Long Haul travel goes from fun to not very quickly Long Haul travel goes from fun to not very quickly. But there is nothing quite like the post flight shower. Would you agree? ✈️🛀🚿
🇬🇹Guatemala Places you need to visit in Gua 🇬🇹Guatemala

Places you need to visit in Guatemala: 

🧡Antigua
🧡Acatenango Volcano
🧡Lake Atitlan
🧡Semuc Champey
🧡El Paredon 

Is Guatemala on your bucket list?
Reintroducing myself 🙋🏽‍♀️🌴🐢🏝 Reintroducing myself 🙋🏽‍♀️🌴🐢🏝️

Had to repost this because my audio got removed on the original even though my voice is my voice and no one else’s so let’s hope it’s second time lucky 😅
2 week Costa Rica Itinerary 🍃✌🏽🦥🏄🏼

Day 1 – Landing in San Jose
Day 2-5 – Puerto Viejo
Day 5-7 – Tortuguero
Day 7-10 – La Fortuna
Day 10-12 – Manuel Antonio National Park
Day 12-14 – Dominical
9  things to NEED to do on your Barbados holiday🌴🇧🇧:

🐟 Oistins Fish Fry on a Friday Night
⚡️ Go for a drink and swim @thunder.bay.beach.bar 
🌅Watch the Sunrise
🐢Swim with Turtles
⛵️Boat cruise with @silvermoonbarbados 
🌮Sunset Dinner @seashed_barbados 
🐎Watch the racehorses at Pebbles Beach 
🌊 Walk along the Hastings Boardwalk 
🌅Watch the sunset
📸=🧡 📸=🧡
TRAVEL OFTEN AROUND YOUR 9-5⬇️ 🟠 Obvious c TRAVEL OFTEN AROUND YOUR 9-5⬇️

🟠 Obvious choice but make use of the weekends. Fly out on Friday night and home Sunday evening. Really good to squeeze in a mini city break. 

🟠 For longer holidays use the same method as above. Fly out on a Friday night and home the following Sunday. You can get almost 9 days away and only have to take 5 days off work.

🟠 Make use of your bank holidays. Tag on an extra day off around a bank holiday. For example around the Easter break. 

🟠If you are flying on weekdays fly out late evening and fly home early morning so you don’t have to take those flying days off work.

🟠 Work from your holiday. Commit to working one or two mornings whilst you are away. This can help in saving up a few half days when you get to the end of the year. However this is probably not worth it on shorter trips

🟠 If you are able to travel with work. Make a holiday out of that by tagging on a few days holiday after the work trip is over.

Do you have any other tips?
The cutest audio. I heard it on TikTok but I could The cutest audio. I heard it on TikTok but I couldn’t find it on here. It’s from @aftersunmovie ⭐️🎆🌞🌙☀️🌅

Not normally a quotes girly but I think this is so sweet 🥹
📍The SPACE - San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua 🇳🇮 @thespace.sjds 

This is the perfect hostel for travellers looking to unwind and relax (unless you are there on a Sunday when it’s part of the Sunday funday bar crawl 🙈)

🛌Dorm rooms start from £11 and Private from £50 🛌

🚖 It located a 6 minute drive and a 30 minute walk outside of the town. They do offer a free shuttle bus to town and from town everyday!
✌🏽This did well on TikTok so sharing it here ✌🏽This did well on TikTok so sharing it here 

🧡One thing I’m super grateful for is my supportive boyfriend no matter how ludacris my ideas.

✈️He loves to travel and explore new places but it’s definitely not on the same scale as me! 

💻 He also doesn’t have a job that gives him the same freedoms as mine does 

🌎I’ll be leaving him for a while  very shortly, and Ive talked about how I want to go away for a few months at some point in the future. 

❤️Despite the fact we miss each other he’ll always support my travels whether he can come with me or not.
BEST THINGS TO DO ON OMETEPE 🌋 📍Swim Ojo de BEST THINGS TO DO ON OMETEPE 🌋

📍Swim Ojo de Agua
📍Hike to San Ramon waterfall 
📍Sunset at Playa Mangos
📍Lunch at Santo Domingo
📍Hike Volcan Concecipon
📍Walk the sandbar at Punta Jesus
Have I sold you on Nicaragua yet? 🇳🇮🏄🏽 Have I sold you on Nicaragua yet? 🇳🇮🏄🏽‍♀️🌴😎
🇳🇮GUIDE TO LITTLE CORN ISLAND 🌽🏝️ G 🇳🇮GUIDE TO LITTLE CORN ISLAND 🌽🏝️

Getting There ➡️

✈️🛥️Plane and Boat - The best option for less time but a bigger budget and those who suffer from sea Sickness. 

