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[gifted] | day trip to bristol w/ national express

Amara Amaryah

Dec 21, 2019
4 min

[gifted] | day trip to bristol w/ national express

Amara Amaryah | travel + books + poetry, always poetry. a platform for story-telling, visuals, positive self-talk and empowerment. |day trip to bristol with national express. hello loves. how is your december going? it’s almost the season to snuggle down, stay warm and stay inside. almost. before hibernation begins, i want to talk about a very welcomed day trip that i recently enjoyed in the UK. we finally touched down in the coolest city of the south – bristol. admittedly br

travel |what to do in Jamaica ocho rios

Amara Amaryah

Dec 16, 2019
9 min

travel |what to do in Jamaica ocho rios

Amara Amaryah | travel + books + poetry, always poetry. a platform for story-telling, visuals, positive self-talk and empowerment. |what to do in jamaica ocho rios. hello loves. this time last month i was living my truest life in the caribbean. i’m writing this post under my double duvet and accompanied by my hot water bottle but my heart is still warm. if nothing else. travelling to jamaica has been a huge highlight of 2019. not only was everywhere scenic but it felt like th

travel photo diary| postcards from Jamaica.

Amara Amaryah

Dec 4, 2019
2 min

travel photo diary| postcards from Jamaica.

Amara Amaryah | travel + books + poetry, always poetry. a platform for story-telling, visuals, positive self-talk and empowerment. | Jamaica travel photo diary. hello loves. fourth trip of twenty nineteen was a very special one. a dreamy, special trip for a storyteller. i say special, i mean detrimental to my stepping wholly into myself. this trip was a long time coming. if you follow me on instagram you’d know that this was my first journey to my motherland. the land of wood

travel | what I ate in Rome/ vegan in Rome!

Amara Amaryah

Oct 13, 2019
5 min

travel | what I ate in Rome/ vegan in Rome!

Amara Amaryah | travel + books + poetry, always poetry. a platform for story-telling, visuals, positive self-talk and empowerment. | what I ate in Rome – vegan in Rome! hello loves. showing up today to share the dirty details of my absolute favourite thing – food! italian food to be specific. my first ever visit to italy proved to be everything i thought it would be food wise. i heard amazing things about pasta and pizza and wine… so i entered the country with high high expec

travel diary | my favourite stories + encounters in Rome

Amara Amaryah

Sep 15, 2019
6 min

travel diary | my favourite stories + encounters in Rome

Amara Amaryah | travel + books + poetry, always poetry. a platform for story-telling, visuals, positive self-talk and empowerment | Rome travel diary hello loves the blog hiatus is over. to tell the truth it is probably because of virgo season why i am back to high productivity. now that the summer of alter-ego behaviour and poetry has fizzled out, i’m back to blogging. first thing I want to share is my Rome travel diary and adventures from earlier this spring. a travel diary

poetry| 1000 poems in a year + other poetry blessings

Amara Amaryah

Apr 17, 2019
4 min

poetry| 1000 poems in a year + other poetry blessings

Amara Amaryah | travel + books + poetry, always poetry. a platform for story-telling, visuals, positive self-talk and empowerment | new poems + poetry updates hello loves i hope this week is treating you well so far. it feels good and right to be back with a poetry update. your favourite poetry girl has been busy doing poet so i wanted to share a bit of what life looks like in the world of amara. better, april is national poetry month which is good enough persuasion for poetr

travel | let go of your travel fears

Amara Amaryah

Apr 7, 2019
5 min

travel | let go of your travel fears

Amara Amaryah | travel + books + poetry, always poetry. a platform for story-telling, visuals, positive self-talk and empowerment | let go of your travel fears- just go! hello loves today i’m debunking and deleting and stepping on all of our travel fears. in my last post i wrote about english tourism week and local travel. today i am addressing some of the anxieties or precautions that stop (some of) us from booking the trips. what is stopping you from travelling local? trave

english tourism week | bigging up birmingham

Amara Amaryah

Apr 5, 2019
4 min

english tourism week | bigging up birmingham

Amara Amaryah | travel + books + poetry, always poetry. a platform for story-telling, visuals, positive self-talk and empowerment | english tourism week, bigging up birmingham. hello loves this week is a good week to big up birmingham. it’s english tourism week and i’m witing about my favourite parts of my city. only recently have i started calling birmingham ‘mine’. and only recenty have i started to appreciate and prioritise local travel. an instagram friend told me she was

