I expected Tokyo to feel more foreign. It doesn't. In some ways, London felt more alien to me, as cities go, but Tokyo feels like any other modern city. It probably helps that it isn't too hard to find someone that speaks English anywhere I go. I mean, the buildings are slightly shorter and I... Continue Reading →

We left our last full day in London kind of open-ended, in case unforeseen things (like the weather, or, say, a museum workers’ strike) forced us to skip something we really wanted to see. We did wind up having to miss the British Museum earlier this week due to a workers’ strike, so we rescheduled... Continue Reading →

Early this morning, we piled in a van (driven by someone else, fortunately) and headed to Stonehenge. We’d signed up for this tour (led by an Irish dude with ear gauges named Tony) that would take us to three of the farther-flung British must-see attractions: Stonehenge, Bath, and Windsor Castle. Now, I don’t know what... Continue Reading →

The best way to see the Tower of London, it turns out, is before it opens. Somehow, we stumbled across a tour package that let us in the Tower just barely before it was open to the public. We met our tour guide at the tower about 45 minutes before it opened, and were ushered... Continue Reading →

The final day of Star Wars Celebration Europe: Don’t judge, but I didn’t go to the Bad Batch Panel. I’m switching hotels tonight and I needed time to repack my suitcase; Bad Batch isn’t one of my faves, so I didn’t pressure myself to get done in time. The first panel I attended was hosted... Continue Reading →

So, here’s Day 3: I couldn’t attend the big panel this morning. As much as I was interested to hear some insight about the villains of the sequel trilogy, I had appointments to keep. By overwhelming internet consensus, I donned my X-Wing sweater and lightsaber skirt, and headed out to said appointments. Ewan MacGregor is... Continue Reading →

Star Wars Celebration might be the only time in my life that I am put together enough to plan my outfit ahead. And, as it turns out, I set my alarm wrong last night, so when a random app notification woke me up at 9:15 (way, way later than I intended), I already had my... Continue Reading →

A lot of people have asked me what exactly we do at Star Wars Celebration, so here’s a spreadsheet of all of (well, most of) the things that were happening today: Today was day one, and it always proves to be action-packed and an emotional roller coaster, so I put on my newest floofy Star... Continue Reading →

Today was my longest day ever. After about eight hours of flights, two hours of lugging 65 pounds of luggage across three different train lines, and a single serving of chia porridge to tide me over that whole time (due to a clerical error, the in-flight sandwich I pre-ordered never got to me ) I... Continue Reading →