🛩️Fly from Managua Airport to Big Corn Island (1.5 hours)
🚣🏼‍♀️Boat Taxi from Big Corn to Little Corn (30 minutes) 

💰Approximate total Cost for 1 way = £100-£110 

🚎⛵️Bus and Boat - The best option for more time but a smaller budget 

🚌Bus from Managua to Bluefields (7/8 hours) 
Ferry from Bluefields to Big Corn (6/7 hours) 
🚣🏼‍♀️Boat Taxi from Big Corn to Little Corn (30 minutes) 

💰Approximate total Cost for 1 way = £16-£20

🛌Where to stay 

😎Graces Cool Spot $
🤿Yemaya Reefs $$$

👙What to do 

🌴Walk around the whole Island 
😎Chill out on Otto Beach 
🤿Go Snorkelling 
🦈Go Scuba Diving 
🌮Have Tacos at Tranqillo Bar 
🍺Drink Victoria’s at Beach Bar 
🌅Watch the Sunset and Sun Rise 
💤RELAX 

Would you visit Little Corn?
10-Day Nicaragua Itinerary 🌴🌊🇳🇮 1 nig 10-Day Nicaragua Itinerary 🌴🌊🇳🇮

1 night - Leon 🌋
2 nights -San Juan Del Sur or Popoyo 🏄🏽‍♀️
2 nights - Ometepe 🌋
2 nights - Laguna de Apoyo/ Granada 🛶
3 nights - Little Corn Island 🌴🌽

📆For those of us who are limited to 25 days of holiday a year - 10 days in Nicaragua is TOTALLY doable. You’ll be on a tight schedule and will need to spend more on transport/taxis to get to places on time …. but it’s all worth it. ✈️

⏰If you have more time, I would say stretch to 14 days and up some of the stays to 3 nights. This will give you a chance to relax in each location. 💤

Full-time travel/time freedom is the goal but for now, I’m grateful that I get to experience snippets of these beautiful countries! 

Would you visit Nicaragua for 10 days?
My toxic trait is wanting to be everywhere doing e My toxic trait is wanting to be everywhere doing everything all at the same time ✈️🌍🌴🌅
Day 8&9 - Nicaragua 🇳🇮 Day 8 📆 🤿We p Day 8&9 - Nicaragua 🇳🇮

Day 8 📆

🤿We paid $20 each to go on a snorkelling tour with with our guesthouse (Graces Cool Spot) 

🦈It was a 2 hour trip and we got to see lots of nurse sharks, plus others saw turtles, stingrays and lobsters which I missed

🚤Later that afternoon we had to leave Little Corn 😫. We were planning to leave the next day but they weren’t going to be running the boats to Big Corn due to the wind….. so if we didn’t leave we would have missed our flight. 

⚓️Something to be aware of if you’re travelling to the corn island’s

Day 9 📆

✈️We flew from Big Corn Island back to the main land early in the morning. 

🚕We then got picked up from the airport and we decided to go back to Laguna de Apoyo and stay @paradisonicaragua 

🍺 We spent our last day drinking turbo shandy’s and swimming in the lake (which was a lot warmer than we expected)
🌎Favourite places in Central America 🧡I’ 🌎Favourite places in Central America 

🧡I’m totally in love with Central America and I haven’t even scratched the surface yet (more countries to visit and more places to visit where I’ve already been) 

🌎Whilst I find it difficult to say where my favourite place is because they are all so different, here are some of my favourite places in each country I’ve been to so far:

Mexico 🇲🇽

🌮Valladolid 
🏝️Isla Holbox 

Guatemala 🇬🇹

🌋Antigua (+ Acatenango Volcano hike) 
🌊Lake Atitlan 

Costa Rica 🇨🇷

🦥Puerto Viejo
🏄🏽‍♀️Dominical 
🍃La fortuna purely for @arenal.lodge 

Nicaragua 🇳🇮

🌋Ometepe
🌽Little Corn Island

Still have so many places to visit in these countries but these are my fave so far 🧡
Day 7 - Nicaragua 🇳🇮🏝️ Today was a ver Day 7 - Nicaragua 🇳🇮🏝️

Today was a very chill day 😎

🍳We woke up for some brekfast and then headed off to explore the island. 

🚶🏽‍♀️We headed north of our hotel at Graces cool spot and walked as far around the island as we could, taking in all the beautiful views along the way. 

🌴The most popular beach on the island is Otto beach and we were going to stop here but the bar was shut and after all the walking we were super hungry. 

🍃We decided to walk through the island and into the main “town”. 

🎶We stopped off at a reggae bar  called “Beach Bar” for lunch and stayed there for ages drinking and catching some sun and going for dips to cool off. 

🌮We then headed back to get read for Tacos and Triva night at Tranquilo cafe. The tacos were AMAZING but our trivia was terrible. We came last 😅

One of my favourite days of the trip!
Day 6 - Nicaragua 🇳🇮 ✈️Today we had to Day 6 - Nicaragua 🇳🇮 

✈️Today we had to wake up super early to catch our flight to the Corn islands.

