Catching Flights, Chasing Feelings

Travel, culture and society

  • Life in Albania

    Since coming back from my summer travels I have been trying to collect my thoughts about just how much this experience gifted me. I learned so much, about myself, about travelling, and obviously about Albania and the Balkans. Although tourism in these countries is on the rise, being home I’ve been asked so many questions…

  • Days off in Himarë.

    Given that Tirana is a super inland city and that we have been having a heatwave at the minute, I knew as soon as I got my days off I needed to hit the beach. I’d heard that the beaches down south were better than our closest beach which is Durres, so I decided to…

  • First Days in Tirana

    On my travels last summer I met a girl in Bratislava who told me about the wonders of Albania, insisting if I got the chance, it was somewhere I had to visit. Fast forward to a couple of months ago, I was searching Workaway to find a job for over the summer, applying to all…

  • 22 Hours in Milan

    As a budget traveller, I’m always looking for ways to visit the most destinations for the least money. One of my favourite ways to do this is through layovers. I’m currently on my way to Tirana to start my first ever work away, so when I was looking for flights and found a 22-hour layover…

  • A Way of Introduction.

    The difference eight years makes! Over the past months, I’ve been distracted by the idea of writing a blog. I decided to just do it; I grabbed my phone, typed ‘blog’ into Google, and was transported into my own account of an old blog website that all but Google had forgotten existed. Upon the page,…

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How it all started…

Back in 2022, my second summer in University, I decided I wanted to interrail. It wasn’t something that appealed to any of my friends so I decided to do it alone and the rest is history. I fell in love with what it meant to travel solo, the experience of getting out of my comfort zone, meeting new people and experiencing new places. Although I had the time of my life, I definitely made some mistakes that have formed into I guess you could say wisdom surrounding solo travel as a female. I started this blog to share the stories of my past, present and future travels and I hope you come along for the journey!

Lil 🙂