviously it wasn’t packed, and it was nice being able to wander around without getting in people’s way or coming across too many others. It was an easy ride tram-then-bus ride from the city centre, and both modes of transport had extremely clear electronic signs to show you which stop you were at/which direction you were going in/etc.