If you have a blog on Vox, and would like to move all of your posts to your current WordPress blog, you can read about how to do that here. One of the fun aspects of Vox was the neighbourhood ability. You could add people to your neighbourhood, and you would see their posts easily, almost like in an RSS reader, only it was right there in Vox.

I also enjoyed the Question of the Day feature they had. So if you were stumped on what to write, you could take a moment to answer the QotD, and you could easily search for what other’s had answered as well.

So since Vox is closing down, I’ve moved all of my older posts from Vox to WordPress. And if you were subscribed to my blog, and got a million e-mails about my blog being updated, I am sorry for spamming you!

I am going through my older Vox posts and removing some and cleaning them up a little since not all of the media were easily brought over. There’s probably going to a lot of broken links as well on my Vox posts, but I am going through that as well!

Where and how did you start blogging?

One of my favourite places ended up being Shibuya, which is a trendy location where all the “cool kids hang”.

You also have the famous intersection in Shibuya, where a LOT of people cross when it’s green. And when crossing here you have to be set on your course, otherwise you’ll get trampled over

Video uploaded by: NYPTravel

In Shibuya you have a big shopping department called Shibuya 109, or for short “maru kyuu”, where you can shop to you drop! When we were in Tokyo there was a MASSIVE insane 5 day bargain sale, where prices were down 30-70%! We of course went, and found some neat stuff. I tried my best to be smart, and not spend too much money there since the trip in itself was going to be expensive, but the girls that I travelled with dropped a lot of cash there

Shibuya 109 is aimed for the ladies, but just down the street there’s another shopping department, just for men. I can’t remember the name of it (we never went there… lol), but it’s something with 10.. 102?

So if you’re ever in Shibuya, be sure to check those out!

We usually stopped by Shibuya at nighttime to grab a cup of coffee and just watch people walking by. Lot of awesome fashion walking past you.

Some more photos from Shibuya:

Do you like people-watching?

I once went to England with a friend of mine, and the trip itself was awesome. However, when we were going home and to the airport, it all went to hell. We had miscalculated the time it would take to get us to the airport, and the hotel concierge said we needed to go to this-and-this place to take a bus to the airport. All right, no problem — we thought.  On the bus there was a digital clock, and at first we thought, this can’t be right. And then we realized we were never going to make that plane home

When we arrived at the airport, we talked to the airline, and we thought we would have to pay for a new ticket and all, since we’d arrived late. But to our surprise, we only had to pay half! Since we were late, they could give our seats to someone else, so we only paid half of what we paid for the original tickets. BUT! There were no available seats for the remainder of the day to Oslo, meaning, we had to spend another night in England. Luckily, we had master cards and available credit on it That was one of those times when having a master card is a life saver!

We didn’t want to travel all the way into London again, so we opted for an hotel that was close to the airport. We went by the hotel counter at the airport and asked for a cheap hotel nearby. The guy behind the counter gave us two options; Hilton hotel 5 minutes away from the hotel, or an old mansion about 30 minutes away. And he also said that the mansion was haunted! The price was the same for the both of them, even though one was Hilton and the other an unknown mansion turned into a hotel. We of course, opted for the haunted mansion, duh! We even got taxi vouchers included, and a reserved taxi that would come pick us up the next day!

It was a really neat place to stay, as there were all these old furnitures, huge chandeliers (like the one in the photo above), lounges and just a lot of cool paintings on the walls to look at. As for it being haunted, who knows. They said that the original owner of the mansion back in it’s glory days walked the halls there, but we didn’t notice anything. I did however wake up once during the night by a loud weird sound, but once I came to my senses I realised it was just the toilet in the room above us flushing

The place is called Down Hall (I luckily snapped a shot with the name of the country house in it), and according to the website, it dates back to 1322!

Have you ever stayed in a haunted place?

Photo by Baloulumix @ Flickr

I am off to Paris! Well, in October that is!

It was all a spur of the moment, but I decided I would treat my best friend to a trip to Paris with me since she deserves it, and it’ll be fun to be just the two of us, just like good ol’ times, only in Paris!

So I purchased the plane tickets yesterday, and we leave Saturday October 23rd, and return Monday 25th! I haven’t reserved hotel yet, but I thought I would look around a bit more before making a reservation. It’s much easier finding a better hotel than a plane ticket, which is why I bought the plane tickets last night!

It’ll be so much fun! I can’t wait!

Have you ever taken a spur of the moment trip, outside the country you reside in?

So it’s time to find those warmer clothes, and start always carrying an umbrella in my purse!

When fall comes I like to find a new book I can read if it’s rainy outside, and my scarves for those chilly days. And stock up on tea and cocoa powder!

Do you do anything in particular to prepare for the fall season?