drunkonwander

When I think of Santorini, I think of the bright blue sea, white caves and sun. Hand on heart, Santorini lives up to EVERY single image I have ever seen of it- it is a little heaven on Earth and now I really want a holiday home there LOL! I went with my sisters in the August of last year and we managed to book an apartment (Villa Pezoula) and flights for only £388.00 for a duration of 5 nights (found flights on Easyjet and apartment on booking.com). The flight was only 2/3 hours and when we arrived, I was taken aback by the TINY airport- it looked like a back room and didn't have anything fancy, it was quite literally for arrivals and departures. This didn't bother me though as the queue for passport control passed fairly quickly and soon enough, we were out in the beautiful HEAT!! We we were greeted by a driver from the apartment and he picked us up aswell as another British couple. The airport was roughly a 30min drive from where we were staying in Finikia and we lea...

In the August of 2014, when my sisters and I decided to embark upon our first travelling adventure, Istanbul was a city that quickly came to mind. It is the home of the Blue Mosque , good food and twirling dervishes. We booked our flights via easy jet and I remember them being fairly cheap, no more than £200, and we then went on to look for a good hotel. After reading reviews and comparing prices, we decided to go ahead and book Cenevre Hotel which was just a 15 minute walk from Taksim Square. On the day of our trip, we flew from Luton airport and the flight was very pleasant. Upon arriving in Istanbul, we noticed a lot of hustle and bustle and found it difficult finding a taxi that would take us to our hotel. Why did we find it difficult finding a taxi to take us to our hotel I hear you ask? Not because it was busy, no, there were plenty of taxis about- it just so happened that none of them knew where our hotel was :) :). FIRST RED FLAG. After about 20 minutes of trying to explain d...

On the 6th of May, my sisters, friends, and I decided to go to Venice for the day! It is always spoken about so beautifully and when tickets are only £77, why not! Again, we booked our tickets a week in advance via skyscanner. We were to depart from Gatwick at 8.25am via Monarch Airlines and return 10.30pm via Easyjet at Gatwick. The flight was not long at all, it was 1h40m each way and having never flown on Monarch Airlines, I was pleasantly surprised that the plane was clean, spacious and well kept. As soon as we got off the plane, we made our way to passport control which was fairly quick and then found the transportation stand. You can buy transport tickets from the airport to the main square via machines or on the actual desk, we decided to buy via the desk just to make sure we were buying the correct tickets. There is a choice of bus, water taxi or speedboat. The bus is the cheapest option and if I remember correctly, it costs only around 15 euros for a return ticket. We decide...

Amsterdam, the home of the Anne Frank museum, Red Light district and of course, cannabis! I had been wanting to visit Amsterdam for a while as everyone always rages about it, I finally did and I would go back in a heartbeat. My sisters and I decided we would do a day trip as time was tight and it turned out to be PERFECT. We booked our tickets a week before (they were much cheaper had we booked earlier), they cost £83 each and we flew with British Airways. I took 40euros spending money and still had money left over. We flew from Heathrow at 6.45am and were due back at 19:35pm. This gave us about 10 hours to experience Amsterdam. The flight was only 2h15m, so we arrived in Schipol Airport at around 10am (the time is an hour forward). As soon as we got off the plane, we made our way to the "meeting point" which is a big red and white wall, and it is near here the train tickets are sold. When buying tickets you have 3 options. 1) buy them online in advance. 2)buy them ove...

If, like me, you are working full time or are studying full time, the dream of travelling feels like something that should be long forgotten until your 70's. You have exams, deadlines to meet, clients to email,- travelling just doesn't fit in and cannot be a priority. Not only is time an issue, so is cost! Travelling is expensive and you need your life's savings in order embark upon the world, right? Wrong! Until mid-last year, I was under the impression that travelling was expensive and time consuming. My sisters and I only really started going abroad in 2015 (I was 16) and it was there my wanderlust began. Two years later, going abroad once a year is not enough- I want to be experiencing somewhere new at least once a month, and there is an affordable, effective way to do it. DAY TRIPS: Yep, that's right, you can experience much of the world in just a day. Of course, this is subjective for different people, but, for me it works and it may do for you too. When trave...