Well, the time had come for my last hotel breakfast. Thankfully, it was delicious. We checked out of the hotel, boarded the bus, and went into the airport. After a draining security check-in and flight from Edinburgh to London, we began our wait in Heathrow. We waited. And waited. And. Waited. We began our wait […]
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Day 12: Time to Spare
Today was a day I was both dreading and looking forward to. Unfortunately, it was the last day of the trip. But we also had the whole day to ourselves until dinner. I decided to take the day to be on my own. I’m a relatively introverted person and sometimes I need to have time […]
Day 11: On the Fringe
Another day, another media visit. After a quick breakfast at the hotel, we took a walk over to visit the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. This visit was very interesting for me for many reasons. Oliver Davis, the head of marketing and development, talked to us about the origins of the festival, what it means to […]
Day 10: Should Have Taken the Bus
Throughout the trip so far, we have had to misfortune to ride on some buses that could barely carry all of our passengers, let alone our luggage. We assumed it would be the same scenario on our short ride from our hotel in Manchester to the airport. However, when we dragged ourselves and our belongings […]
Day 9: On the Road Again
Unfortunately, the time came to pack up and leave Liverpool. I loved my time spent in this city but the trip must go on and Manchester was waiting for us. After some hotel breakfast we got back onto the bus and made our way to Media City in Manchester. First, we talked to Annabelle from […]
Day 8: Letting it Be
Since we had the morning free to do what we pleased, I decided that it would be a good idea to sleep in a little bit more than I had been on the trip so far, especially after my long night out. After finally rousing myself I went with some friends to a cafe called […]
Day 7: Wherefore Art Thou, Shakespeare
Fortunately we were only in that maze of a hotel for one night. We checked out of the hotel in the morning and went on a tour of Shakespeare’s birthplace near our hotel. We saw things like the school he attended when he was younger, the church he was buried in, and of course the […]
Day 6: We’ll Never Be Royals
Unfortunately we had to leave London this morning. Although I was sad to go, I was excited to see more of the United Kingdom and also hopeful that the next place we visited had less sirens. I ate some hotel breakfast and got on the bus to Windsor. Today was the day to visit the […]
Day 5: It’s Called Fashion, Look it Up
Today was the day that I was looking forward to the most as far as media visits go. We visited Hearst UK, which is a media publishing parent company that owns many very popular and well-circulated magazines in the UK such as Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, and Elle (which was the one I was the most […]
Day 4: Still Not Sure What PR Is
Another day, another media visit. Today we had two visits with two different PR agencies, Battenhall and Burston, Cohn, and Wolfe. First we walked to Battenhall. It was raining and the walk there was slightly disheartening, but my mood quickly improved once we got there. First of all, the office space was decorated in a […]