Being Becca: travelling

Saturday, 25 April 2015

A Trip to Berlin

A couple of weeks ago me and my old uni flat mate Annabel booked a last minute city break to Berlin! We stopped over last Monday and Tuesday at a Holiday Inn, and flights included it only cost us £100. I thought I'd do a quick post showing what we got up to. We actually went to Berlin a couple of years ago on a uni field trip so we had already done a lot of the site seeing and museums so there was no pressure to ram everything in on this trip.

We got there early in the day and after having a slight subway incident where we were charged €40 for not getting our ticket stamped (how harsh!) which we were very unlucky with as we didn't see any more ticket people after that! We headed to Potsdamer Platz for some lunch. Potsdamer Platz is a lovely area in Berlin and I definitely recommend visiting! Annabel had a jacket potato for lunch and I had crepes filled with smoked salmon and cream cheese (with toast on the side?!) It was really good.

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

Brandenburg Gate

Had to have a trip to a bier garten in the lovely weather! Unfortunately I'm not a fan of beer..

The weather was perfect both days, just a little breezy!

The bird flew off before I could get it in focus :(

Ready for a night out!

This was our attempt at dressing casual, as Berlin's nightlife is quite alternative and you don't get in if you're too dressed up, but we still got a lot of people commenting that we were over dressed! It was obvious we were English haha. Most people were in jeans but I didn't even pack any!

Whole outfit is from New Look, I wore lace up boots with a chunky heel.

Tresor, the club we went to was pretty good! We rolled out at 6am and the sun had risen!

This cool high end shopping centre we found near the zoo, it had massive windows where you could see over the enclosures!

Tea heaven!!

Chocolate milk to aid the hangover ;)

Sunbathing with a view of the city.

I swear this rhino was posing for me!

Life as a hippo looks pretty easy.

Sheep make the funniest noises!

This little goat somehow got out of his enclosure!

Just chillin'.

I can hear The Circle of Life Playing.

This monkey waved back at me!

How happy does this elephant look?!

Giraffe love

Our last meal, sat outside by the heaters with blankets!

Sad to be leaving :(

Have any of you been to Berlin? I would definitely recommend it, there's so much to do!

Sunday, 5 October 2014

My American Summer: Part Three - Travelling the East Coast

This summer after working at an American summer camp I went travelling and a friend and I decided to go on two treks. The second trek I went on was called American BLT, lasted two weeks and went from Miami to New York and I booked with Trek America through STA. This trek was all hotels and hostels, the best hotels seemed to be at the start, then they gradually got worse! It would have been better the other way around! I didn't feel the group bonded as much as we all did on the first tour, as it was a mixture of males and females but the age range was much greater. Also the trek leader wasn't as enthusiastic. But it was still a great trek and we got to see a wide range of places.

The highlights of the trip for me were Orlando, Panama City Beach, New Orleans and Nashville. At Orlando there was the opportunity to do a theme park, Panama City Beach had the most gorgeous beach I'd ever seen and I got in a full day of sunbathing! New Orleans was just crazy and I loved the creepy history behind the place, we went on a great ghost tour and the strip was a good place to go out at night. Nashville really surprised me as I wasn't expecting much! It was really lively at night and had an amazing strip to party on! And of course everyone was dressed in cowboy boots and hats, so fun! Also I should mention that we drove straight out of Miami so I didn't see much of that, and you don't have a night in New York so you have to book extra time there if you want to see it! We had booked five days there before we flew home so we got to see a lot.