The Broke Student’s Guide To Travel
This Airbnb Listing, Melbourne CBD Sign up at Airbnb.com/Jemma for $50 off your first trip! You always know it’s going to be a good trip when you check into your airbnb and gasp. Which was exactly what happened on day one of Melbourne – when our host opened the door and we were greeted byContinue reading #2119 | Jemma for Airbnb: Apartment Goals in Melbourne facilitating Life Goals in Overall
Melbourne, Australia. All photos taken with the Samsung Note8PS. I’ve created a TripsAdvisor Trips Itinerary called Melbourne Fatties (lol!) with all my favorite food/drink recommendations, which you can view here. Go in hungry! x I dont know if you guys can tell, but I’m making a real effort here to document all the amazing mealsContinue reading #2115 | Best meal in Melbourne: Ombra Salumi Bar
Melbourne, Australia All pictures taken and edited on the Samsung Note8It seems naive, premature even, to declare a place the best anything while on a trip because pragmatics dictate that a traveller cannot possibly try every single place in a new place and be able to definitively declare one the best. But for Self Preservation,Continue reading #2114| Self Preservation, Melbourne, is my new favourite wine and cheese bar
In our Airbnb, Melbourne I realised that I am an absolute emotional wreck, like, W-R-E-C-K. I actually dont like watching movies on planes (re: Workaholic’s guide to taking a plane), and so I was doing some client work on my laptop when Xiaoqi started watching my favorite movie of all time, Our Times, on herContinue reading #2113| on the airplane back from Melbourne
Bodega Underground, Melbourne CBD All photos taken on the Samsung Note 8 and edited in VSCOWe came for the dollar tacos and stayed for the quesadillas. A quick scan of Time Out when we landed in Melbourne revealed a month-long dollar taco promotion at Bodega Underground, a Mexican late night joint literally around the cornerContinue reading #2112 | Midnight Mexican in Melbourne
Hardware Societe Cafe, Melbourne All pictures taken on the Nikon D750 with a 35f1.8mm lensDay three of melbourne and I am convinced there are no bad brunches in Melbourne. Such a thing cannot exist – or if it does, I suppose it it ferreted away like a secret, away from the critical eye of thisContinue reading #2111 | Mocha Mondays: No Bad Brunches – Hardware Societe Cafe Melbourne
San Francisco, CaliforniaI make it a point to visit at least one bookstore in each new city I go to, but with City Lights Bookstore, it was more of a pilgrimage. I don’t even know how to describe City Lights in a way that would remotely do it justice, but lets start with this:Continue reading #2109 | I’m with you in Rockland – City Lights Bookstore San Francisco
Heya guys, Just a log of the different things I snacked on in Tokyo. Seriously that place is just full of wonder! You can also read my post on weird things I consumed in Tokyo’s vending machine/conveneince stores here. Remember – the trick to trying a lot of different things is to SHARE EVERYTHING! OtherwiseContinue reading #2096 | Tales from Tokyo: Snack city
Hey guys, So this is something that’s been in the works for ages now, and something that’s very close to my heart. A year ago, after I was named as the Changi Airport social media ambassador, I pitched a passion project to Changi Airport Group that revolved around my two big loves – reading andContinue reading #2092 | #JemmaRecommends live in Changi Airport Times Bookstores
To be precise, Tokyo Convenience stores AND vending machines. But the title was getting too long. Tokyo is so well known for its convenience stores, which are amazing, but it’s my fourth trip to Japan this time round and I still haven’t tried most of the offerings instore because I don’t understand them. So IContinue reading #2091 | Tales from Tokyo – All the weird things I consumed in Tokyo Convenience Stores