Like much of the world, Serbians celebrate New Year's Day on 1st January, but they also have a second The latter is known as the Old New Year, or Orthodox New Year. and falls 13 days after the Gregorian calendar's NYE. 2024 was the year I decided I'd experience two New Technically, Belgrade became my 25th New Year's celebration spent in a new place. Although NYE part two ended up being fairly anticlimactic, it was still a good excuse to visit a new

It wasn't a new country, but it was a new city for a NYE celebration, so my streak lived on. 2021-2022 New Year's wasn't a crazy celebration, but Lanzarote was a relaxing and fabulous start to a new year! In 2024, I celebrated two New Year's Eves, two weeks apart. The second, Old New Year AKA Orthodox New Year was celebrated on 13th January, in Belgrade, Serbia. Cheers to a new year, everyone...And wishes for many more New Year's celebrations around the globe!

If you fancy a mid-day New Zealand sauvignon blanc, hit up Kiwi Bar. Situated under St.

The new decade, which we all excitedly entered with a renewed sense of clarity (cue the 20/20 references Only 183 more days to go until I was permitted to apply for a shiny new UK visa. New Zealand, which, to date, had contributed only 1,154 cases and 22 deaths to those aforementioned totals The bad news was that New Year's Eve would have to be celebrated at home and my 20-year streak of ringing in the new year in a new city/country would come to an end.

I recently returned from a short trip to Madrid, which spanned over New Year's Eve and New Year's Day It’s grilled until it has a golden crust and then served with wafers and a touch of molasses. 4) New People in Spain typically celebrate New Year’s with their families, at home, so the restaurant wasn’t midnight, Spaniards have a tradition of eating 12 grapes, one in each of the first 12 seconds of the New

for lunch and then visited Gold City, where I treated myself to something sparkly to ring (💍) in the new in Pine River Pond, New Hampshire, USA. After New Hampshire, I spent a week in Connecticut, catching up with friends and family. DECEMBER After the craziness in New York and Connecticut, it was off to Barbados, for a full week of My 24th consecutive New Year's Eve away was spent munching my way through in Mexico City, Mexico with

This underrated city manages to be simultaneously old and new, relaxed and exciting, metropolitan and Don't let the lack of dress code and unassuming industrial, distressed interior confuse you, this is new-age A fine restored interior sets the stage for purebred French dishes with a new twist.

Traveling is about more than just seeing new places; it’s about expanding your culinary canvas, tasting

New Year's Eve On 31st December 2023, my dear friend Jodi Moreno teamed up with Edo Kobayashi to cook It was a truly unique and filling way to ring in the new year!

For 22 consecutive years, I have celebrated New Year's Eve in a different city/country. It was a bit of a funny choice, since Muslim nations don't celebrate the Gregorian New Year, but it was New Year's Eve was rung in at both the Intercontinental and the Crowne Plaza hotels.

Society reimagined what travel looked like and realized new experiences. It continued on to Connecticut and then New York City. a four-day work week (a girl can dream), steps towards lifting the 100ml liquids restriction and a new 183 in 2019; 57 in 2020; 55 in 2021) Total Countries Visited: 16 (17 in 2019; 6 in 2020; 6 in 2021) New

return to globetrotting, but reluctant to book anything until the confusion and uncertainty around new FEBRUARY After 365 days of January, it was nice to move on to a new month! country) was downgraded to amber and seven new countries were made red. Britain, and the world, had a new sporting superstar in Emma Raducanu. From Fuerteventura, I ferried over to Lanzarote to ring in the New Year.

store for me, but I had an open mind, all my worldly belongings packed into five suitcases and a shiny new Tuesday (26th August), the red-eye flight departed on Wednesday (27th August) and I touched down in my new He wished me a sardonic 'good luck' with my new life in the United Kingdom, because I'd quite obviously Four days following my arrival into London, on 1st September 2014, I began my new job. I discovered that I was an Anglophile at heart and gained a new sense of self along the way.

The first stop on my whirlwind daytrip was the Marina Bay Sands (which is new since that last time I

the year in extreme relaxation mode after returning from Cape Verde tanned, refreshed and ready for a new We hired an adorable cottage in New Forest, communed with nature, ferried over to Isle of Wight, drank SEPTEMBER Much of this month was spent trying to acclimate to my new surroundings. In an effort to explore more of my new home country, I headed to Berlin for a weekend at the end of October Flown: 48 Airlines Flown: 14 Amount of Time Spent in the Air: 183 hours Total Countries Visited: 17 New

It was an interesting time to be in Kenya with the new president, William Ruto, being sworn in (a month December–March and June–October), some 1.3 million wildebeest, 200k zebra and 300k Thomson’s gazelle migrate to new For Tanzania, our visas were bought and processed on arrival ($100 USD had to be a new, crisp bill).

I kept a close eye on travel-related news and researched flight schedules extensively. I followed all the new onboard regulations, suggested guidelines and health protocols. COVID-19 is still relatively new, so accurate data on how it can spread between aircraft passengers is that getting on a plane always brings me...Which is less to do with flight itself and more about the new

Since I visited over New Year's Eve, I got to enjoy all the Christmas glory. For dinner, I pre-booked Town Steakhouse, since it was New Year's Eve and reservations were a necessity DAY THREE: After a lazy start New Year's Day, I headed to El Mercado for some Spanish tapas.

Barbados was just what the doctor ordered after a fun, but hectic, Thanksgiving week, spent between New

of the Bucegi Mountains, in the picturesque town of Sinaia, Peles Castle is a masterpiece of German new-Renaissance