I love day trips. Longer stays are nice as well, but day trips can be last-minute, spur of the moment decisions that allow you to see much of the country near you. With London and Cardiff booked for mid-term break, I was looking for a place nearby that I could easily (and for a reasonable price) travel to and that, of course, I fancied visiting. After some time staring at my Google Maps page, I decided that Oxford it would be. Obviously, Oxford was synonymous to...

Reading is my first "trip" after I moved to Newbury last Saturday. It is the biggest city around, besides London of course, and I thought I would go and get accustomed to it. I have quite naturally googled it before leaving France and now that I should be content from a capitalist point of view: it has some of my favourite shops, namely Lush and Whittard of Chelsea. Hurray hurray. So this morning, Emma gave me a lift to the train station before her 9:...