Destination: United Kingdom

No more charades...

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 | By stephen_haynes | Views [1126] | Comments [4]

Arriving in England  was something of a rude shock. After spending months in countries where English was not a first language and I was something of an anomoly, I suddenly found that I was just another face in the crowd. Where was my special treatment? ... Read more >

Tags: Friends

Gallery: 12. UK / San Sebastian

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 | By stephen_haynes | Photo Gallery

LONDON

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 | By jabrownie12345 | Views [532]

LONDON... We arrived in London on Tuesday, July 10th @ 1:00pm.  Figured out the rail to the Orient Express/St. Christopher's Inn and made ourselves at home.  We met a Canadian chick, Lauren, and scoped out some of the city with her.  That evening we ... Read more >

Tags: Culture

the first coming....

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 | By chloe | Views [643]

Well, after an interesting night at a cliche B&B in Penzance......orange nylon sheets, plastic flowers and garden gnomes in the hall, now thats a story for another time......I flew over by 28 seater helicopter to St Marys on the Isles of Scilly ... Read more >

Tags: Work

England as you know it

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 | By sophieollie | Views [691]

Hey everyone, Hope everyone is good? It has been a little while since I last wrote but for the last 2 weeks we have been in Brixham, which is in Devon, which is in South-West England, in case you didn't know. We came to visit my grandma who I haven't ... Read more >

Tags: People

Gallery: Cambridge

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 | By wick | Photo Gallery

Cambridge Revisited

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 | By wick | Views [806]

In Cambridge we've managed to catch up with loads of friends. Kim and Ainslie, Guy, Shelagh and wee Anna, Mel, Alex and Dan, Penny, Roger, Jenny, Richard et al! Within a few minutes of arriving we were walking down Mill Road and Mel cycled past - nice ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

Kenya - Part 1

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 | By jeffbrad | Views [4223] | Comments [1]

Mon 2nd July - Moving on day. Tomorrow another country. Mainly in the morning getting sorted and trying desperately to get rid of excess baggage . When I came to check out found another tax lurking around. So, you pay 12.5% service ... Read more >

Tags: Sightseeing

Gallery: London

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 | By kirstyhope | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Tower of London

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 | By juliep2 | Photo Gallery

Smiling on the tube

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 | By lani | Views [1366] | Comments [1]

Londoners don't like to smile much. Especially when they are riding on the tube (the sub ground train system here in London). Favourite passtimes on the tube each day, between work and home, include reading trashy newspapers, listening to iPods and also ... Read more >

Tags: planes trains & automobiles

UK - wet wet wet adventures

Mon, 9 Jul 2007 | By judy | Views [565] | Comments [1]

Just over 12 days in UK now and it has rained for nine of them - the weather has been so wet that when the latest terrorist attempts were foiled the mayor of London is quoted as saying that he is more concerned about the rain detering tourists than the ... Read more >

Tags: Sightseeing

Wimbledon

Mon, 9 Jul 2007 | By juliep2 | Views [564]

Tues, June 3. I went to work in the morning and made it through the day. I got off of work a tinny bit early so I could go to Wimbledon!!! I ended up meeting my roomie Kati at our home tube station. We scrambled to get down to the right stop... it took ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

Gallery: 4th of July

Mon, 9 Jul 2007 | By juliep2 | Photo Gallery

Gallery: My new home

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 | By tom_lynar | Photo Gallery