This is a bit of an oldie. It’s a trip from May 2014 which we never got round to writing up. We were both living in Germany at the time, and Lucy was based near Hildesheim, on the edge of the Harz Mountains. As part of our University course, we had studied ‘Die Harzreise’, a travel narrative by German Romanticist Heinrich Heine, which describes his journey through the mountains.
Two Tickets To… Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland! Part Two
This is the second part of our week of travel in Dumfries and Galloway. You can read part one of our trip to Scotland here!
Day Four: Discovering Kirkudbright
This was our long-distance travel day – well, relative to the rest of the week anyway! Just over an hour’s drive took us to the charming inlet town of Kirkcudbright. The drive itself was lovely – lots of winding, deserted country roads took us past lochs, forests and rolling hills. We had a little break on the shores of one of these lochs, and what struck us was just how silent it is when you get out of the car. Dead quiet. No other people were anywhere near, and no vehicles were roaring in the distance. That kind of thing doesn’t happen in England. The exceptions are perhaps the Lake District, and deep in the Yorkshire Dales.
Two Tickets To… Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland! Part One
We thought we’d kick off the blog with our most recent bit of travel (we have quite a backlog to get through!). Funnily enough, this was probably the smallest distance we’ve ever travelled together – a relatively quick trip up the motorway and across the border to Scotland! Here’s an account of our 2015 travel to the beautiful Dumfries and Galloway.
A warm welcome to our new blog – Two Tickets To!
Hello, and welcome to “Two Tickets To” – a travel blog which will document the wanderings of two recent graduates around Europe and beyond.
We hope you’ll enjoy reading what should be quite a wide variety of content.