Trigger warning: In this article, I talk about how COVID-19 has impacted my mental health, including my experience with depression, anxiety and having suicidal thoughts. ”Depression is an illness, not a bad phase.” I relearned that this year, and after five years, I decided to go back on antidepressants. I read somewhere that depression is …
Craig is an essential worker, and travelled to Bruges, Belgium for work in August/September. He works as a UAV Pilot, carrying out safety inspections on wind turbines, flare tips and electricity towers. Had it not been for work, I wouldn’t have been venturing from UK shores at all in 2020. I love travelling and it’s …
The last three years have been filled with so many adventures that I worried when I settled in one place life may get a little boring. However, my plans for 2020 so far are going to be anything but. This is what I have planned. >> Read my past travel summaries here Ringing in the …
I love books, and what’s better than books about Scotland? I can still remember when my mother took me to the library as a young girl. I could take out a maximum of 20 books at a time with my membership, and I was always at the limit. Before I moved to Scotland, I had …
It wasn’t until my first solo trip to China in 2015 that I realised how addictive solo travel can be. My first solo trip wasn’t actually meant to be solo; I broke up with my boyfriend two weeks before we were meant to go to China together. I went anyway, and had the time of …
We did it- we got married! The past 10 weeks have been such a crazy journey. We got engaged, planned a wedding and then tied the knot one year to the day we met on January 17, 2020. Our wedding was honestly the best day of my life. I wouldn’t change a thing about it. …