London – Within striking distance

Terminal Report: London City Airport (LCY), London, United Kingdom – Departures

In this report, we’ll go through the experience of using London City Airport (LCY) as a departing passenger.

Rail Report: London to Edinburgh on the “Caledonian Sleeper” Overnight Train (06-07 June 2022)

Just a few weeks shy of seven years since my last overnight railway journey, I set off from London to Edinburgh on a night-time trip aboard one of the UK’s last remaining sleeper trains. Welcome aboard the Caledonian Sleeper.

“Tell the Queen I’ve come for tea”: Day 1 of my UK adventure (5th June 2022)

Before the pandemic began, I maintained a comfortable habit of visiting Japan and Korea on an annual basis…and venturing pretty much nowhere else. (Not even to other parts of the Philippines outside my home region.) Sure, the occasional family holiday would take me on detours beyond that well-trodden path, but as a solo traveller myContinue reading ““Tell the Queen I’ve come for tea”: Day 1 of my UK adventure (5th June 2022)”

“Mum, I’m going out for my visa appointment”: The lead-up to my 2022 UK adventure

Step into my shoes for a moment. It’s early 2022. The pandemic’s been raging for the better part of two years, you’ve been imprisoned in your own backyard for all that time due to border closures, you’re bent over from work stress at a job that you loathe, all the news that you see onContinue reading ““Mum, I’m going out for my visa appointment”: The lead-up to my 2022 UK adventure”