Start Being Exciting Again
As a kid, I could never understand why people who got their ears pierced left the same earrings in day in and day out. Why would you do that when you had the opportunity to wear every different kind of earring you owned? I couldn’t understand why people who could drive stayed where they were, …
Why I’m Not a Famous Model
Earlier last year I had a brief foray into the glamorous world of amateur modelling. A friend of a friend was a photographer looking to bulk up his portfolio with a few shots, and was looking for someone to model for him. I thought “why not?” and volunteered to help him out. Of course I was …
Eurotrip
At the beginning of the year, I spent 48 days travelling around Europe from place to place, both with family, on my own, and with a Contiki tour. While the term "trip of a lifetime" is often overused, sometimes the shoe just fits. By spending so much time in all these places and with different …
Social Media is Not Destroying Holidays
You’ve all seen the articles before, claiming Instagram is taking away holiday memories, that Snapchat stops you from lingering in the moment, that in the quest for the perfect photo for Facebook, you forget to sit up and look around. Personally, I think it’s ridiculous. For one, a holiday is a holiday. You should be …
The City of Pubs
If Paris is the city of love, Dublin is the city of pubs. I almost certain a pub-crawl in this place would result in the participant either dancing on the tables or lying catatonic in a corner before even reaching the next block. But oh what a block it would be! Summer in Dublin is …
London
London is people. People bustling along the street, sitting in cafes, taking pictures, going places. There is not an inch of pavement or sidewalk you can claim as your own for fear of being trampled. The subways are worse. Walls of people march forwards to pack like sardines into carriages of more people. Nobody meets …
Morgaine Auton 