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The #Take12Trips Challenge

The #Take12Trips Challenge
I first came across the #take12trips challenge a couple of years ago and thought it sounded like a great concept. Taking 12 trips in 12 months? Yes please! If you love travelling it’s great, but as a student my immediate concern was funding it. It’s all well and good when you are earning a lot, or if someone is paying you to take those trips, but otherwise it just isn’t possible. Or so I thought… View Post

Everyone should learn to dance

Everyone should learn to dance
After watching the 2015 Strictly Come Dancing final last night (congratulations Jay!), I’m once again left wondering how I’m going to fill my Saturday evenings. There’s just something about the glitz and glamour that’s appealing, but also the fact that you genuinely get to see people go on a journey. Sometimes they just become better dancers, sometimes they lose weight, sometimes they become more confident – sometimes it’s a combination of all of them. View Post

Bank Holidays

Bank Holidays
Ah bank holiday weekends – a time that everyone looks forward to… Well actually, this is the first bank holiday weekend where I have been able to appreciate the fact that I get an extra day off work. In the past, I have either been working part time so it doesn’t make much difference, or I have worked in a pub and so the bank holiday has been spent working on one of the busiest days of the summer. This year however, I can sit back, relax and enjoy the weekend. View Post