This is the first 500 words of my travel writing piece -- there will be 1500 in total. My class has put it through a few edits now, but I can still recognise my work in it somewhere.

I found myself writing in a different style for this class -- definitely closer to all the Serious Travel Writers that I've been reading since I started this course.
It's more formal and less funny than the rest of my posts on this website, and there are also fewer spelling mistakes.

Anyway, on the off-chance that the handy-dandy comments fields are actually working, let me know what you think of the piece!