🚕We headed from Leon to Managua airport which was approx 2 hours drive (of course we used our fave driver David) 

🔖We checked in for our flight which was very easy  they give you a baggage receipt  which you must keep hold of as they check it the other end when collecting your luggage. 

🛩️💵The flights were roughly $111 one way with La Costena airlines (they are not on Skyscanner so we had to  book directly) 

💰We then had to pay a $2 tourist tax to board the flight 

🛫The flight was totally fine (I was a tad nervous but had no need to be. 

🚎The flight kind of works like a bus which was so new to me. There are no assigned seats so you just pick whatever is free. 

💙It first lands Bluefields airport where it lets passengers off and more people on. If you’re flying to Big Corn you just stay on the plane. 

⏰In total it was about 1.5 hours 

🚖Once we landed in Big Corn we had to catch a taxi to the ferry port. This cost us $1 per person 

💰Once we got there we then had to pay ANOTHER tourist tax for around $1 to enter the port. 

⛴️We then waited for our ferry to little corn. There are only 2 ferries a day to Little Corn 10am ($20) and 4:30pm ($10). Take a look at this last picture for more info on this. 

🏨Once we arrived we were greeted by someone from our guesthouse ( Graces Cool Spot) at the port and he walked us to the hotel. 

🍹Once we checked in we got showered up and had a little explore. We then spent the evening at at tranquilio cafe drinking cocktails with some lovely humans that we met at our guesthouse. 

Picture locations 📸
📸Big Corn Island Ferry Port
📸Big Corn Island Airport
📸Graces Cool Spot
📸Tranquilo Cafe
📸Little Corn
Graces Cool Spot- Little Corn Island 🇳🇮🌽🏝️

I did not want to leave. If you’re visiting Nicaragua, Little Corn is a MUST!
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Experience Days, UK · November 22, 2020

The Immersive Cocktail Experience: 7 Unmissable Bars to visit in London

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In recent years, there has been an abundance of bottomless brunch options popping up across London. From the standard bottomless Prosecco with your breakfast to a Fleetwood Mac sing-along, the list of options are endless.

Whilst most of us are partial to bottomless brunch, there is another kind of drinking experience in London that is capturing everyones attention – The immersive cocktail experience.

The Immersive cocktail experience gives the bottomless brunch a run for its money and after experiencing over 5 immersive cocktail experiences in London, I can totally see why!

Not quite familiar with the concept of an immersive cocktail experience? Think of it as the theatre meets the cocktail bar scene. These two elements are perfectly combined together to give you a fun-filled, boozy evening.

Whether you are heading out for a date-night, or an evening with your friends, there is an immersive cocktail experience to suit all occasions.

So, what are the best immersive cocktail experiences in London? Read on below to find out!

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1 The Bletchley
1.1 Location
1.2 Price
1.3 Theme
2 ABQ
2.1 Location
2.2 Price
2.3 Theme
3 The Grid
3.1 Location
3.2 Price
3.3 Theme
4 Alcotraz
4.1 Location
4.2 Price
4.3 Theme
5 The Murder Express
5.1 Location
5.2 Price
5.3 Theme
6 The Cauldron
6.1 Location
6.2 Price
6.3 Theme
7 Moonshine Saloon
7.1 Location
7.2 Price
7.3 Theme

The Bletchley

Location

459 King’s Rd, Chelsea, London SW10 0LJ

Price

£36 per person

Includes 1 welcome drink + 2 Cryptic/Mission Cocktails and 1h 45m inside the cocktail bunker.

Theme

As you might have guessed from the name The Bletchley is themed around World War 2 Enigma codebreakers at Bletchley Park. Here you will be able to dress up in Military costume that will be provided for you. You will then get the opportunity to use replica WW2 Engima Machines and your detective skills to help the mixologists here create the perfect personalised cocktails for you. The mixologists will ensure that you do not receive the same cocktail twice and if you don’t like what you have been given you can ask for something new without any issues.

ABQ

Location

18 Bohemia Pl, London E8 1DU

Price

£36 Per person

Includes 1 welcome drink + 2 molecular cocktails and 1h 45m inside the RV.

Theme

ABQ is based on TV series “Breaking Bad”. Here you will be able to step inside Jesse and Walt’s RV and start cooking up some cocktails. You will be provided with some cool yellow hazmat suits and a gas mask before you start experimenting in the lab – Remember it’s Safety first kids! 😉.

After your initial welcome drink, you will be able to select 2 molecular cocktails to make/cook up. This will give you a complete throwback to your year 11 science lessons, only a lot more fun, colourful and with alcohol involved. If like me you like to prepare ahead of time you can find the drink options here.

