The process that I have been dreading has slowly started to begin. My parents are discussing my return flights, my friends are counting down the remaining days, and professors are assigning final exams and papers. Sure, I'm excited to reunite with my family and friends and get back to my university campus...but I'm nowhere near ready to return home! I feel like there is so much more to London that I haven't seen yet and I'm trying to do everything that I can in the remaining few weeks that I have here.

I cannot believe that at the exact moment in time I'm writing this, I am a day and a half from leaving Cape Town. Of course, by the time you read this, I will have less than that, or possibly even be already home. 

How? Read on. 

This weekend a group of friends of mine and I decided that we should take advantage of our location and bike on over to France. Another group of IES Abroad students had taken the journey the previous weekend and we heard great things. Our plan was to meet in the morning and rent bikes for the day. The bikes were about 14 euros and were great quality. We all packed a picnic lunch and planned to sit near the Rhine and eat once we reached Breisach. It ended up being a beautiful day with abnormally high temperatures for November and tons of sun!

I think back to the time when I was packing up for my big trip and googling heaps of information on what to wear on an average day in New Zealand. At first I thought to myself… “How on earth am I going to put 5 months of outfits in one suitcase?!” I noticed many people had mentioned about rain, but I’m guessing that might have been during late summer or fall when the rain comes because Spring stayed pretty dry for the most part.

Morocco - lyrics

[Intro] (inspired by end credits to Anchorman)

Oh, I didn’t see you there, welcome!

This is JB again

I'm just checking in to make sure you’re having a good time with my songs

Welcome to my little lounge, make yourself comfortable

1. Research about the city and know more than the touristic center  

I can not be happier when