United Kingdom Travel Blogs

Back In Norfolk
Aug 5, 2006 (8 photos)

I spent most of the week slaving, that's right whip crack, at my Nan's house, doing some decorating for her. Had a great time, and I don't think I could have a better employer. Turned up with a hangover one morning, and she said, don't worry about it go ...

HOME
Jul 25, 2006

We hung about with Shane and Steve of a few days to catch up. We still had 2 weeks left till our flight home. Shane was heading down to Sydney and Steve was waiting to go north still. This would have mean't hanging about Brisbane for a week, with little ...

Upgrade...
Feb 28, 2008 (13 photos)

At the airport, we made our way to the British Airways desk to drop our main backpacks off, and I greeted the gentleman behind the counter with a friendly "ohio gozaimasu." He seemed to take an eternity to look at our passports, and was busy pressing keys ...

The Great Ocean Road: Warning, Very Wet
Sep 11, 2005 (6 photos)

Another day, another bus tour! This time only eight of us setting out from Melbourne and only three of us really speak English; there's an Austrian couple, an Indonesian couple, a middle-aged Finnish man, a middle-aged Australian woman on the way to ...

London
Jan 11, 2008 (24 photos)

I met Rick by the London Eye. It was a drizzly, damp, gloomy day. Normal London weather, I suppose, but not exactly promising sweeping vistas of the skyline. Ah well, we boarded our capsule and were bourne up towards the sky. Water droplets stuck to the ...

A new chapter.
Oct 10, 2009

So I left you and left my travel blog in March!  I was in Agra India and had about of month traveling left in me. So where am i now and why has it taken me 7 months to get back on this web site? First i will start with where i left off.  We were ...

London, St. Neots and Cambridge and London and....
Aug 27, 2006 (18 photos)

The last 3 weeks of our stay in England, were both surreal, exciting, hard work, drunken, expensive and ultimately sad and happy all the same time. Weekdays were spent working hard painting and decorating in London, and although hard, is very satisfying ...

Off again. China 2007.
Jun 17, 2007

Thanks for taking a look at my travelogue. I still enjoy taking an occasional look at the original diary and my favourite photos of the trip. As time goes on I am all the more glad I kept it This year I am off to China in September for the Foyle ...

Returning to old haunts- and some good new ones
Jan 4, 2008 (42 photos)

I caught the train to Bristol for the weekend. Jacqui greeted me at the station, we picked up some proper West Country doorstep sandwiches and then went to Jacqui's place to eat them, whilst resisting Rosie the beagle's most endearing efforts to look cute ...

Almost home and extremely jet lagged
May 22, 2007

Will update ASAP

Dum Dum Da Dum
Jul 28, 2006 (23 photos)

After a week for me with my brother in St. Neots, seeing some old pals, bumming around and playing x-box and Kate slaving away painting and decorating down in London. I trained it down to London, and Kate and me got a lift with Luke the night before the ...

Meet The Charities.
Feb 19, 2004 (3 photos)

Many, if not most of you will not have heard of these charities before. Therefore before I set of on my cycle adventure I would like to briefly introduce you to the organizations I want to benefit from my pedal power and why I chose them. The Foyle ...

Up up and away............
Sep 5, 2006

Hello to everyone again. Paul and Ciara are back on their travels again. Hope you all missed our online updates. We left Belfast at 8.10am on an easyjet flight to Luton on 3rd September. As we didn't need to fly out of London Heathrow until 9.30 pm ...

How you can help the charities.
Mar 1, 2004

I hope that some of you who explore this travelogue will, like me, decide that these three charities are very worthwhile causes. If you do wish to donate a bank account specially for this event has been opened. Myself and a representative of one of the ...

The End of The Story.
Sep 8, 2004 (3 photos)

Well, the grand tour is all over bar the shouting. Looking back over some of these entries brings back great memories. I'm really glad I kept this, although at time it was hard work, some I wrote when I was tired, some when I was a bit drunk, some when I ...

