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Mad Cowes Disease

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 | By gentlesue | Views [2153] | Comments [6]

Hiya, How is everyone? I’d like to say a big thanks to you all for your birthday messages of cheer. I had a very nice birthday. I went out for dinner at an Indian restaurant with some people from school and some people who I have met through timeplan ... Read more >

Tags: People

Resumos: Londres

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 | By vana_gwen | Views [867]

Bom, a primeira coisa que você precisa saber de Londres é que ela é de todas as cidades a que eu mais gostei, uma porque em Londres você se locomove de tudo: ônibus, metro, trem e o melhor de tudo é possível fazer tudo isso sem se perder. Outra porque ... Read more >

Arrived in Norwich 11th December 2009

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 | By finh | Views [757]

WOOHOO!! Finally arrived in Norwich after a gruelling twelve hour journey, leaving the foggy, wet Westcountry behind me. Bleary eyed & exhausted,after a three am start, I gather my belongings of rucksack, bright blue, giant holdall, plastic ... Read more >

London and Paris

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 | By florida_family | Views [668] | Comments [3]

Our departure from Florida was made a little more exciting by a last minute change in plans. I checked the US Air website at about 11 to find out about our 5:15 pm flight, only to discover it was delayed so that we would miss our connection to London.... Read more >

Tags: Sightseeing

The Bap/Barm/Butty Conundrum

Wed, 14 May 2014 | By | Views [533] | Scholarship Entry

Do I want a bap, a barm, or a butty? It's a sunny Monday afternoon in Cambridge and my bike and I have just narrowly escaped certain death on a roundabout . To celebrate I decided to nip into a sandwich shop. A local one, not Subway, because my parents ... Read more >

Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip

Scotland - 26th June 2009

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 | By ange_turls | Views [511] | Comments [3]

We have just returned from a five day Haggis Adventure in the Scottish Highlands and are feeling a wee bit weary! Loz was kindly waiting for us when we arrived in Heathrow early on Saturday morning, despite having a sore head from birthday ... Read more >

Randomness in Lima

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 | By angelas_away | Views [462] | Comments [1]

So today I arrived in Lima, had to get up at 4am for a 7:30am flight. I arrived at the airport and suddenly realised it was very different from Brazil, which I had started to get used to over the last 2 weeks. So an awkward hour or so hanging around ... Read more >

Tags: Food & eating

York

Sat, 21 Feb 2015 | By irenecabay | Views [440]

I took the express train to York. It took 2 hours. Not sure where to go first, I quickly made up my mind upon exiting the train station and seeing York Minster tower above every other building. It would be very difficult to get lost finding it. The queue ... Read more >

My life - all 8 kilos of it!

Sat, 3 Mar 2012 | By oliviadj | Views [376] | Comments [2]

8 kilos. Yes, that is right. You read correctly. 8 kilos is what my backpack weighed at the airport. That is all I will have from home as I set off to start my 4.5 month adventure as a newly fledged backpacker. My list - obviously, was rather ... Read more >

The People We Meet

Mon, 25 May 2015 | By | Views [201] | Scholarship Entry

What we do and see out there on the open road of our lives can sometimes vanish from our memory like streaming images of landscape, there and then forgotten. But who we meet, and what they do for us along the way, stays with us, and is what turns adventure ... Read more >

Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship

Photos: My Scholarship entry - London My City

Sun, 6 Jan 2013 | By shooting-star | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

Hi there My name is Sarah Khalil and I live in London. I am a Pharmacist by profession where my day is mostly spent in a tiny dispensary counting tablets and measuring colourful liquids. However on days that I am let out of the dispensary, I love 'seeing' ... Read more >
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Photos: Paris

Wed, 29 May 2013 | By linda_mikeblog | Photo Gallery

Sorry- still only iPhone pictures, I have many more photos on my camera, but don't have time to find an Internet cafe
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Photos: Passport & Plate - roasted butternut squash & red pepper soup

Thu, 13 Mar 2014 | By rosielea | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

Ingredients 1 large or 2 small Butternut squash 2-3 medium red peppers (or more smaller ones) 2 onions 3 tbsp olive oil 1 tsp ground cumin 1 litre of homemade chicken stock or 1/2 good quality chicken stock cube in 1 litre hot water swirl of double ... Read more >
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