Tag: england
Traveling to the UK during Covid
When planning travel, it’s become increasingly simple to find guidelines and rules posted on official government websites and spelled out in blogs and news articles. However, the reality of what it looks like to travel can be sort of lost in the shuffle. Most people are reporting general information with few reporting personal experiences. So…
Travel rewind: My first time traveling abroad
Everyone’s gotta start somewhere. Before I became an internet authority on travel, I got my traveling start on a two-week trip around Europe. I had just graduated from grad school and in lieu of attending my own graduation, my best friend Lauren and I valiantly set off on a European adventure. Looking back on it…
Day trips from London
Though I can’t imagine why you’d be in any hurry to leave London, there’s a lot to do outside the city in places where you might not otherwise want to spend the night. If you’re using the city as a home base, there are several interesting half-day and full-day trips from London that are worth…
The grand tour of Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey is one of the most iconic churches in the world, certainly in England. It’s been the site of sixteen royal weddings, all the British coronations, and it’s the final resting place of scores of notable kings, queens, military heroes, and writers. A tour of Westminster Abbey is as awe-inspiring as it is informative.…
Camden Market: London’s best and biggest shitshow
Good markets bring people out in droves, but none are quite as over-the-top as London’s Camden Market. Open daily until about sundown, the markets are bursting with people eating, drinking and shopping, especially on the weekend. What is Camden Market exactly? To call this a “market,” simply doesn’t do it justice. In actuality, the area…
A strolling food and drink tour of London
There are probably thousands of blog posts dedicated to all the things to see in London. This is more like the kind of tour you should take if sightseeing in London is secondary to getting drunk and eating a lot. Nonetheless, there’s still a bunch of great things to see along the way in this…
