Only 18 days until I’ll be in Edinburgh! I absolutely cannot wait. My sister and I will be renting a car and traveling around Scotland, then spending a few days in the Belfast, Northern Ireland area, before moving down into Ireland and exploring as much as possible. As a serious history lover, I’m super excited about exploring castles, as well as just traipsing through the streets and walking in the countryside.
Yay!
Bali Round # 2!
Some mates and I have booked a ten day trip to Bali in August/September 🙂 Sooooo excited! We’ll be dividing our time between Kuta and Ubud. For those that aren’t familiar, Kuta is the main “city” in Bali – lots of hotels, shopping and partying. Very touristy, and filled with Australians. One of my friend’s sister’s lives in Ubud in a place without running water or electricity – that’s where we will be staying. It’ll be challenging but incredibly interesting. Hopefully I can hack it!
Other than that, I’m really not sure what travel plans I have! I’m contemplating going to Sri Lanka in December – it’s a relatively cheap holiday and I haven’t been in 5-6 years. It would be super interesting to see the changes since the end of the civil war. For next year I’m still throwing around plans about moving to Europe for a few months. Has anyone done that? I’m looking into programs that set up work and accommodation for you – so if anyone has experienced it, please comment and let me know!
Hollywoooooooood!
Oooh, I did love LA. It was a little superficial, but for the most part the people were chilled out and down-to-Earth. We stayed at a hostel in Hollywood, but we would have preferred to be closer to Venice Beach or Santa Monica pier. Still, it was pretty great.
We were all riding the line of poverty, so we didn’t do too much those few days. Brandon came for the weekend, which was awesome, and we just hung out. The local bar was great (and cheap). We also went to Hooters for some food and a comedy show, which was pretty fun.
Sunday night I flew out.
Ahh, Vegas. SO much fun! As soon as I got into the city I loved it. Bright lights, crazy buildings and lots of old people 😀 But really, the vibes the place gave off were so positive and exciting, I didn’t quite expect that.
We arrived in the evening, so as soon as we got to our hotel (which had it’s own chapel – yay!) we started getting ready for our night out. We got relatively smashed at the hotel and went out. We met some random guys and they advised us to go to Pure nightclub at Caesar’s Palace. Apparently it’s a place where famous people go and shit, which makes sense because it was rather uppity and like $11 for a drink. It was fun, but we decided to leave after an hour or so. Unfortunately, we went to Hyde nightclub at Bellagio only to find it was shut – apparently not everything is open on a Tuesday? We walked around, took some snaps, and went hope far too early.
The next day we did some shopping, sightseeing and hung out. At night we started round 2. We went to a fancy party at Encore, got our own room with free drinks, and then later got escorted out cos the girls jumped into the pool -_-
Before we knew it, we were leaving. We all wished we had more time in Vegas. The nightlife isn’t really our scene (we like gritty, messy fun) but it was still amazing because of the atmosphere. Loved it!
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