The Usual Suspects

Once in a while a group comes along so brave, well-adjusted and mind-shatteringly beautiful that you automatically self destruct in their presence.  Until they turn up, you’ll just have to entertain yourselves by reading about us instead.

amanwithahat

amanwithahat is a man. With a hat.

Except when his head is bare. At that time he is without hat.

Hatless.

Originally, he was supposed to be going on a student exchange to the US. But then two things happened.

1. The student exchange department at his uni turned out to be an understaffed, inept mess, and

2. He started hanging out with a crazy-amazing girl who also happened to have a pretty awesome best friend with whom she planned to travel.

So he’s doing this instead.

So far he thinks it was a very good choice.

beeandpenguin

beeandpenguin would like you to call her bee. She has only just worked out how to add to this blog, and is feeling somewhat clever. Unfortunately, she is doing this after having attempted to add an entry elsewhere, and she’s not entirely sure where she published that one to… If it turns up uninvited in someone else’s blog, she apologises profusely. Treat it like a tennis ball; throw it back over the neighbour’s fence. Maybe it’ll find its way home.

Anyway.

As you probably figured from reading that first spiel, bee is long-winded. She loves words. She enjoys language. She is enamoured of linguistics. She sometimes repeats herself.

bee is the least travelled of the Suitcases mob, and is somewhat scpetical that places like the US and UK are real and actually accessible to her. Nevertheless, she intends to seek them out boldly and, if she falls off the edge of the world, at least she’ll know she tried.

bee is keen to see SO MANY THINGS on this trip, but highlights will most likely include a trip to Hollywood and Universal Studios (because she’s a cinephile), karaoke in Tokyo (because she studied Japanese for 12 years and wants an excuse to finally put aside the grammar studies and just immerse in the culture), driving through Italy (because pasta=happiness in a bowl), and, inevitably, staring for hours at a troupe of musicians - fiddler, piper, bodhran player - in a quiet little corner of Dublin (because Irish people are FASCINATING).

That’s all for now. bee is going to buzz off. Ahaha. (Yes, if you’re going to follow this blog, you’d better make peace with puns.)

aliceinbrisbaneland

alice never had a nickname, so she dressed up as Alice in Wonderland for a costume party and started insisting her name was alice.  It hasn’t yet caught on.  She’s a 21 year old wannabe writer with introversion issues, so many books she has to use some of them as door jams, and four rubber ducks of varying sizes and nationalities.  On this holiday she most wants to visit Kyoto for the culture, San Francisco for the Great Dickens Christmas Fair, and Cardiff so she can stalk the Doctor.  She makes no apologies for her rampant geekish tendancies.