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Walking London
A short stay in London can be overwhelming, due to the sheer volume of sites to see. In our short time, we opted to take optimize the time through taking a series of walks. We didn’t set out with a checklist of sites, but through happy accidents we ended up hitting number of big ticket…
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Waking Up in London
There’s a reason it’s called a red-eye flight. Flying overnight sounds efficient on paper, but the bleary, bewildered haze it induces is almost always inevitable. Perhaps there’s something of a rite of passage, though, in sleepless stumbling around airports that makes the journey feel like a strange dream, and the waking up upon arrival all…
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The Bold Beauty of Budapest
Hungary was the first place I’ve ever visited where I didn’t speak one word of the language. The first time I saw a word in Hungarian written out, dauntingly long and heavily consonented, I had a sinking realization that I didn’t know even the most basic of phrases. For months, I had packed as much…
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Sunset Beach, North Carolina
Most of us east coasters have some memory of rising to greet the sun on a beach trip. Maybe it’s a girls trip with six crammed into an one-bedroom airbnb. The sunrisers stir awake to the stifled tones of the designated alarm clock. It’s so early, and you’ve of course all been up so late.…
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Let’s Begin at the Beginning
My first journey to Oxford University from departure to arrival can best be marked by strange men who saw me cry. Man 1. Baggage steward in Dublin. Background: I had spent the entire day delayed in D.C., followed by another delayed layover in Boston. We took off from Boston around 1 a.m. I had just…
Second Spire to the Right 