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Sharing with you resources that helped me with travel planning + inspiration:

Books: Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species; Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, and Oliver Twist; Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology; Charlotte Bronte’s Wuthering Heights; C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia; Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe; Emily Bronte’s Jane Eyre; Frances Burnett’s The Secret Garden; Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales; George Eliot’s Middlemarch; George Orwell’s 1984; Howard Pyle’s The Story of King Arthur and His Knights; Ian McEwan’s Atonement; Jane Austen’s Emma, and Pride and Prejudice; J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series; Nicolas Ostler’s Empires of the Word; Peter Haugen’s World History for Dummies; Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka and Matilda; SparkNotes’ Shakespeare Study Guides (for I honestly hardly understand the original text); Thomas Hardy’s Far from The Madding Crowd; Tim Marshall’s The Power of Geography; W. Hodding Carter’s Flushed; William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (I can’t recommend any Virginia Woolf book as I haven’t read any yet). For reviews, visit Goodreads and Scribd*.

Shows: A Life on Our Planet, Geography Now!, The Harry Potter series, The Imitation Game, Winnie the Pooh (surprisingly, I learned so much about English culture from this series!)

Tourism sites: free walking tours: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales; Nomadic Matt: England, Scotland; official tourism website

Travel planning sites: Airalo eSIM ($3 discount code: RAIZEL7816)*, Airbnb, Booking.com*, Skyscanner, World Nomads*

(*Note: It helps keep this site going every time you sign up or book from these links. I am a big fan and have been using these sites since 2015. If this blog helped you in any way, it doesn’t hurt to make your booking from these links. Thank you!)

P.S. My keys to sustainable travels: acknowledge that your trip might not go as planned | back up important files before and during travel | bring a portable multi-cooker, coffee/tea press, food containers, utensils, water bottle, water heater, and clothesline rope | bring extra medicines and prescription | bring souvenirs from home for friends you’ll meet along the way | get a local sim card | get travel insurance | have an extra card to be used only for emergencies | learn the language if you deem it necessary | listen to your gut | only bring stuff that you can carry on your own | it’s okay to get adventurous with food, but only go for what’s vouched as clean and safe | record and stay on top of your expenses | stay in accommodations where cooking is allowed | take public transportation | treat everyone and yourself with kindness and respect, as always | treat guidebooks as guides; don’t get boxed by them | visit local cafés, markets, and parks (if the weather and security situation permit) | walk as much as you can | wake up early | when faced with difficult decisions, ask yourself why ❤