Destination: United Kingdom

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 [1339] | 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 [547] | 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 [534]

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

birmingham

Fri, 6 Jul 2007 | By hannah-may | Views [614]

i was pleasntly surprised by birmingham.  on missing out on a ticket to see "bright eyes" in london, i decided to go and see them in birmingham.  not that i was entirely sure where birmingham was.  not exactly known for its cultural sites, and ... Read more >

Tags: Markets

Toe Update

Fri, 6 Jul 2007 | By wick | Views [1454]

In my not-so-professional opinion and with full consideration of the available facts, I’m now pretty confident that the ‘sore toe’ (see Southampton Beer Festival) should be redesignated ‘the broken toe’. Nearly four weeks later most of the bruising ... Read more >

Tags: Doctors, hospitals & health

Gallery: Kent

Fri, 6 Jul 2007 | By wick | Photo Gallery

A Kentish Girl

Fri, 6 Jul 2007 | By wick | Views [1083]

The next day we had our longest drive to date – across to Birchington in Kent to meet up with a long lost cousin, Trevor Brook. He and his partner Irene were very welcoming and had more information about the family than I could take in in one ... Read more >

Tags: Family

London, UK

Thu, 5 Jul 2007 | By tedigeorgieva | Views [494] | Comments [1]

It's been nine days since we left Toronto. An enormous sigh of relief! After all, the posessions are gone to friends and strangers lifting the anchoring weight they've been adding to my life. Still, our backpacks feel heavier than we imagined, and I ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts 2007

Thu, 5 Jul 2007 | By wick | Views [1856] | Comments [2]

We left Bath and headed back to Glastonbury/Street through the Mendips. Vinnie didn’t like the uphill bits and narrow lanes much. We parked up at our favourite spot in Street and did the last minute shopping stuff in Glastonbury itself. Tom was on the ... Read more >

Tags: on the road

Bath

Thu, 5 Jul 2007 | By wick | Views [639]

Bath is a town planner’s victory! Lots of glorious buildings in harmony with each other. We took ourselves on a walking tour starting with the Royal Crescent then the Circus (where I found 2 quid yay!), then the baths old and new. We’d spent that ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

Gallery: Glastonbury Festival

Thu, 5 Jul 2007 | By wick | Photo Gallery