book review | ‘The Power’ by Naomi Alderman

Amara Amaryah

Mar 12, 2019
5 min

book review | ‘The Power’ by Naomi Alderman

Amara Amaryah | travel + books + poetry, always poetry. a platform for story-telling, visuals, positive self-talk and empowerment | ‘the power’ book review. hello loves today i’m finally sharing my thoughts on my recent read, the power by naomi alderman. surprisingly this wasn’t a book i chose for myself, i hadn’t even heard the hype around it either. mum bought this one for me. my mum has gotten into the habit of gifting me books that i can obsess over. it started with Haruk

travel diaries | 48 hours in Budapest

Amara Amaryah

Feb 9, 2019
6 min

travel diaries | 48 hours in Budapest

Amara Amaryah | travel + books + poetry, always poetry. a platform for story-telling, visuals, positive self-talk and empowerment.| 48 hours in Budapest. hello loves i’m back with my travel diaries and i couldn’t be happier. today i am sharing my wanderings from my 48 hours in budapest. solo travelling to budapest allowed me full autonomy over what i wanted to do. ofcourse, 48 hours is not a very long time to get a full feel of a city. and i don’t use this post to pretend tha

travel | solo travel tips + lessons

Amara Amaryah

Jan 22, 2019
6 min

travel | solo travel tips + lessons

Amara Amaryah | travel + books + poetry, always poetry. a platform for story-telling, visuals, positive self-talk and empowerment | solo travel tips + lessons. hello loves i hope everyone has had a good week. if you follow me on instagram you’ll know that it’s been a week since my solo travels to budapest. before i drop my budapest travel diaries, i thought it would be a good idea to write about my solo travel experience. so. officially budapest was my first solo trip. the fi

travel | my first travel bucket list

Amara Amaryah

Jan 9, 2019
3 min

travel | my first travel bucket list

Amara Amaryah | travel + books + poetry, always poetry. a platform for story-telling, visuals, positive self-talk and empowerment. UK blogger | my travel bucket list. hello loves i’m back into the full swing of work and it’s not coincidental that i’ve started thinking about future travel getaways. i’m grateful for work (and income wow) but it’s something about january in the UK… in this post, i’m sharing my first ever travel bucketlist. this is a list of the countries and cit

travel | what travel taught me in 2018

Amara Amaryah

Dec 30, 2018
5 min

travel | what travel taught me in 2018

hello loves happy holidays. i hope it has been a restful season. i’m making the most of the time off and the cosy days in by reflecting on what the year has taught me through travel. each trip has taught me a few things about myself, the people i travel with and the world. in this post i want to share what travelling has taught me this year. this year i didn’t travel as much as i would like. but i did see three very different parts of the world. i visited: paris in february.

Travel | Maroc Photography Journal prt. 1

Amara Amaryah

Apr 29, 2018
1 min

Travel | Maroc Photography Journal prt. 1

hello loves. Maroc: Rabat/ Marrakech. March 2018. travel archives | the photographer in me silenced the writer. no words. just enjoy and take in. morroco travel journal| PC: Fatima Halidou Rabat | a favourite. Ms Halidou. Amara Amaryah. #travelblogger #morocco #marrakech #photography #traveldiary #travel

a poetry photo diary - innermost of the inner city

Amara Amaryah

Jul 18, 2016
1 min

a poetry photo diary - innermost of the inner city

take no shame in exploring the unexplored, sometimes. there is much beauty to be found in what you can find in the hidden things. -Amara Amaryah Interrupting// birmingham. Mind wanderer// birmingham. Reverie// birmingham. Post brexit feels// birmingham. Love when the sun does this// birmingham. Piece of peace// birmingham. #city #uk #birmingham #traveluk #vsco #rt #photography #streetphotography #travel #poetry #poems #europe

Afropunk Paris Prt.1

Amara Amaryah

Jun 15, 2016
1 min

Afropunk Paris Prt.1

My first visit to Paris coincided with my first Afropunk experience. As in, my first time being fully surrounded by people who were willing to embrace their blackness loudly coincided with my first time in the delicate Parisian streets. Afropunk Paris less than subtly persuaded that we should dismiss the notion of an ‘alternative’ blackness, a version of blackness which is different. Afropunk seems to remind us that this is just who we are, how we are, when given a space to o

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