Globe Trotting

Last year I went on a trip overseas with my school to Greece/Italy/Vatican City(briefly)/Singapore(briefly). It was out of this world - almost literally for me, living in the middle of nowhere on a country that is about the size of a 50 cent coin. However incredible it was.. I would never recommend it for anyone else (travelling with a school, that is). The countries were phenomenal and the flying was great... But you are surrounded with about 30 other people that speak English, which meant that I never really got to absorb any sort of real culture, and had to get up at 7am every morning to visit as many museums it takes to make them all blur into one. Which is sad. There were some moments though when I got to take a step out of a Classics lecture and slip into the sublime of another country. Like Venice, for one. How fucking incredible is Venice? Some of the other students and I walked for as long as we could to get ourselves as lost as possible, then when they went and bought a bottle of Absinth I begun to find my way back to the hotel with another non-participant in the drinking. It was phenomenal. The moon on the water ways, the cobblestone footpaths. There was a walkway that came to a deadend at one of the waterways, and there were two teenaged girls with a bottle of some sort of alcoholic substance just sitting there drinking. That was my favourite moment whilst I was over seas.






Santorini was another favourite of mine. The white houses, the blue rooves, the donkeys! Unfortunately only now do I know of the animal cruelty that went on there. This is my favourite photo from the trip - there was a stray dog (I almost died of excitement with all the stray dogs over there, I patted them all. Did not contract raibies - fear not) lying on one of the rooves, so another student and I went and sat with him, admiring the view.




Another favourite was Tivoli. What a sweet little village that was. We drove to the top of it and went to an Abbey there. They had built hundreds and hundreds of water fountains. It was magnificent. The second photo - oh sweet jesus! There was a woman absorbing the sun, with her eyes closed. I liked her style. So I documented it.



And an assortment of others photos from other destinations such as Delphi, Orviato, the Mediterranean (about the only time I've ever worn a bikini) and a pet shop in Athens (animals were in horrible condition. On a lighter note, saw my first ever Chipmunks!)








There are about a quadrillion other photos that I've chosen not to put up here, for lack of time and will.

Where have you been that is worth making mention of?