Destination: United Kingdom

England - PLAY to your heart's content!

Mon, 3 Jul 2006 | By tempest | Views [1320]

Play To Your Heart’s Content!   What a crazy first weekend of July!   I got a lift from some people I met at the fire twirling meets on Monday nights in the Meadows in Edinburgh down to the Play festival near Shrewsbury in ... Read more >

Tags: The Great Outdoors

in the village

Sat, 1 Jul 2006 | By maurajeanie | Views [583] | Comments [1]

Here we are in England, just about an hour south of London at the home of Helen (mum of Jophace - steve's godson) and her daughter Angelina. They were here yesterday and the night I got here but now we have the house to ourselves, with beds and evrathing! ... Read more >

Tags: the village path

Gallery: Chatsworth House

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 | By keera | Photo Gallery

Prognosis: World Cup Fever

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 | By garyspaz | Views [1634]

Yes that's right, it's the obligatory world cup post. I'm sure ever blogger sitting on his or her purdy white iBook is currently waxing poetic about "the world game" and that I am only adding more salt to the wound, but god damnit at this point I'm far ... Read more >

Tags: Culture

Gallery: Derby

Sat, 17 Jun 2006 | By keera | Photo Gallery

Scotland; 'One man's thorn is another man's thistle!'

Sat, 17 Jun 2006 | By tempest | Views [2355]

Send my love to the Winter gales in Australia.  I'm staying in sunny Scotland! So I finally made it to Scotland late Saturday night and was picked up at Glasgow Pickwick airport by a good friend I hadn’t seen in a few years (a warming ... Read more >

Tags: Doctors, hospitals & health

Gallery: Goreme, Cappadocia

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 | By keera | Photo Gallery

The Traveller

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 | By garyspaz | Views [836] | Comments [1]

Travelling has never really appealed to me, and after my last two quick jaunts to Norway and France, a highly odd couple if you asked me, I’ve been trying to understand exactly what has been holding me back, and the conclusion that I came to is something ... Read more >

Tags: Culture

England 1a

Thu, 8 Jun 2006 | By shannon | Views [503]

Just a brief one from memory of the past 4 days since we landed at Heathroe coz everyone else is packing the van to go to Germany and I look like the slack ass I am at the moment by letting them do all the work while I sit and email and what not. sarah ... Read more >

Tags: Sightseeing

Gallery: England

Wed, 7 Jun 2006 | By shannon | Photo Gallery

Gallery: London ('05)

Thu, 1 Jun 2006 | By gscottie | Photo Gallery

RE: Ni Hao!

Fri, 19 May 2006 | By garyspaz | Views [700]

Not that I want to brag or anything, but I totally rule when it comes to emails. Some of the stuff I've written to mates and friends, even people I hardly know or even like, is, to be blunt, Pulitzer material. I often imagine the scene when someone ... Read more >

Tags: Culture

Gallery: First days in Edinburgh

Fri, 12 May 2006 | By smartin1978 | Photo Gallery

Five things I learned about London this week

Thu, 11 May 2006 | By garyspaz | Views [746] | Comments [1]

1. As far as I can decipher, London has no native insects. None. Presumably the legendary fierce wrath of the English summer might lure a few stragglers, but I can't really see myself rushing out to track down mozzie coils and aeroguard any time soon.... Read more >

Tags: Culture

Dead man working

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 | By garyspaz | Views [1380] | Comments [1]

The great thing about not working, apart from the fact that you are not working, is that you have the time and the energy to maintain a healthy web journal about how much time you have to maintain a healthy web journal now that you're not working. It's ... Read more >

Tags: Culture