Scotland: Glencoe

MY FAVORITE.

Here, i felt that Scotland just made it to my top countries list with New Zealand. I took a bus directly to Glencoe visitor center. From there, I walked a few miles east..

Belgium: Bruges

Bruge is considered to be the cultural capital of Europe. This city didn’t have much going for it until the late 1800’s when they…

England: Cambridge

The two best universites of the UK are called: Oxbridge, the mix of Oxford and Cambridge. Although none of the Harry Potter movies were filmed there, I went to go visit Stephanie — who is studying abroad there — and because the Caltech house system is modeled after Cambridge’s college system.

Split, Croatia

Croatia was on my list of places to go, because I had seen a Korean show where a bunch of middle aged ladies visited Plitvice National Park and adorable little villages.. But due to some intense failure on Norwegian Airlines’ part, I lost nearly two days here. So, I was here for one afternoon. This is…

Scotland: Oban

As bitter as I may have been at one point in Lloyd, it is my second home and the reason why Caltech is still a positive influence, and I love it. Through an alum, I found out that Fingal’s Cave — one of the alleys in Lloyd — is an actual place in Scotland. So I couldn’t miss it. So I went on a tour…

Italy: Rome

Rome was a severely disappointing city. Not because there wasn’t enough to see, but there were just so many tourists and people in general. And the whole city, compared to Florence was severely uninviting.

Scotland: Edinburgh

Other Caltech students were studying abroad in the University of Edinburgh, so I decided to give them a visit!

I got a roll of haggis, because come on, I’m in Scotland:

Italy: Venice

Italy! This was one of the countries that I would not have missed for any reason! Full of life, art, and culture ❤

I flew into the Venice airport, which is also just in the middle of the ocean. There are multiple ways to transfer, but the best way (though a bit more expensive…

England: Bracknell

Because I’m crazy about Harry Potter, I went to go see the actual location of Privet Drive where it was filmed. Just a train ride away to the station called Martin’s Heron — on a small street called Picket Post Close — is where it Dudley’s house is.

England: Bath

After the Stonehenge tour, the student tour went to the city of Bath, where we visited the main park, and the circus around it — the row houses made in a circular fashion is called a circus, apparently.