Ivan, my little brother turned 22 on the 6 July. That Saturday the 11 of July me and Shetal decided to go on an awesome bike ride to Amsterdam Noord. I had found a nice ride that eventually made it to Purmerend and we decided to give it a go. Shetal hired an awesome bike called Daisy and we headed to Centraal station to catch the ferry over. On our ride out we saw the coolest little space shit contraption riding along so I stopped to take photos. The next thing we did was loose the route we were meant to [View Full Entry]

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Shortly after getting back from the states I was beckoned to join Christy, Alex and Belinda to go to camp on the island of Texel (remember Texel when I went there with Diana, Francis and Isabella). I couldn't resist so I took them up on the offer. We caught the train to Den Helder again, then the ferry to Texel. Once on Texel we got the bus, past Den Hoom, past De Koog and all the way to that's right you guessed it De Cocksdorp. Christy had managed to finds us a nice little campsite by De Cocksdorp. While the others [View Full Entry]

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The next morning I got the train back to New York. It was delayed by 2 hours unfortunately because of some track work so instead of getting there at 10am I got there at 12pm. Nevertheless I got to see some sights before my flight which was departing at 4pm that day. I had to take my bags all around with me as they didn’t let me store my luggage at Grand Central station (and most stand alone lockers were now gone from Manhattan). Fortunately I was lucky that I didn’t really have that much stuff with me - a small [View Full Entry]

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I was really lucky to get invited to stay with Ryan and his family at their holiday home in Lincoln, New Hampshire. Ryan drove up on the 26 of June, and I came in his car - as we were leaving early. I had to be in New York on the 28 of June to fly back to Amsterdam. He didn’t mind only going for one day. The ride up there was pretty nice. Actually I really enjoyed New Hampshire, from the surrounding nature and the people who lived there. They were really friendly. When we got there we checked into [View Full Entry]

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The next day the 24 of June I went for a bike ride with Matt (Ryan’s younger brother) and his good friend Justo through the old rail road trail nearby their house in Colchester Connecticut. It was a really nice ride and kind of reminded me of riding through the Kentlyn bush or something like that back home. After getting home me and Ryan headed to the Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut. We got special passes that gave us a bit of discount from the library. The aquarium was pretty neat, quite similar to the Sydney aquarium - where you could [View Full Entry]

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The next day the 22 of June we headed back from Boston to Colchester. Ryan took me for a walk around Boston, and I got to see some of the older architecture in Boston. We finished off Boston with Faneuil Hall which is generally nice and happening in summer except when its raining. Well it was raining but it was still quite nice to walk around in. After driving back to Boston Ryan took break whilst I went for a bike ride around Colchester and down to the Babcock Pond wildlife management area. It was quite nice and peaceful and I [View Full Entry]

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After leaving New York I made my way to Connecticut by overland train. I was pretty pumped. I was going to see Ryan again who I had studied with 3 years ago in Hertfordshire, England. I was going to stay with him in Colchester and we were going to go to Boston and New Hampshire if we had the chance. It was super seeing Ryan again. Whatever awkwardness we had of not seeing each other seemed to disappear in 30 minutes and I felt like it was back to normal - how it was 3 years ago. Ryan was currently living [View Full Entry]

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The next day I was off to New York. Alyson dropped me off to the airport and it was a nice good bye. The plane was a bit delayed and I didn’t have any credit to let Jilly know. Luckily some dude on my bus from NYC let me use his mobile and I called her to let her know I was on my way. I met her at a bar in Grand Central station and we proceeded to catch a bus a couple of blocks away from Jilly’s house to do some more sight seeing around New York. We then [View Full Entry]

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Buysch Gardens was the port of call on the 18 of June. It was good fun! While to me Disneyworld was more well known as a Florida icon, Alyson suggested we go to Buysch as it was more fun for people our age. She wasn’t wrong! We got some subs for lunch along the way and then headed to Buysch Gardens. Our mission for the day - go on absolutely all the upside down rides we could. We had some initial hiccups with my ticket because it wouldn’t show up on my email and we needed it printed out. Luckily we [View Full Entry]

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Back in Sarasota Alyson heads to dance performance practice whilst I decide to stop being a slob and go for some sporting. I feel like we have been in the water for most of the day so instead of going for a swim in the in ground pool at Alyson’s gym I decided to go for a run. I donned my running shoes and decided to get. After passing Sarasota airport - which is really like next door to the university and the gym - you can literally fly in and fly out here - I saw a bike standing there [View Full Entry]

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