tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566014627425648302024-02-07T19:14:23.001-08:00Travel KaraKarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01505110067094374041noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656601462742564830.post-62884550310140091302015-02-05T13:46:00.000-08:002015-02-05T13:56:07.077-08:00A Walk In The Peak District<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I had no clue what the Peak District was, so I really had no idea what I was getting myself into when Ben and I got into our car and set off from London.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We ended up in this very tiny little village called Hartington, at a lovely little B&B called Stanner Cottage. You will find very little cell phone reception in this small town and limited wifi as well. If you're willing to step away from the busy life of cities and constantly needing to be connected, you'll be glad you came to such a place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It was a few days of nothing but hiking through the fields during the day and having a few pints of ale in the evenings.<br /><br />Never in my life have I been so impressed with the simplicities of day to day life. The trails had us wandering through people's livestock and across their farms.</span></div>
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Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01505110067094374041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656601462742564830.post-76199091537622242002014-09-25T14:46:00.001-07:002014-09-30T16:20:43.735-07:00Travel Kara, A Beginning. 3 Weeks in London<div style="text-align: center;">
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Am I going to be able to sleep on this plane?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Did I pack enough winter clothes?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Am I sure I budgeted correctly?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Whats the conversion rate again?!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">What if they lose my luggage?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Will he like me still?</span><br />
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....Oh yeah, guess I should explain that last one.</span><br />
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You see this was never meant to be a trip about a boy. Really! I promise! I had this big plan of traveling the world and starting it in London. I was ready to venture out to a place nobody knew me. I wanted to be a tourist of all tourists. Museums and Landmarks and making stupid jokes about having tea with the queen!</span><br />
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Then came Ben. He was a friend of a friend, and after one drunken night in Downtown Orlando, him and I inevitably became Facebook friends.</span><br />
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So after a long few months of texting, my trip had sort of morphed into a mixture of my exploring and my hopeless romantic dreams of finding love like in a sickeningly unrealistic Nicholas Sparks novel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So I set off to the airport for my first adventure with a brand new passport. I was already itching to get my first stamp into the pages (and then many more shortly after)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Queue child sitting directly in front of me running through the isle, continuously moving his seat forward and back as if it were an amusement ride, and, of course, screaming the sounds of pterodactyl calls for most of the flight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">To say I didn't get sleep that night would be a gross understatement. My head was pounding and I felt remarkably similar to those mornings after a night out filled with drinking and a crawl into bed at about 4am.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">After checking into my hotel I hit the ground running...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">At this time I had no plan of ever starting a blog, so I am missing photos of the things that matter most to talk about the wonders of the city of London, as well as, if I'm honest it ended up being a whirlwind of finding love in a foreign land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We spent almost every single day together while I was there, and Ben ended up being my "tour guide". Although he was quite an awful one. But I didn't care, I was having the time of my life in another country. Being immersed into a group of amazing people, spending my nights drinking pints at the pub and my days just wandering around without any sort of schedule or plan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I hadn't accomplished much of the touristy favorites on this trip, but I had a sneaking idea that this wouldn't be my last time I was going to be in that marvelous city they call London......</span></div>
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