Prologue - moving out
2015年8月1日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
Getting packed and moving out of my apartment. Thanks for being a great flatmate, Jesse!
Prologue - moving in
2015年8月2日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Moved everything to my parents' house (photos of all my worldly possessions), for a lengthy three day stay.
Huge thanks to mum and dad for all the help moving!
Prologue - flying out
2015年8月4日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Three days later, off to London (via Sydney and Dubai)! Bye NZ!
Prologue - Sydney stop over
2015年8月4日, オーストラリア ⋅ 🌙 9 °C
Ohai Sydney! One hour stop over on the way.
Prologue - Dubai stop over
2015年8月5日, アラブ首長国連邦 ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
Many movies and some poor sleep later, I'm in Dubai. It's not yet 7 a.m. local time and the temp outside is 35°C!
Made it!
2015年8月5日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
About 30 hours of travel from the start, I'm in London!
London Hostel
2015年8月5日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Staying a bit out outside of London proper, but it's cheap and only 30 mins by Tube. Unfortunately there's a Tube strike tomorrow...
Hostel is essentially a pub with rooms upstairs. Time to crash andもっと詳しく
London: central landmarks
2015年8月6日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Met up with Daniel and finally met Anita! Anita showed us around some of the central London landmarks, including what Daniel knew as "the big clock" and "that palace" (not as impressive as I imagined,もっと詳しく
Culture! Richard II
2015年8月7日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Highlight of the day was going to see Richard II performed in Shakespeare's Globe theatre! The theatre was built by Shakespeare's playing company in 1599, burned down in 1613, rebuilt in 1614 andもっと詳しく
Diane & Luke's Wedding
2015年8月8日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Had a lovely day attending and celebrating Diane and Luke's wedding. The ceremony was at a cute little chapel and the reception was at Luke's family farm house.
Bonus: got to glimpse Reading and rideもっと詳しく
London - Tower of London
2015年8月9日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Went in to the Tower -- more like castle -- of London (pro tip: don't leave your student ID card behind in the hostel >.<).
I particularly liked the Line of Kings and armor displayed in the Whiteもっと詳しく
London - evening
2015年8月9日, イングランド ⋅ 🌙 21 °C
After the Tower, wandered around a bit and got up close to St Paul's cathedral (so big! see me in that photo?). Then went to see Leicester square, Downing st (can't actually get on the street due toもっと詳しく
London - Saatchi gallery
2015年8月10日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Daniel took us to this super-modern art gallery (ie. recent work from current artists). Very cool! Much more interesting (to me) than the older "modern"-period art in the Tate.
Particularlyもっと詳しく
London - bye Daniel & Anita :(
2015年8月10日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Farewell to Daniel and Anita, off back to Leeuwarden today. It was great touring London with you this past week!
Also randomly took the bus past my hostel up to Edmonton! Just like the Canadianもっと詳しく
London - science museum
2015年8月11日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
I like science museums, so decided to go here before my side trip to Edinburgh. As science museums go, it was more historical than usual (I liked the San Francisco Exploratorium and Sydney Powerhouseもっと詳しく
London - transit thoughts
2015年8月11日, イングランド ⋅ 🌧 17 °C
Having made my way around London on public transit for a week, here is a long rant about it. No details of my activities so skip if you're interested in that.
Tube/train is loud, usually hot, andもっと詳しく
London - Stansted airport
2015年8月12日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Wow. This airport sucks. I arrived about 1h45m before my domestic flight (just after 7 am, probably not peak time). Massive queues to check in, and even bigger queues to go through security (pic 1).もっと詳しく
Edinburgh - exploring
2015年8月12日, スコットランド ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Arrived in Edinburgh and found my hostel (pic 1), wandered around, up and down the Golden Mile (super packed with Fringe festival stuff), checked out Scottish parliament (very interesting building,もっと詳しく
Edinburgh - castle
2015年8月13日, スコットランド ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Made my way up through the crowds of Fringe to Edinburgh castle (somewhat marred by the huge bleachers erected in front for people to watch the Military Tattoo in the evenings, pic 1). I took a niceもっと詳しく
Edinburgh - cranachan
2015年8月13日, スコットランド ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Traditional Scottish dessert! Mostly thick whipped cream and fresh raspberries, with a whiskey-soaked biscuit at the bottom. Yum!
Edinburgh - ghost/Potter tour
2015年8月13日, スコットランド ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Went on the famous City of the Dead tour - only slightly spooky but very informative and entertaining - definitely recommend! No pics from the tour because it was usually very dark and camera flashesもっと詳しく
Edinburgh - economist bonus
2015年8月14日, スコットランド ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
There's a big statue of Adam Smith, "the father of modern economics" on the main tourist street. I didn't know he was Scottish! Here he is looming over me at night, reminding me of exams.
Blair Atholl - Robertson clan museum
2015年8月14日, スコットランド ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
Took a 3 hour bus ride to visit the home of Clan Donnachaidh (in Gaelic, children of Duncan - this was from before families kept a fixed last name, instead called by "[name], son of X, grandson of Y",もっと詳しく
Edinburgh - food
2015年8月14日, スコットランド ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Continuing with my food-sampling (I'm thinking this will become a regular topic) I tried more Scottish fare: scotch pie (similar to a NZ meat pie except with thin hard pastry instead of soft flakyもっと詳しく
Edinburgh - tours
2015年8月15日, スコットランド ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Went on a walking tour (so much history!). Got the impression that Edinburgh was pretty self impressed with "the Athens of the north" motto and attempting (failing) to build a replicaもっと詳しく






































































































