I was first told about Cesky Krumlov over ten years ago by some backpackers on a Busabout tour. Ever since then I’ve wanted to come here and my boyfriends 30th birthday seemed the perfect time to do it. The most…
Archives for February 2018
Why ‘contraception clinics’ don’t work
I had a week off work, so I did what many women do when they have time off – important admin. On the Monday at midday I went to my local hospital to their contraception clinic, I had rung up…
Why I loved the sunny streets of Salvador
Salvador de Bahia, Brazil is not in the top google searches for Salvador as it is beaten by Dali and Allende, which goes to show how overlooked it is. Personally, it was one of my favourite places in Brazil and…
Why I started taking antidepressants after years of depression
I first went on antidepressants when I was 24. At this point, I had suffered from depression for over ten years. Just like when I was 21 and became extremely depressed after finishing university, I went to a dark place…
Why being unemployed caused my depression to get worse
The first time I admitted I was depressed was when I was 21. I’d had depression for most of my life at this point but this was a period where it seriously affected my life. I had finished university, moved…
Uruguay: South America’s sleepiest and safest country
Uruguay is the only country whose English name has the same letter three times in its first five. It is the second smallest South American country after Suriname, named after the Uruguay River, which means ‘river of the painted birds’…
My story of cervical ectropion
Cervical ectropion or cervical erosion is just one of the things that can go wrong with a vagina. I suffered from CE for over 10 years before I got treated so I thought I would share my experience for anyone else…
Whale watching in Peninsula Valdes
We travelled up the east coast of Argentina to visit Puerto Madryn, an uninspiring seaside city which is the gateway to the Peninsula Valdes reserve. This is a UNESCO World Heritage site which covers 400km of coastline ranging from cliffs,…
I went to Another Place on Crosby Beach
For a weekend away we went to Crosby Beach to see Another Place. We came on the train and we’d been out for our friend’s leaving do the night before so we were feeling a bit rough. It was totally worth…
How Patagonia made me fall in love with Argentina
Patagonia has mountains on such an epic scale that it is reminiscent of Switzerland on crack. It has its own Swiss, Welsh and German communities to prove it. The first thing to know about Patagonia is that it is huge…
A love letter to the beaver
I was walking through the Teifi Marshes reserve in Wales and I had a thought. I thought about how I would love to see beavers on the Teifi River. Incredibly, I discovered a leaflet at the visitor centre about the…