This week’s Photo of the Week was taken at Mark’s birthday bash in the hills of Sairee. We rented a villa out and had a grand time swimming, chatting, and enjoying the view. I love birthdays, and can’t believe mine is just two months after Mark’s. Can’t wait to see where in the world I’ll be…

Athens was a whirlwind of heat, history, and protesters. It all began with a happy reunion in the arrivals terminal between my mom and I, having said goodbye six weeks before. We were not, however, joined by my mother’s luggage, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise since the country-wide taxi strike forced us…

So, I’m really stretching the limits of this Photo of the Week project. First, I retroactively changed one of the photos. Next, I took a still from a video. Now, I’m not even trying to pretend I took the picture.* But I’m okay with it. What started as a technical photography project has become more about…

While flying away from London marked the end of my six week adventure in the UK (well, technically one week of it was spent in Ibiza), it also kick started my two week adventure through another new region of the world- the Mediterranean. In the next two weeks I would experience lots of firsts: my first…

London By Bus As you may have noticed, all the London activities I covered in my previous post were free! We decided before we arrived that we would splurge on one thing, and that was the double decker bus City Sightseeing Tour, the same company we went with in Glasgow and Edinburgh. It is pretty pricey…

London is one of those places in the world that I felt I had been to already without ever having stepped foot in it thanks to a lifetime experiencing it as the setting or even main character of thousands of books, movies and songs. While it sits firmly on many traveler’s bucket lists, I had felt…