Destination: United Kingdom

in Somerset

Tue, 4 Jul 2006 | By maurajeanie | Views [619] | Comments [2]

Forest Row was sweet, tho i was ready to go by the time we left. Then getting onto the motorway with the weekend traffic made me want to go back. Still, i had faith that the rest of England wasn't going to be like the motorway. it was hot (though not ... Read more >

Tags: Relaxation

england's final game in Cup

Tue, 4 Jul 2006 | By maurajeanie | Views [546]

Well, it was extreme cultural immersion. short and intense. Most of you know that I've hardly ever been to a sporting event. I went to a Giant's baseball game in SF. For the Cup, however, I'd been following australia's games because Steve and Marley ... Read more >

Tags: Culture

Gallery: england's last game in World Cup 06

Tue, 4 Jul 2006 | By maurajeanie | Photo Gallery

Walking Hadrian's Wall

Mon, 3 Jul 2006 | By rob_wood | Views [1243]

Hadrian's Wall is one of those things that anybody who wants to spend a little time in England really should see. It's a wall, a very long one actually, that was built by the Roman emperor, Hadrian, in the second century to either keep the Scots out ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

England - PLAY to your heart's content!

Mon, 3 Jul 2006 | By tempest | Views [1460]

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 [618] | 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 [1677]

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 [2433]

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 [886] | 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 [550]

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