Resting at Tara, and preparations for my next trip
Aug 26, 2007 (5 photos)

I plan on stopping at the Tara Centre for a few weeks to meditate, work on my spiritual journey, buddhism and I have started planning my next trip. Looks like its off to the Alps Around Decemebr, or January for ski mountaineering with ...

Kings, Queens and Double Decker Buses
Mar 14, 2005 (45 photos)

Visit Klenske, Ink. It may have took us a bit longer to get here then expected, but we made it, just the next day. We flew out of Dubuque fine, but once we boarded our plane in Chicago, and sat there on the runway for two hours, we were told that it ...

London City
Jun 5, 2006 (8 photos)

London, a capital of Great Britain, is a place full of magical, details and excitement! I just love it! London Eye The London Eye is one of the largest observation wheels in the world. It stands 135 metres (443 feet) high on the western end of ...

Introduction
Apr 17, 2006

This travelogue will be the home to my upcoming journey around the world with my pal Vinny. The idea, in it's simplest form, is to go once around the globe without resorting to air travel. Along the way, we plan to watch England beat Brazil in the ...

Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Jul 27, 2007

"You know why they put oxygen masks on planes? Oxygen gets you high. In a catastrophic emergency, you're taking giant panicked breaths. Suddenly you become euphoric, docile. You accept your fate. It's all right here. Emergency water landing - 600 miles an ...

Fun and Frustration in England Lake District
Jul 4, 2009 (5 photos)

So, we set off to do something we'd been anticipating for quite a while. We visited a national park in England called the 'Lakes District’, which often spoken of by our English friends as a beautiful place to go, a ‘must visit’ in ...

The Clock In San Dimas
May 16, 2006

It's weird, you know. Less than three weeks to go before we set off on a journey that could take years. The amount of things there are to do is astounding. I've got to somehow move out of my flat, store my possessions I don't want to throw away at my ...

Up Up and Awayski
Mar 6, 2005

By the time you read this we will be airborne, and on our way to St Petersberg (the Venice of the north) the starting point for the first few days of our yearlong adventure. We then plan to take the overnight train to Moscow and it's from there that we'll ...

Week One in Merry Old England
Jul 21, 2007 (45 photos)

Already we have been in Merry Old England for a whole week.  Time flies when you are eating fish and chips on a daily basis.  We have been happily ensconced in the little village known as "Old", completely spared from the torrents of rain ...

Bye Bye Blighty
Dec 22, 2004

So, here we are at last, Packed and ready to go, well almost. Just A few weeks to go and still so much to do, finishing research, checking on Visa applications,and buying those 'must have' gadgets ... the self inflating, solar powered, light weight, ...

Knowle to Mexico City
Dec 8, 2004 (2 photos)

And so it all begins, we left Knowle behind at 8.00AM, 1 hour later than planned due to 3 hours sleep the night before! It was a nervous jounrney down the M40 through thick fog, thanks to Rog for the lift. We bought the last few things we needed from ...

Ready to depart!
May 16, 2008

Getting ready to leave...... Only a few things to get sorted before jetting off now.  Have 4 weeks left to go (A month today!!) Will be booking flights tonight, and other than selling my car, boxing up my things and getting on the first flight ...

Haggis, Whisky and Nessie... it must be Scotland!
Jul 1, 2009

Our 7th day saw us finally make it into Scotland. I absolutely loved Scotland last time I was here and I was hoping that I would still feel the same this time around. We headed into Glasgow (my least favourite place last time) and after spending a few ...

Heathrow
Apr 5, 2007

heathrow

Why Not Fly?
Apr 17, 2006

It's not going to be cheap to do it this way round. Especially when you consider that a round the world flight can be as cheap as £650 these days. And it's not, as many people suspect, that we're scared of flying. Quite the opposite. In fact, I get ...