Oh, I forgot to post this. Technically I should have posted it first to make chronological sense…but oh well. I’m not entirely sure what building this is, but it was on the street I stayed at in Nashville. It was so much bigger than I expected, and grander. It’s a really cool city, it has a unique vibe and it’s alive.  I’ve loved visiting the Southern states after years of visiting the more commercial, tourist driven parts of America. It makes me sad to think that it’s all gone so quick, but I’ve had such a great time and done some of the coolest things, that I will always remember.
This is New Orleans’ skyline, or the French Quarter part of it, taken from a steamboat on the Mississippi. It was taken on my last day, in New Orleans, and in America. After heavy rain and thunderstorms the day before the sun was out and it was wonderful.
Ok, so this is the view out of my hotel room window in Lafayette, Louisiana. That’s the Vermilion river in the background, and I don’t know what kind of flowers the pink ones are but I saw them quite a lot over there and they are lovely. I’m very much in love with California, exclusively San Francisco. The south is beautiful though, very green so there’s a slight feeling of ‘home’, but also very similar to Florida with all the swampland and the humidity. It’s very true about the South being polite and friendly, everyone is so nice and complete strangers will even start up a conversation with you. When you come from England, it’s well, a bit of a contrast. There’s a certain charm there.

Ok, so I haven’t really explained what I did on holiday this year, and I have done some amazing things previous years, like fly over the Grand Canyon, see the night sky lit up like a Christmas tree in Death Valley and walked Golden Gate bridge, I can’t believe that one country can be so diverse, so incredibly beautiful.

It’s easier to list what I did in a text post and then post some of the decent-ish photos I took. If anyone is interested in what I did then you can read about it here…well if you’re reading this then you obviously already are…but I want to savour it and remember all the great things that I have been fortunate enough to be able to do and the gorgeous places I have seen.

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11:03 pm  •  14 August 2011  •  1 note
This is where I went this year! We weren’t even sure if we were going to go on holiday this year- the day before we were supposed to leave and take a plane some guy crawled through the 12 ft hedge at the back of our house and was obviously trying to burgle it. We had to get the police out and everything. He had the worst excuse as well, we had no idea who he was or anything, he just emerged into our garden. Anyway, we did decide to go on holiday in the end, although everyone was pretty worried about leaving our house and stuff for 2 weeks. Luckily everyone was in the house when the guys tried it and everything was fine when we got back, thank god. So that was fun. On the way to Heathrow I saw Yannis Philippakis, the lead singer of Foals, he got the bus I was taking. I knew he looked familiar. What else happened? Oh, my suitcase when we arrived in Nashville had had the zips ripped off it. So when it came to taking my stuff out I couldn’t undo it, I had to break the seal with my fingers and then that meant I couldn’t do it up again afterwards, so I had to buy a new case in America. Typically everyone else’s stuff was fine though, just like on the way back mine was the only bag to be searched, with all my dirty laundry in. Anyway, at least with the zip broken everything managed to stay in, I don’t know what I would have done otherwise! I am super jet lagged now, I went to sleep at 6am last night and woke up at 4pm. I miss American food and tv as well, I am hooked on The First 48, Billy the Exterminator, Storage Wars, American Pickers, Pawn Stars, Spongebob Squarepants and prison programmes. I have been happily reunited with English bacon and cheese though and no longer have to use American public bathrooms…why can you see everything through the gaps in the door?! Anyway, I don’t know if anyone’s actually interested in where I went or what I did…but I’ve been to and seen such cool places that I’m going to post about it regardless! I have a love affair with America, there is just nowhere quite like it.
I will live here.