keep calm and carry on

First stop: London! August 3rd, 2012

Said goodbye to Nipi in Cordoba, Argentina in December 2010. Reunited again for a week of staying with him in London! Gorgeous first day in England, perfect for the Saturday Portobello Market in Notting Hill.

Downtown London, view from the Tower Bridge

With Nicolas & Flor (who I spent time with in Amsterdam & in Paris during exchange)

More reunions – Chiang Mai friends Natalie & Jonas

Ben from NOLA, last time we saw each other we were Panicin’ en la Playa, Mexico

Another beautiful afternoon around London with Nicolas & his girl friend, Mathi

The very lively Camden area

The more famous sites of London… The London Eye

Big Ben

Big Ben & houses of Parliament

Westminster Abbey

Buckingham Palace

Piccadilly Circus Area

Chinatown

View from the Tate Modern Art Museum

St. Paul's Cathedral

Abbey Road Studios (and the famous crossing from the album cover of the same name, which doesn’t look nearly as impressive without four Beatles walking across it!)

Pubs & teahouses

And the Princess herself…. Elisa! The start of our 8 weeks of holiday together

Together again: Denise (Munich, but last seen in Thailand), Nipi & Elisa

Brotha from another Motha ;)

The German beauties

From Amsterdam to London… Fabien!

Backyard dinner at Denise’s

Another reunion, with some fellow volunteers from the Escuela Katitawa in Ecuador! Big difference from Salasacca to London, so great to see these guys again! David & Hannah

Hayley

A truly amazing week in one of the most iconic cities in the world, with a big “thanks” to Nipi, Denise, Bulmers & Pimms!

"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Lao Tzu 

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it's a new dawn, it's a new day

Greetings! After a pretty long break am finally getting back on the road this week, heading to Europe & beyond for an indefinite amount of time. Hopefully no fractures of any bones this time around, would make the trip a lot more pleasant! Will be keeping up on the blog but in a new way.... instead of a lot of writing it will be more pictures with captions that hopefully will convey the story in more or less the same way. The writing was too much to keep up with while traveling and moving all the time, which is why I inevitably quit doing it after a time while on the road. First up, London! During the Olympics, too. This is going to prove interesting, I'm sure...

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