Vienna, June 29-30

I've been extremely behind in posting about my travels. The last trip I have actually given an account on was London, and since then I've been to Vienna, Vaduz, Esztergom, and multiple cities in Switzerland. So I have many amazing pictures to share.
I shall slowly get around to posting them all on my blog, but for today I will just share my long-overdue Vienna pictures.

It was a really chill weekend away with the boyfriend. We had a super great time, and I was glad to be back in Vienna as an adult and have a look around. 

I'll try to post pictures of my other trips in the coming weeks. 

10 Year Anniversary

As of November 16th, I am celebrating a huge anniversary. The 10 year anniversary of this blog. When I started it I really had no idea that 10 years later I'd still be updating it at least monthly. While my viewership has all but faded (I'm actually not sure anyone checks it unless I tell them to), I still find it the perfect space for me to get my feelings out paper (screen) and relax. It's also super convenient to have all the best pictures from my travels in one place, amongst other things, so I can show them to people when the subject comes up.

All in all I'm pretty impressed with my dedication, (I say singing my own praises).

Here's to another 10 years, I'm so curious where I'll be by then and if this blog will still be telling my story.

-Nat

T_T

New Life Plans --In Progress

When I was seventeen I decided that I really want to live in Spain at some point in my life. I didn't have any specific plans, just that I needed to get to know my other citizenship, as I felt like such a foreigner everywhere I was. But if I have a little bit more of a base from my two home countries it may help me feel like I belong somewhat more to this world.
Over the years I've tried to make this work, I considered doing my university there, but could not afford to, so I decided I would go after. After university I realized I could't afford it financially, so decided to stay an extra year in Budapest and work towards it.
This is when I realized how expensive it is to move from one country to another without a base or someone waiting for you. But, since I'm stubborn, I decided I would not spend another year in Budapest. I'd borrow deposit money from my parents or whatever I needed to finally get to Spain. That's when a new job opportunity opened up for me.
This job is something two of my sisters did two years back, but I was not too interested in at the time as I was in university and wouldn't have been able to. Basically, I would have to live in Switzerland for three months and help take care of a lady who had a brain hemorrhage and needs help with daily tasks. This time, when they wrote saying they need someone new to help, I decided this offer came around to many times for me to drop it. I was gonna take it and use the money to move to Spain.
Which brings us to the present. I have currently been living in Switzerland for a week. I'm living off of delicious food and surrounded by a country I have always wanted to explore more. This means I will probably spam this blog with photos of my travels through Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Austria.
Hopefully I'll be able to post from Spain in February, I'm really looking forward to this all working out for me.
I guess good things really do come to those who wait.

And I get to wait to in a place that looks like this.

HIMYM Quote

To all my friends in different countries that I am still in touch with regardless of how rarely I can meet them:

"That's how it goes [...]. The friends, neighbors, drinking buddies, and partners in crime you love so much when you're young, as the years go by, you just lose touch. You will be shocked, [...] when you discover how easy it is in life to part ways with people forever. That's why, when you find someone you want to keep around, you do something about it." - Ted Mosby

Don't Let Go Yet -Hayley and Curtis

This one though...

No Day But Today -Makenzie and Paul

This is just so beautiful and relatable. 😥

London June 8-10

A bit over a month ago two of my sisters and I took a trip sightseeing in London. Theoretically, it was not my first time in the city -as I once spent a day in the countryside-, neither my first time sightseeing in the UK -as I have been to Edinburgh four years ago-. Either way, London was totally worth going back to the British Isles for. One other thing that made our trip special was that we got to the Buckingham Palace just in time to watch the Queen's birthday parade, and her make an appearance on the balcony of the palace. That already would have been worth our entire trip, but luckily there were more amazing things to follow, and unfortunately, also some unpleasant ones, like the rain and spending my last day vomiting from the flu I caught. 

Getting a better view of the Palace

 Over half the parliament was under construction, and this is how horrible the Big Ben looked, which is a pity, as I was looking forward to seeing it

 London weather was not my fave

 

 Fish and chips

 Trafalgar's Square

 Sherlock Holmes

 Finally go to eat crumpets!

Out of everything in London, the thing I probably enjoyed the most was watching Henry IV at the Globe. After years of studying Shakespeare it was indescribably amazing. 

Unfortunately we didn't see the Tower Bridge open, so I guess I'll have to return to London to catch up on that amongst other things.

Overall the trip was definitely worth it and I really loved London.

-Nat

Nora McInerny

Israel + Jordan

Dear people who read my blog,

In an earlier post I mentioned my trip to Israel and Jordan and how I was gonna post pictures. With a little delay, here they are: 

Tel Aviv:

 Jerusalem

Eilat:

Jordan:

Petra:

 It was a wonderful trip, and a perfect break from the monotony of every day life. Also I got to see my third wonder of the world (the stone city of Petra), which was just as breathtaking as the other two I saw (Colosseum and Wall of China).