Tag: uk

• 5 Stages to a Job Search

  To those who don’t know I am back in the UK: Now this is as wonderful as you may expect; I’m seeing family and old friends, walking around familiar streets and experiencing our tropical climate – however it is also becoming increasingly frustrating. This is for one reason and one reason only: I’m on a hunt for…

  May 8, 2016

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• Bombing Innocents in the Name of Peace

  “…the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.” – Hermann Göring in an…

  December 4, 2015

  Musings

• Fringe Benefits (Scotland)

  Scotland ~ Edinburgh – 2014 The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the biggest arts festival in the entire world – the thing is huge! It has over 250 venues that are jam-packed with over 45, 000 varied performers! It is truly a colossal occasion that triples the city’s population in that single August month…year in, year…

  August 12, 2015

  Travel Tales

• BRITISH TEA (RIP)

  Well my dearly beloved…I had prayed the day would never come – and yet…here it is…I’m saddened to report that I have indeed…sorry I promised myself I wouldn’t cry… …ahem, I am saddened to report that…I have ran out of tea, and with this dagger to the heart – I have also ran out of…

  July 14, 2015

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• Escaping a Braying

  A friend of mine recently created a lovely little video of my hometown, Sunderland. It’s the place we both grew up in, and the place we know as “home” no matter where we are in the world. The clip mainly follows through the countryside and coastal areas of the city- rather than the inner-city terraces that I…

  June 29, 2015

  Comedy Capers

• Broke? Travel Anyway!

  I often get emails, and messages from people – asking the same question – “how do you afford travel? Are you from a rich family? Do you have connections? Did you get some crazy compensation deal – and have decided to blow it all on roaming the world rather than making sound investments?!”  Well, no.…

  June 10, 2015

  Musings

• UK vs. USA

  UK VERSUS THE USA!!!! WHO WILL WIN?! WHO IS BETTER?! BATTLE ROYALEEE! LET’S GET REAAAAAADY TO RUMMMMMMBLEEEEE! Okay, it’s not as dramatic as all that but still…in this video I look at the differences between the UK and the USA…were are we similar? Were are we COMPLETELY different?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MlbfJ7CAs I only name  few that I…

  June 8, 2015

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• The Illusion of Choice

  I am often saddened by the fact that in the adult world, imagination and pure magic seems to be overlooked, or even forgotten after we make that unsure step (or are dragged kicking and screaming) to adulthood. It is unveiled that Santa Claus is not real, soul mates are strictly for movies, and that putting cheese on…

  May 7, 2015

  Musings

• Stay Another Day ~ North-East 17

  Move over One Direction, introducing your new favourite boy-band: North-East 17. Here they are performing their breakout hit, which is sure to make them the next big thing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5zkpPB3b4 Sponsored by Budweiser, kinda…

  December 21, 2014

  Comedy Capers

• ARE YOU SEEERIOUS?!? (England)

  England ~ Sunderland – 2014 So I’m back to England at long last, and slowly but surely I am getting around to meeting up with my nearest and dearest – it’s always great to be back, but very, very weird…it’s like nothing changes, but at the same time everything does…I don’t know. Anyway, so last…

  August 9, 2014

  Travel Tales