Just Muddling Through Life

25 June 2021

Charlotte Travel

Isle of Arran Day Trip | Scotland

The Isle of Arran sits just off the west coast of Scotland, tucked into the Firth of Clyde. A friend and I took a weekend trip to the island, and nearby Ayrshire recently. This is, therefore, the first of two posts about the whole trip! Initially we had planned to…

3 May 2021

Charlotte Musings & Thoughts

Writer’s Block Word Vomit

I'll be quite honest gang: I don't know what this post is going to be. I've just sat down to start writing, and we'll see where it goes. I've been struggling to write lately, so I thought the best option was to just start something, anything, and see if it…

25 March 2021

Charlotte Environment, Health & Wellness

What is Eco-Anxiety and How Do We Handle It?

Climate anxiety or eco-anxiety is, to boil it down to the basics, fear caused by climate change and environmental disaster. It's the feelings of dread you experience when you think about the environmental problems our planet is facing. It's the awful sense of fear when you contemplate what our future,…

6 March 2021

Charlotte Health & Wellness, Travel

Edinburgh Walking Routes | Hiking Scotland

Edinburgh is a city known for its 'Seven Hills', which naturally offer a wide choice of hiking routes without leaving the city limits. However, hiking hills all the time isn't for everybody, and even someone like myself who enjoys hiking, occasionally wants to go for a walk that doesn't involve…

26 February 2021

Charlotte Life

Things to Know About CELTA Courses

Anyone in the world of ESL teaching has probably heard of the CELTA before. It's one of the most-listed requirements for many employers when you're seeking an English language teaching job. My teaching experience up until now was done based off an online TEFL course. But with all this extra…

19 February 2021

Charlotte Health & Wellness

Things to Know About Yoga

So I've been practising yoga now on and off for about seven years, but consistently for the last four, mainly using the Yoga with Adriene YouTube channel at home (not in person classes). As someone who never liked sports and exercise growing up, discovering yoga was a big thing for…

1 February 2021

Charlotte Life

Quarantine Diaries | Part 3 | Hello 2021

Happy New Year gang! Yeah I know, it's February already. And this isn't my first post of 2021, but seeing as the last one was a long-overdue post about something I did last year, I don't fully count it. This is the first, official post about 2021 and the New…

27 January 2021

Charlotte Travel

Valèncian Region | Spain

After spending the first half of my week in València exploring the city itself, we'd exhausted the sights there. So, for my last three days, over the weekend, we embarked on a few short day trips to other towns and areas in the surrounding Valèncian region (both the city and…

28 December 2020

Charlotte Travel

València | Spain

So after my trip to Gran Canaria last month, I followed it up with a week spent visiting some other friends in València in mainland Spain. I had a full 7 days there (not counting travel days), so I got around a lot of places in that time - even…

14 November 2020

Charlotte Travel

Gran Canaria | Spain

First things first, if you haven't seen the first part of my time in Gran Canaria, in Las Palmas, and the explanation behind my trip, then you can check it out here. I was on the island for five days, so the last three were spent exploring…

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