Destination: United Kingdom

Goodbye London...Hello Europe!

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 | By jmmal2 | Views [537] | Comments [2]

Well, I am just about to go out drinking cocktails in Camden. My last night in London. I cant believe that this is finally happening! I have been dreaming about this moment for 6 months! Our last two weeks in London have been very eventful to say the ... Read more >

Hue

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 | By chloe_in_asia | Views [512] | Comments [4]

A serious shock to the system this morning - our bus actually arrived on time. Still don't believe it as normally you have to add at least 2 hours onto any estimated time of arrival. We didn't quite know what to do with ourselves when we were standing ... Read more >

The afternoon of London Day 2.. Just gets bigger.

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 | By dan_and_anna | Views [336]

After the rain stopped we were off on foot again and headed towards the beautiful Lancaster square only to be amazed at the shear beauty of Trafalgar square. From here we walked down Whitehall ... Read more >

London Day 2...

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 | By dan_and_anna | Views [328]

Today the time difference hit hard as I was wide awake at a marvelous 4.30 am.. I m pretty sure that at this time Dan was wishing we had separate rooms as I was pottering around our closet of a room (thinking I was ... Read more >

Canterbury & Boughton: July 22 & 23

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 | By jolinklater | Views [374]

July 22 YAY! The Cathedral was open, brilliant! Was absolutely outrageous! was one of the massivest churches i have ever seen! took about 2 hours to walk through and that wasn't even stopping to look at everything! Was really beautiful and if anybody ... Read more >

Gallery: Canterbury Cathedral

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 | By jolinklater | Photo Gallery

My Son

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 | By chloe_in_asia | Views [400] | Comments [3]

Today I went on a tour to My Son where there are ruins from the Cham era - about the 13th century. It was a beautiful setting, right in the middle of the mountains. Then took a boat trip back to Hoi An which was just wonderful. Everything here is poscard-... Read more >

London here we are

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 | By dan_and_anna | Views [380]

And so at 11pm we boarded our long flight (transiting through Frankfurt) to the UK. We were depressed to find that our seats on our Luftansia flight didn't have a personalised tv console and to make things worse, I think our ticket ... Read more >

Arrival and first days

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 | By phil_and_alex | Views [904] | Comments [6]

Arrived nice and early (6.30am) on Tues morn to - you guessed it - shitty, cold, rainy english weather!! this is meant to be SUMMER!! but nevermind, Urszula picked us up from the airport and took us to beautiful Blenheim Palace, which has 20acres of ... Read more >

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Gallery: Wales

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 | By david_vanessa | Photo Gallery

Gallery: London & our new home

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 | By jolinklater | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Canterbury & areas

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 | By jolinklater | Photo Gallery

London 21 July

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 | By jolinklater | Views [595]

21 July We got up relatively early and jumped on the tube to take us from Clapham South (Meg's house) to Trafalgar Square where our walking tour for the Changing of the Guards would start from.  We were slightly late, but caught up with the tour at ... Read more >

Hoi An

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 | By chloe_in_asia | Views [384] | Comments [2]

This morning I went to a tailors and blew $70 on dresses :P It was possibly the best shopping experience of my life. The shop was run by two sisters who both spoke really good english. We sat down and chatted for ages then went through tons of magazines ... Read more >

Trekking, Phuket and Phi Phi

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 | By laura_street | Views [708] | Comments [4]

We were picked up from our hostel just after 9am on Thursday to meet out trekking group. There was 6 of us all together - everyone seemed really nice. We had an hours drive in a rather cramped and very warm minibus to where we were going to be doing ... Read more >