Author Archive: The Imagination Trail
The Imagination Trail
June 1, 2015
As soon as I started planning my trip to New York last year, I knew that the 9/11 memorial would be on my list of places to visit. In some ways it felt a little grotesque putting a site where…
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The Imagination Trail
May 23, 2015
Food intolerances can be frustrating when you’re out and about. Sure, you can just bring some snacks that you know you can eat, but sometimes you get fed up of watching enviously while your coffee-shop companions munch on something sweet,…
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The Imagination Trail
May 18, 2015
Travelling by yourself can be daunting, especially the first time you do it. I’ve been taking trips alone for four years now; here are some of my solo travel tips to make that initial experience less scary. Think about your…
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The Imagination Trail
May 9, 2015
As a solo traveller, I’d never considered renting holiday or vacation apartments when choosing my accommodation. It seemed like a waste of space for just one person! However, when I was looking for somewhere to stay on the Greek island…
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The Imagination Trail
May 4, 2015
This week I decided it was finally time to have a go at vlogging! So here’s my video review of the film “Tracks”, which tells the (true) story of Robyn Davidson, who in 1977 set out to trek the Australian…
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The Imagination Trail
April 27, 2015
Whenever I told someone I was off to Transylvania for a few days, their reaction was usually a comment about vampires, or an admission that they hadn’t realised it was a real place! It’s certainly somewhere with associations which brings…
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The Imagination Trail
April 13, 2015
I can’t claim to have watched much Top Gear, and I am most definitely not a fan of Jeremy Clarkson, its now former presenter, but when I began researching how to reach Poenari Citadel, the “real” Dracula’s castle, in Romania,…
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The Imagination Trail
April 2, 2015
The rain that’s hammered the windows all the way across the grey-cloaked mountains and up the winding Transfagarasan Road shows no sign of stopping as we get out of the car and contemplate the steps ahead of us, leading up…
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Europe, Romania, travel
books, Brasov, castles, Dracula, Europe, literature, Romania, Transylvania, vampires
The Imagination Trail
April 2, 2015
This post was originally published on my first travel blog on 22 March 2015. It was my birthday this week, and to celebrate my boyfriend and I went to eat at a small Portuguese restaurant in Bedford that I’d heard…
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The Imagination Trail
April 2, 2015
This post was originally published on my first travel blog on 20 March 2015. Sometimes you don’t have to go very far from home to see something magical. Today, outside my workplace in Bedford, I witnessed the biggest solar eclipse…
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