A Lot Can Happen in a Year

A lot can happen in a year.  I used to think that was just a saying, something people said when you were wondering if things would ever happen, if you were impatient for life to begin.  It was always said with the sort of wistfulness of someone who has already had many full and changeable […]

Saying Goodbye and Saying Hello

It’s been a week since my plane touched down on British soil and I was home.  But with delayed flights, jet-lag and weekends away to pick up my much-loved pooch, it’s really only been a few days of being home for good. Saying my final goodbyes on 4th July was hard.  I’d be lying if […]

The end of an adventure

Well it’s here, my last day in the States.  Today, I board a plane to take me back home across the Atlantic, back to a city of hills and people I love and tea with milk and sugar.  Today, my American adventure ends and a new one begins, back on English soil. I hate goodbyes.  […]

Almost home

It’s almost time for me to head back across the ocean, home to England.  But before then, we’re ending our road trip in a place that feels like home now:  the North Carolina coast. This isn’t my first time to the Outer Banks.  It’s my third, in fact.  And every time I come I fall […]

A Day at the Plantation

Taking a break from downtown Charleston, we headed off on a quick twenty minute drive to nearby Mount Pleasant and spent the day at Boone Hall Plantation.  After all, what’s more Southern than a plantation, sparkling white in the sunshine! For $24 dollars, it was a day well spent.  Unlike other plantations, the all-in price […]

A Day in Charleston

  We arrived in Charleston in an almighty rain storm, having driven through near misses of lightning strikes and monsoon-like rain.  Of course, we still found time to call in at the store on the way to make sure we had chocolate and wine to take to our new temporary home 😉 After a lazy […]

A Flying Visit to Beaufort SC

After leaving Savannah, we were headed to Charleston as the next stop on my Southern Bucket List Road Trip.  I’m traveling with my parents and we like to break up long journeys, so Beaufort seemed as good a place as any to take a breather and enjoy a spot of lunch. Not to be confused […]

36 Hours in Savannah

Before I head home to England, I’m squeezing in my Southern bucket list on a whirlwind Road Trip.  First stop: Savannah, Georgia. With just 36 hours in this beautiful city, I knew that while I wouldn’t see absolutely everything, I would probably see enough to fall in love.  I was right.  Even though Scarlett O’Hara […]

Goodbye Raleigh

I’m writing this in an empty living room, sitting on an old, scratched and cushion-less rocker, the only lonely piece of furniture left.  The sofa is gone, the walls are clear – except for a few birthday balloons that have given up the ghost and dropped to the floor.  I am aching and stiff from […]

Walking these streets

It’s been almost a week since I finished work here and began to enjoy my last bit of time in beautiful North Carolina.  Monday – my last day with my colleagues – flew by and before I knew it my tired feet were stepping towards the international arrivals area of the airport.  I collected my […]