Honestly, until about 2 years ago I knew almost nothing about the series Downton Abbey. I heard it from so many people that it’s so good, I should really watch it. One day, I walked into a charity shop here in Oxford (there are quite a lot of them in England, where you can buy second-hand…
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Longer but still light stories from my travels – perfect fit for a foamy caffe latte
The Land’s End and the Lizard
I think if I tell someone casually that one weekend I visited Land’s End and the Lizard, I would get some weird looks. Who can tell what I’m talking about? Who can tell that I’m talking about two actually existing and pretty remarkable points of England? England has lots of magical places which are absolutely…
The city of opposites: Luxembourg
In my previous posts, I wrote a lot about Africa, and it is to be continued, but now I decided to break this series with the introduction of an extremely different place, which I visited exactly 1 year ago, at the end of September 2017. On top of being completely different in comparison with Africa,…
Life-and-death fights in the savannah
When you set off for a safari, you would like to see the real wild life. Real life is not only about snoozing elephants, grazing wildebeests, or monkeys jumping around trees playfully. Somewhere deep inside, you also want to witness some action, some excitement: a hunt, a fight. I know it sounds cruel, but it…
My first encounter with the lion
If someone asked me, which is my favourite animal, or which one I liked the most on the safari, probably I’d be in trouble choosing any. Each of them has something special about them, something absolutely unbelievable. From the zebras’ unique stripes, through the giraffes’ skyscraping neck, to the trunk of the elephants, or even…
Setting off for my first-ever safari
After I decided on an African holiday, I was sure that I wanted to go on a safari. I lost count how many times I browsed for safari offers on the Internet. It’s not that it would be hard to find one, but they’re quite pricey. My criteria were: 3-5 days long, group safari, i.e….
The journey and my first impressions about Africa
Well, where to start about my journey to Tanzania? I departed from London, and I had a 14-hour long journey ahead of me, cut into two by a stopover in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Abeba. I was already an oddity at the London airport as a solo female traveller; I couldn’t escape from the curious…
Literary walk in England’s Lake District
In England, there are no national holidays like at home in Hungary, or in France, Germany. Apart from the Christmas-New Year’s-Easter trio, there are so called bank holidays, which are basically a Monday off. One of them prolongs August’s last weekend to a 3-day weekend. At this time, I like going away to farther places…
“Paris is always a good idea” – A teaser for Paris through a spontaneous weekend trip
After 8 years, she was just there again, towering in front of me towards the blueish-greyish morning sky, as if stretching after a good-night sleep. I’ve seen her so many times, from different angles, in so many different lights: glimmering in the sunshine, standing still despite rain and cold, standing proudly in wind, fading into…