Author: Alexis Slavicek

I’m coming for my cat!!! We woke up at the crack of dawn again to catch our flight to London, so we could connect straight to Pittsburgh.  That was easy peasy.  My luggage got through fine.  The ride was nice.  BUT we arrived at Heathrow and our flight starts to get delayed, and continues to […]

I have been waiting for this day all week.  It was the free day!  I decided what my body truly needed was rest, so I let myself sleep in for a little bit (only until 11).  Threw a cute outfit on and put some shades on.  I stopped for some toast down at the hotel […]

We started early once again. This is all new to me because I think I have said it before but I normally don’t wake up until 11 at the earliest.  We were going to talk to Ollie Davis from the Fringe Society, who host the Fringe Fine Arts Festival, which is the largest street festival in […]

We woke up nice and early for our flight to Edinburgh.  We got the nicest bus we ever got for our 10-minute drive to the airport.  What was about to happen to me in this airport I was not ready for though. I was traumatized this morning. I was bringing a carry-on bag, and I […]

We were back to being up and at it in the morning, and we met at 9:15 a.m. in business casual for an hour-long ride to Manchester to get to Salford University and BBC.  When we arrived, the space was so cool.  I didn’t realize they were in the same little complex of businesses.  They […]

Today had a really good start.  I got to sleep in.  I still ended up getting up at like 10:30, so I could go to brunch with my friends. We met at a brunch place called The Hub that was pretty close to our hotel.  Everyone had to meet back at the hotel lobby to go […]

The next day we had a walking Shakespeare Tour around the city where we, saw all the places Shakespeare lived his life, and the legacy he left behind.  We even stopped at the graveyard he and his family are buried at. I am going to be honest though; the more I hear about him the less […]

I woke up, and was so sad to leave London.  It is one of my new favorite places.  We had to wear our matching blue shirts, so I didn’t have to pick out an outfit. We also looked like we were on a kindergarten field trip, but it was funny.   We hopped on the bus at […]

The days are getting harder and harder to get up for.  We met up in the morning for breakfast, but the line was so long I just waited until lunch to eat.  A lot of the breakfast places by the hotel just do pastries in the morning I noticed, and I didn’t love that.  I […]

Today was early.  We had to meet up by 8:45 this morning.  It wasn’t only an early day, but also a long day because we had two media visits in one day.  It was all fine and dandy though, but it poured all day long (and would pour harder when it was time to walk […]