Destination: United Kingdom

Gallery: Nearly time to fly

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 | By ellie | Photo Gallery

Getting ready for the off

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 | By ellie | Views [647] | Comments [8]

I'm nearly there. It has been a very strange and hard time lately but this trip is going to help me to put things into perspective (i hope).  The packing and list making is almost complete, I've just got a few days left to say some good byes before ... Read more >

Working life part 2

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 | By pchande | Views [1254] | Comments [6]

So as i was saying apart from my charity work, I have been lucky enough to go to VIP parties with my house mates as a few of the boys work for a music magazine. Yday we went for a club launch where we had our VIP area and free drinks all night. Crowd ... Read more >

Working life

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 | By pchande | Views [634] | Comments [1]

Hello everyone, im glad to see that most of you have been reading my journal so its not a complete waste of time! So, its nearly a week here and i can say that i have really settled into bangalore and the way things work here. My work started this ... Read more >

Bangkok and Kanchanaburi

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 | By manjinder_nagra | Views [597] | Comments [2]

Despite my reservations about Bangkok I have to say its quite an amazing City. It has everything really - Wats (temples), a palace, ambience, skytowers, markets, a river, sky trains, an elephant walking down the high street, pld men with young thai girls, ... Read more >

Dover-Carlisle-Scotland

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 | By dianne_peter | Views [1109] | Comments [5]

Took the ferry from Callais to Dover not a bad ferry ride. Stayed overnight in a B/B then caught the train to Carlisle my birth town.We have changed our route a bit as we wanted to catch up with my neice Fay before she returned to Australia.We will go ... Read more >

Pitstop

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 | By 2008-2009 | Views [684] | Comments [1]

We spent 24 hours in Madrid shopping, eating tapas, drinking red wine and walking around the city parks before heading to the UK for a pitstop, to recharge the batteries before our next busy South America leg. Matt flew to Scotland and I to England.  ... Read more >

Bordeaux

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 | By dianne_peter | Views [540]

On the train from Madrid we went through the Pyrenees where the snow was really coming down and outside was really deep in snow...very pretty from the comfort of a warm carriage. Bordeaux is beautiful the promande runs along side the River Garonne for ... Read more >

Madrid Salamanca

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 | By dianne_peter | Views [503]

Arrived in Salamanca Madrid where we were booked into the Salamanca Hostel, which obviously was one of the huge old beautiful apparments with the huge lobby and old style gated lift. Now it has four ensuite hostel rooms on each floor. Amazing shower ... Read more >

Sat 17th - 21st Jan 09

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 | By horwood | Views [567] | Comments [3]

Hi Everyone Sorry we haven't been in touch lately, we've been very busy!!  Sunday 18th went on a tour of Jo'burg city with our guide Jan.  He took us to the Calton Centre for panoramic views of the city, 50 stories high! amongst other things, we went ... Read more >

Just a note and some PHOTOS

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 | By dianne_peter | Views [467]

    Hi folks sorry nothing updated for the moment,I will try and update in the next few days.We are in Scotland and it is snowing!! Thanks to brother David you have some photos to look at. more to follow

Build Up

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 | By yve | Views [304]

I"m so excited! Only 8 days to go before I set out to Canada and I'm so thrilled. I'd be even more thrilled if I had a suitcase, but hey 8 days is more than enough time to sought that out. In the meanwhile I'm just getting all my stuff piled ... Read more >

Hello!!

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 | By pchande | Views [958] | Comments [8]

hi im in bangalore now and its my second day now- already feels like i have been here a week! sorry for the small letters- the keyboard in this internet cafe has a few buttons jammed! haha- thats india for you - everywhere is a jam! So,my flight was ... Read more >

keeping off the frostbite

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 | By kjones | Views [699]

Well surprise surprise, i’ve again been rather slack on the only blog front. its been six months now since i last updated my travel blog and i never finished off the rest of my summer trip. From Cesky Krumlov I headed to Ollomouc which was an amazing ... Read more >

Gallery: London tourist stuff

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 | By jmmal2 | Photo Gallery