
Catch up with my travels (Part 1)…
As you know a week after my last exam I left Leicester for a few weeks of travelling and sunshine! We flew out to Bangkok for the start of a couple of weeks exploring Thailand! The first night we stayed in Bangkok in an amazing hotel which was very snazzy as a celebration of me […]

A trip to London – Food
If you have read my last blog post you’ll know that I recently spent a weekend in London! I have already written all about the museums and art galleries we visited – check out my previous post! This time I’m going to write about the amazing places we went to for food! On the first […]

A trip to London – Museums and Art Galleries
Last weekend I had a wonderful weekend away from the stress of third year in London! The trip was a birthday present from my boyfriend and as it was far more interesting to write about than my never ending days in the library I’m going to do a two part blog post about what we […]

Birmingham Christmas Market
After the end of term, on Saturday, I went to the German Christmas Market in Birmingham. The market is along New Street and in Victoria Square, which is all very close to Birmingham New Street Station if you are getting the train from Leicester for the day (I got an open off peak return for […]

A Visit to Kew Gardens
This weekend to celebrate the end of my summer placement me and my family headed down to London for the weekend to visit Kew Gardens. We stayed in an Airbnb just North-East of the Chilterns, near Dunstable. It was a lovely apartment out in the countryside (quite near to Ashridge Estate which we visited on […]

Italy – Part 1:
I’ve spent the last two weeks travelling and enjoying the Italian sunshine. As I do with a lot of my posts that are longer ones I’m going to do this in two parts, just to make it easier to read! I went with a group of girls that I met at uni this year; they […]

My Summer Placement
I’ve already written about the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School and I mentioned in that post that because I enjoyed it I organised a three week placement working in the University Botanic Gardens and the herbarium with Dr Gornall. It may seem a long way off but the summer is a great opportunity to do […]

My first few months on club committee
The Freshers Fair is only just over and it’s the start of the year, but for anyone who is on a club committee Freshers signalled the end of the first few months being a committee member and one of the busiest times of year. I thought I’d let you all know a bit about what […]

Gatsby Plant Science Summer School
Throughout your first year at university you will be told over and over to make the most of your incredibly long summer holidays. For Biological Sciences students there are loads of options from travel scholarships to summer jobs and internships. It seems a bit full on in your first year to be thinking about all […]
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