Carnival in Cajamarca
This blog post also appears on the Academia Superior de Idiomas’ blog I spent one of the best weekends of my life celebrating the carnival in Cajamarca. I heard about it when I arrived in Peru, it...
View ArticleAn Update from Peru
Hola Chicos!! It has been so long!! I thought I would be blogging a lot here but I honestly just do not have the time any more. I spend my weeks working at a Spanish school called ASI, I am the...
View ArticleGuayaquil
My first stop in Ecuador was Guayaquil, I had heard that it wasn’t worth going there and that it was really dangerous but I actually thought it was a really nice city. I hadn’t really planned any of...
View ArticleMy Amazonian Adventure (Part 1)
“Lena!! I got the tickets from Chiclayo to Chachapoyas!!” I said excitedly, “Chachapoyas?! WHY?” she replied. “Didn’t you want to go to Tarapoto via Chachapoyas so you could see it? I asked confused”...
View ArticleMy Amazonian Adventure (Part 2)
At 2.47pm on Tuesday the klaxon blew and we pulled out of the harbour, that meant we had been on an anchored ship for over 26 hours! We were told we would leave on Monday at 3pm and to be on the ship...
View ArticleMy Amazonian Adventure (Part 3)
We woke up and decided to go to the Belen mercado for breakfast, it was about a 20 minute walk from our hostel, on the way we passed the famous Belen neighbourhood. It is a floating shanty-town with...
View ArticleA Jam-packed January
I can’t believe January is already over! My memories of travelling are slipping further and further away and I am getting back into the swing of life in Dubai. I still have many travel stories to...
View ArticleChachapoyas
I had already been to Chachapoyas previously to see Gocta and Kuelap and they are well worth it but my second trip was a very relaxing one. Just a girly weekend away full of goodtimes and laughter....
View ArticleThe Truth About Solo Travel as a Woman
As you may have heard, on the 22nd of February two girls Marina Menegazzo, 21, and Maria Jose Coni, 22, from Argentina were brutally murdered in the coastal town of Montanita in Ecuador. I went to...
View ArticleToms One for One
I had an eye-opening experience at the Tom’s store in Dubai Mall. I always knew that Toms were comfy and cute but I had no idea about One for One. Did you know that for every purchase of Toms shoes you...
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