Destination: United Kingdom

24 May 2008, Saturday

Sun, 25 May 2008 | By ronsan | Views [309] | Comments [1]

After a good night's sleep, got up fairly early and went for a walk. Decided (naughtily!) to call in to MacDonald's and have breakfast there. No different to an Aussie one except that the coffee was appalling!! Drove with Sam and Nicole to Stratford ... Read more >

23 May 2008 - Friday

Fri, 23 May 2008 | By ronsan | Views [332]

Woke up this morning to a rather overcast day, with a bit of rain! Left Jean and Chris's with Sam to go for our tour of Prodrive and Aston Martin, where Sam works. It was a lovely drive, very green and soft. Had a personal tour which was very interesting;... Read more >

22nd May - Thursday

Thu, 22 May 2008 | By ronsan | Views [313]

Up bright and early this morning despite lack of sleep over the past few days and the amount of wine consumed last night!! Visited Windsor and Eton today, including a short cruise on the Thames between Windsor and Boveney. Walked around Eton and saw a ... Read more >

20th May - 21st May -Tuesday -Wednesday

Wed, 21 May 2008 | By ronsan | Views [368]

We are now (1645) over North Queensland, travelling at 896 kph! We left, right on time, at 1435, Di Liam and Hayley seeing us off from Sydney. We are currently flying at 36106ft @ 793 kph. We have only been in the air two and a half hours but have had ... Read more >

The flight over!!!!

Wed, 21 May 2008 | By the_emster | Views [288]

Gallery: Scotland 08

Wed, 21 May 2008 | By nomadicsoul | Photo Gallery

All Good Things

Tue, 20 May 2008 | By spongey | Views [764]

Come to an end, some of them come to a premature end, like my participation in this round the world trip. For those of you that haven't heard 3rd party, or that i haven't yet seen myself, i am infact home in England. After (what i believe) was ... Read more >

Chillaxed Travel

Tue, 20 May 2008 | By tinka | Views [824]

So we headed up to Arbroath today - it wasn't far away at all and was well worth the trip.  15-20mins away from Dundee by train; it's a reasonably sized town on the East coast of Scotland below Aberdeen. EmJ and I hit the town around about 11:30am ... Read more >

Tags: abbey, arbraoth, seagulls

London in a Day

Tue, 20 May 2008 | By alysandjess | Views [700]

We were told we couldn't do London in a day. But when you have a current exchange rate such as ours, you can't be too choosey so Alys and I decided to live it up in London for just one day. Just one. And it wasn't nearly enough but we made do. It began ... Read more >

Gallery: Cambridge and London

Tue, 20 May 2008 | By alysandjess | Photo Gallery

Scotland 2008: A weekend of bagpipes, falafel, castles and crazy pubs!

Tue, 20 May 2008 | By nomadicsoul | Views [1073]

What is adventure? Adventure is getting on an unmarked train in an empty train station with only the vaguest of assumptions that it goes where you want it to go! On my free weekend from Corrymeela, Camille and I decided to hop across the sea ... Read more >

Tags: adventure, castle rock hostel, edinburgh, ferry, scotland, stranraer, train trips

Brighton

Mon, 19 May 2008 | By ruffhead | Views [304]

Well, this weekend (16-18th May) i went to see Richard, Denise, Lisa, Amanda and Michael down in Brighton! Also saw Chris, great to talk to another Australian!!! caught the bus down on Friday morning afetr running around Birmingham for 20 mins trying ... Read more >

The Oz Experience Begins

Mon, 19 May 2008 | By bulwer | Views [863] | Comments [1]

Well after some problems with flights which Alex has detailed we eventually made it safe and sound to Sydney (minus biltong =[ ). More of Alex's wonderful extended family greeted us and then proceeded to help us a lot with various touristy things. At ... Read more >

Sunday in Swansea

Mon, 19 May 2008 | By tregenza_family | Views [647]

Today we went to Swansea to have lunch at David Boucher's house. David is involved with Ian's research project and is Professor of Politics at Cardiff. Also invited to lunch was Neville Masterman who taught history for many years at the University at ... Read more >

Gallery: Sunday in Swansea

Mon, 19 May 2008 | By tregenza_family | Photo Gallery