All posts tagged: travel

Ticket Home

I’m excited, because I bought my ticket home. Home for the summer, leaving behind a leaky-bathroom problem (unless they’ll fix it before I leave, which I’m at the point of doubting, seriously); home to spend the summer with family and friends again. I had a blast last year, and I’m looking forward to a summer less busy, but more with family and friends. Here are a few of the highlights from last year:  

Hybrid Hub: A Mini-Book of Travels, Part 1

After lots and lots of cards that I presented to you in the hybrid hub over the last couple of months, I’ve got a special treat for you today. I finally managed to upload my finished mini-book project on my travels with my parents a couple of year ago. And today, I’m ready to present to you the first part. This is a full hybrid project for which I used lots of digital scrapbooking products that I printed, cut, and assembled into this book. Part 2 will follow next week.

Of Train Rides and Such

Traveling by train in China is a very peculiar thing. The first challenge you’ll have to master is obtaining a train ticket, which can get really tricky. On that part, I was lucky this time, because my friend booked our tickets online, so I didn’t have to bother about it. It was also unlucky, however, because the only train tickets he could get was tickets for an overnight train, and I never sleep well on trains. It further was unlucky, because my name doesn’t go well with the Chinese system, and however that worked out, but as soon as we’d gotten on the train, someone had figured there was something fishy about us. Because we hardly had sat down, when a train officer stopped by to check about the names on our tickets. (Now note: the average train ticket doesn’t have a name on it, and ours only did, because my friend had booked it online.) The problem was that the name on the train tickets (which were the correct names according to us) were …

On the Road Again

Guess what! This weekend one of my friends is getting married, and for me that means getting ready for another trip. It also means that I’ll be heading out some time this afternoon and I’ll be spending the night on a train. That in turn means it’s something I’m not quite looking forward to. Trains and nights and me don’t usually match well together, which also means that I’m about to experience a very tiring weekend. But at least it’s a wedding, and I’ll get to see one of my friends again, whom I haven’t seen in a long time. That counts for something, doesn’t it?