Life is a journey

(This post contains affiliate links, for more information read this  privacy policy ) Abu Dhabi is the perfect location to plan a little stopover when you are on your way to your final destination. I also love flying with Etihad. When I was heading to South Korea last month, I actually found a great flight that was stopping over there, which I turned into two days in Abu Dhabi. It’s nice to split up long flights into two shorter trips. Believe it or not, but it was actually cheaper to stopover for two days in Abu Dhabi than to continue my flight straight away. I actually had almost three days, I arrived early in the morning and left late at night But the following activities can easily fit into just two days, as I didn’t really do a lot on my last day apart from lying at the beach. Now let’s get into it, this is how I spent two days in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Day 1 My flight arrived at 6am in the morning and it was the first time that m...

I landed at Heathrow airport and bounced my way through security and into the arms of my sister, Victoria. It would have been more exciting if she’d actually recognised me. It had been two years since I last saw her and I’d changed a lot since then — though I didn’t realise I’d changed so much physically. Victoria had to look at the squawking girl waving manically in her direction a couple of times before realising that the girl was, in fact, me. Flying into Heathrow — I can see my house from here! Like most visits back home, I planned for friends and family time, as well as taking a trip to a doctors to see if I had contracted cholera or dengue or Travel Death. This time, however, I was visiting because I had swollen, painful glands all over my body for seemingly no reason. I was convinced I had lymphoma and had begun making plans for how this would affect my travels — you know, how I’d fit in chemotherapy around flights. I breathed ...