Part and parcel of being an "expat" (a.k.a. WASP immigrant) is an obligation to sporadically return to the Motherland. For m...
Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts
The Big Easy
The more time that passes since you've been somewhere, the more it becomes clouded by nostalgia and romanticism, and that is only exa...
What travel can do for you
Being on the other side of the world from your family, friends and the place you grew up can be tough sometimes. Occasionally I'll a...
Thanksgiving in Big Sur
Two years ago, for Thanksgiving, we packed into a car and drove the 101 up to Big Sur to spend the weekend camping in the forest. Two Th...
Walks around Santa Barbara
This post is queued as I'm currently gallivanting in Los Angeles I'll be straight with you: I'm a city kid. I am not o...
Eating (and drinking) in IV
Two UCSB posts in a row, sorry but this one was a request from a friend! Food and drink in Isla Vista pretty much reflects the lifesty...
Let's Go Gauchos
"School pride" in the UK is probably a phrase that only has currency amongst those elite few who attended prestigious public sc...
Movie tourism
Let's face it, sometimes you've only heard of a place because there's a movie set there. Weirdly enough I've told pe...
Santa Barbara, The American Riviera
Aside from being a 1980s soap opera dubbed "the worst program on television...maybe ever", Santa Barbara is a beautiful, afflue...
Keep Austin Weird
I just hit my one year anniversary of being back in the UK. On a J-1 visa you're given 30 days after the end of your studies to rema...
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