Destination: United Kingdom

ups and downs (rose)

Thu, 3 Sep 2009 | By huw-and-rose | Views [591]

You honestly couldn’t make this stuff up. Since we left Brighton over a month ago, aside from numerous enjoyable walks and entertaining meals with our families all over the country and dancing in fields at the Green ... Read more >

Counting Down!

Wed, 2 Sep 2009 | By rai | Views [305]

The flights are booked and I'm counting down to the trip of my life (so far)!  I'll do my best to keep this updated while I'm away so anyone who's interested can follow my progress.  First off, here's the outline of where I'm going - I'll fill in the ... Read more >

Missing you all!

Wed, 2 Sep 2009 | By alyx | Views [872] | Comments [6]

(Picture - Two boys in mine and Meena's class at the school, Picas and Denis) Hi everyone, So on Saturday a few of us got up early to catch the public bus to Kathmandu - one of the volunteers host sister Sabina came with us to help ... Read more >

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Wed, 2 Sep 2009 | By coralhorton | Views [279] | Comments [1]

There wont be a daily post at present. I just wanted to see if you all could log on and see the posts. As I think I said I leave here the 11th September so will write more after that day. Thanks for comments and feedback so far! I think this will ... Read more >

Back in London

Wed, 2 Sep 2009 | By jensen12 | Views [376] | Comments [1]

After a great 4 days catching up with the family in holland Namely Marty and Reit and Theo we headed back to London and are now at Earls court YHA We have caught up with our washing and are now awaiting the flight to Egypt on the 11th of September.... Read more >

Less than 2 weeks to go.

Tue, 1 Sep 2009 | By coralhorton | Views [285] | Comments [2]

Well there still seems a lot to do. I am off today to buy a space blanket, and some food supplies. I dont know how I shall get everything into my bag! I am getting a little scared now..Can I do this trek!? I havent been training much apart from Snowdon ... Read more >

Tags: getting ready.

London

Tue, 1 Sep 2009 | By jadepeters | Views [565]

My last night in Berlin was a bit of a nightmare. After my lovely pork roast dinner at the Lowenbrau I ended up with food poisoning and was up all night vomiting. But then had to leave the hostel at 4.30am to catch the train to the airport for our flight ... Read more >

Nott too bad...

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 | By nadscol | Views [826]

(Feb 09) So, Nottingham- first week, new job, usual jitters, usual cursing the fact that I miss my last job. Same thing happened when I started at Cheltenham and Winchester. But still- it was always going to be a grass is greener type situation. ... Read more >

Tags: work

Jersey Girl

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 | By nadscol | Views [759]

(Jan 09) Perhaps a trip to Jersey to visit Rocky was the thing I needed to put me back in the land of the living both emotionally and physically. After a few weeks sitting in the flat in London barely able to venture down the block to even get groceries ... Read more >

Tags: uk

To the point

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 | By nadscol | Views [646]

(Jan 09) Anyone who knows me well will probably know what happened in early January and hence why I have taken so long to write about. Really it is the one reason, not my usual laziness which has made me get so far behind on my blog. To put it simply ... Read more >

Tags: sad

People who should really not be allowed on long-distance buses

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 | By hotnoodle | Views [984]

1) People who sit in an aisle seat and then pretend to be asleep so that they won't have to move over and share. (That's me.) 2) People who think that 8 hours on a bus is a really good time to make all their social calls and talk for the whole time. ... Read more >

Vietnam to Laos to Bangkok to Koh Phangan all in 10 days!

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 | By laura_street | Views [1674] | Comments [4]

I decided to stay an extra day in Hanoi to get myself sorted and book a bus for the next part of my trip. Luckily Sally, one of the Australian girls on my trip was staying too so we were able to share a room and spend the following couple of days together.... Read more >

Lunch in Luxemboug

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 | By angelas_away | Views [377]

For no other reason than to stop in a country neither of us had been to, we decided to drive through Luxembourg and stop for lunch before continuing to Switzerland. There was nothing particularly amazing about Luxembourg city, but it did provide an ... Read more >

First stop: Bruges, Belgium

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 | By angelas_away | Views [343]

After an uneventful ferry crossing from Dover to Dunkirk, we decided to drive through Belgium rather than France. In less than a couple of hours we arrived in Bruges, inspired by watching the film "In Bruges" recently (the film wasn`t much ... Read more >

The start of another journey

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 | By angelas_away | Views [394]

To continue from the last entry in my journal, the story goes something like this: Angela decides to leave the south of England after her travels, moves back to the Midlands into a tiny Leicestershire village, joins a capoeira club in Leicester and ... Read more >