Destination: United Kingdom

Surviving the UK on a Budget

Wed, 4 Jul 2012 | By nomads-survival-kit | Views [4450] | Comments [1]

In his latest guest post, Colm Hanratty of Hostelworld.com gives us tips on how to save money when travelling around the UK. Afternoon tea, premiership football, fish and chips and pints of ‘bitter’ – these are just some ... Read more >

Tags: budget, hostels, london, tours, travel, uk, united kingdom

We're home and planning the next trip

Tue, 3 Jul 2012 | By dianaandmalcolm | Views [7564]

Well, what an experience that 8 week sojourn in South Western America turned out to be.  We were stunned by the different scenery we saw each day [different to anything we have seen in other parts of the world], the intenseness of the heat in Death ... Read more >

Day 3 the epic trip to the French Alps

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 | By yohanssimpson | Views [359]

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Day 2 Paris and that.

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 | By yohanssimpson | Views [364]

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Day 1 the start of the trip York to London

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 | By yohanssimpson | Views [337]

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Photos: me and my friends and things

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 | By yohanssimpson | Photo Gallery

A Taste of England - Cream Tea and Black Pudding

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 | By connectlocally | Views [4974] | Comments [1]

Photo by WordRidden via Flickr The food in England is often overlooked on the world culinary scene.  Popular pub foods like fish and chips and Bangers and Mash are what usually come to mind when people think of English food. And while I agree ... Read more >

Tags: britain, connect local, england, food, travel, united kingdom

Update on our time and the orphanage and travel

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 | By jamie_candice | Views [845]

Firstly we apologies for no pictures on here or Facebook, the internet is as slow as a snail and to upload even one takes a long time. We know you’re all eager to see where we are staying and the children however we will need to designate a day to uploading ... Read more >

Photos: Scotland Road trip 2012

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 | By jamesandjulie | Photo Gallery

Scotland Road trip 2012

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 | By jamesandjulie | Views [607]

  We preparation for our Europe van trip, we took a week’s holiday to tour Scotland in our camper “Dusty”. The first night we drove from London to Yorkshire where we camped and made an early exit from, eager to get to Scotland. Our ... Read more >

The last minute packing (of course)

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 | By phill-dionne-gobey | Views [469]

It’s an early start to the day. Need to get the house back in order, bags packed and goodbyes to everyone who will pop round. And I will say that we haven’t even started to pack yet. I did however buy myself a new ‘handbag’, Jasper Conran ... Read more >

Portsoy Boat show and the rain

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 | By phill-dionne-gobey | Views [442]

Mum has organised us all to go to the Portsoy boat show as a last family day before we fly out on Monday. So as me and Gobey don’t have a car we get to climb in with mum and dad. Dad driving of course and it’s a long drive to Portsoy too.... Read more >

Family night at the Pub and Police ride home

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 | By phill-dionne-gobey | Views [426]

Friday night at the pub is always a good thing. And we don’t get nights to the pub with the whole family very often. And I will say that also included dad!!!!!!! So we had a few drinks at the Spiders and as the night got later we all decided to leave, ... Read more >

Photos: DJR

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 | By DJRaby | Photo Gallery

Summer in the UK

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 | By lesleyandjan | Views [506]

Note the picture!  One of the colder and wetter summers ever.  We have a few days here and Northern Ireland walking and cycling.  So far have explored Dartmoor on foot, Malvern hills and cycled the Gloucester to Sharpness canal. The days are incredibly ... Read more >