ABQ
ABQ
ABQ

The Grid

Location

Price

£29.99 Per Person

Includes 2 cocktails and 1hr30 mins inside the experience

Theme

The Grid is an escape room infused with a cocktail experience. Here you will find yourself at the ‘offices’ of an evil startup company named ‘Neosight’. Your mission is to outsmart their AI technology and save the world from extinction whilst enjoying some cocktails along the way. The aim of this escape room is to #ActNormal whilst you fool the Neosight team into thinking that you are there to help them.

Alcotraz

Location

212 Brick Ln, London E1 6SA

Price

£35 per person

Includes your prison pack for the duration of the experience, 4/5 cocktails from your smuggled liquor of choice and 1hr 45 mins inside the cell.

Theme

You must bring your own spirit that you have to “smuggle past the warden”. The staff will then take your spirit and make you some delicious cocktails throughout the night. We had 70cl of rum between 2 of us and were given 5 cocktails each. 

You are given a quick briefing and then an orange jumpsuit to wear. Your party is then taken to its own cell block where you drink for the night (a pretty perfect COVID set-up). The staff then provide you with entertainment along the way which I won’t go into as it will spoil it for you.

Cocktail Experience
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Cocktail Experience

The Murder Express

Location

 63 Pedley St, Greater, Bethnal Green, London E1

Price

£60- £67.50 Per Person

Includes 4 course meal (drinks sold separately) and 2 hours inside the experience.

Theme

The Murder Express is in actual fact an immersive dining experience, rather than cocktail so, therefore, is the most expensive on this list. But, in this case, you certainly get what you pay for. Much like the movie ‘Murder on the Orient Express’, the experience takes you back to the early 20th century and is set on a luxury train. The train doesn’t move but the windows do contain LCD screens that show footage shot from a genuine steam railway train in the Welsh Highlands.

During your time here you will be served a 4-course meal prepared by a MasterChef finalist (drinks in this experience are sold separately). Make sure to prepare for some fun and intense theatrical moments during all of your courses.

The Cauldron

Location

5d Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London N16 8BH

Price

Option 1: £25 Per Person for Bottomless Unicorn Gin

Includes 1 hour of bottomless gin in a magical booth.

Option 2: £35.99 Per Person for The Magical Cocktail Experience

Includes 1 welcome drink and 2 molecular cocktail potions and 1hr 45mins of spell casting.

Theme

The Cauldron, as you may have guessed, has a wizard/witchy, Harry Potter-esque theme. Here you can find two different cocktail experiences to choose from.

The first is a bottomless unicorn gin experience. This gives you 1-hour access to a magic wand. This wand enables you to pour glittery pink gin from a mystical unicorn’s head. If you want to mix it up between gins you can also purchase additional potions from their cocktail menu.

The second cocktail experience on offer is a magical potion experience. You are given a full wizard/witches outfit (including wand) and have almost 2 hours to cast spells and make potions (cocktails).

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Cocktail Experience

Moonshine Saloon

Location

28-30 Houndsditch, London EC3A 7DB

Price

£35.99

Includes your Saloon pack for the duration of the experience, 4/5 cocktails from your smuggled liquor of choice and 1hr 45 mins inside the saloon.

Theme

Moonshine Saloon is from the same creators of Alcotraz so has a similar setup. This time, however, the experience takes you to the Wild West. The premise here is to smuggle Moonshine (your spirit of choice) into the saloon without being caught by the sheriff and of course, you will be given a Wild West Costume to help you blend in and avoid being caught. Again there will be some extra surprises along the way.

So the question is what one will you try?

If you know of any more immersive cocktail experiences in London that you think should be added to the list then let me know!

If you are looking for more city adventures check out my guide to Copenhagen.

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Long Haul travel goes from fun to not very quickly Long Haul travel goes from fun to not very quickly. But there is nothing quite like the post flight shower. Would you agree? ✈️🛀🚿
🇬🇹Guatemala Places you need to visit in Gua 🇬🇹Guatemala

Places you need to visit in Guatemala: 

🧡Antigua
🧡Acatenango Volcano
🧡Lake Atitlan
🧡Semuc Champey
🧡El Paredon 

Is Guatemala on your bucket list?
Reintroducing myself 🙋🏽‍♀️🌴🐢🏝 Reintroducing myself 🙋🏽‍♀️🌴🐢🏝️

Had to repost this because my audio got removed on the original even though my voice is my voice and no one else’s so let’s hope it’s second time lucky 😅
2 week Costa Rica Itinerary 🍃✌🏽🦥🏄🏼

Day 1 – Landing in San Jose
Day 2-5 – Puerto Viejo
Day 5-7 – Tortuguero
Day 7-10 – La Fortuna
Day 10-12 – Manuel Antonio National Park
Day 12-14 – Dominical
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