Wake up call: 9am Breakfast: 10am Activity: shopping I will be real with you, I’m a little bit of a shopping addict. I guess consumerism is kind of my thing. So how could I not visit the Champs Elysees? One of the worlds famous commercial streets. Champs Elysees means “Elysian Fields”, which indicates that someone [...]
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TRAVEL EDIT: PARIS DAY 1
Wake up call: 3am Flight time: 6:40am BHX - CDG Lately, I’ve found that my fatigue is pretty severe. My body aches and I struggle to get myself awake, up and about in the morning. But somehow when it’s a travel day I seem to miraculously have a little more energy. It’s almost as though [...]
TRAVEL EDIT: LET’S TALK BUSINESS
I’ve been wanting to write about this since my return from my last trip. However, I don’t want to seem as though I am ‘showing off’ because business travel is HARD work. It’s not all the glamour of jetting off to incredible places, sight seeing, a break away. It is longer days, adjusting to new [...]
TRAVEL EDIT: 1 DAY IN SAN FRANCISCO
My most recent trip over the Atlantic was certainly a whirlwind experience. It was both bitter and sweet as I got such a small amount of time to explore, but I am very aware that I am very lucky to have travelled in the first place. It has just given me even more need to [...]
TRAVEL EDIT: 24 HOURS IN NYC WITH IBD
Let me start with my only negative – the weather. August is far too hot, muggy, sweaty to be in NYC. I like to view the positives in everything, but I always want to give you my honest opinion. New York itself was a dream! It is an amazing place to be – words cannot [...]
TRAVEL EDIT: CROHNSWITHME IN THE USA
To follow on from my last instalment in the travel edit, I thought I would provide a little more context and write a little bit about the reason for my trip across the Atlantic. For work, I am a Customer Success Manager, and in a nutshell this is an account manager role. I look after [...]
CROHNSWITHME: THE STORY
Welcome, I'm Sophie, outside of my normal 9-5 I'm a full-time Crohn's fighter, part-time explorer (I'm always trying to fit in a trip whenever I can) and of course the creator of CrohnsWithMe. At age 11, I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease and having gone through a few bad flare ups, changes in diet and [...]
TRAVEL EDIT: DISNEYLAND PARIS DAY 2
Day 2. Wake up call: 7:45am. Breakfast: 8:30am. Weary eyed, we slowly rolled out of bed and ready for our second day in Disneyland. We had crammed so much stuff into Day 1, with the excitement of travelling and the heat in Paris, I woke up feeling as though I had been ‘hit by a [...]