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Ashford
Travel Blogs from Ashford, United Kingdom
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Gliding: A Lesson in Cloud-Watching
This is a top pick! ... the strongest motion sickness pills available in the pharmaceutical market). So Saturday came along and we drove down to Ashford with Lucy and David. We were going to meet John, David's good friend from BT and Ed's current ...
I'm in Love
"I think I'm in love" that's what the text message read that I sent to Catie after visiting Shannon for the first time. I've never had a man manipulate my body in so many ways before! Shannon, he's a physio. I'm not ...
Two Weeks to Go!!
Day: -14 Tuesday October 28th With only 2 weeks to go before I depart for my American Adventure, I still have sooo much to do! I haven't even thought about packing yet, but I have thought about what shoes and handbags to take and which ones I'm ...
All the better trilogies come in threes.
... sharing a double, while they are bunking up! · I went to a Baptist Church service in Ashford (our local borough) with Karl on Sunday, which was a bit of a new experience! There are elements of it that I ...
Goodbye rain and clouds, hello sun
Day -1 Monday November 10 One day to go and I'm all packed... well almost. I'm debating whether a couple of my T shirts are actually needed, since I'll be buying out half of Forever 21 and Urban Outfitters when I arrive. Anyway, my suitcase is ...
The life I leave behind (photo album narrative)
Commuting from the town I grew up in, to London every day takes its toll. It's easy to see why. Wake at 6am, leave by 7am, back by 7.30pm. It doesn't leave time or energy for a lot else, and that's without any after work socialising and the commuter's ...
To Blog or Not to Blog
Sometimes I think I want to stop writing a travelogue. It feels as though it's becoming a monster. And yet, I'm learning to come to terms with what it is and what it means and represents for me. Initially, I started writing to trap moments in time ...
Test time
My body complainingly wakes up, almost disbelieving. I can make out the bright full moon through the curtains. I shouldn't be awake should I? I slowly recognise the quiet murmurings of the radio and gradually the noise becomes decipherable as ...
Birthday Celebration #1
"So what ya doin' 4 ya b day?" read a text from Antz, a friend from Princes Club. Shoot, I forgot about my birthday again! Well it's Thrusday, my birthday is on Sunday. I'll be in Spain by then, but I wanna celebrate with my friends here! So ...
I love fridays
That 'end of the week' feeling! Unfortunately its often accompanied by the fact that the weekends seem to often end up being more busy than the weekdays! No rest for the wicked, but we can live in hope! So this week: Monday was the first group led Global ...
Pondering Planning n Shopping
Haven't really thought about it. It doesn't really matter. Booking the ticket was a bit random, but it's done and I sort of knew what price I should pay and think I have a good deal. Before I go, I know there's a long list of things I should take care ...
Day One: And so the cycle begins...
... . Donaldson's Alan Sinclair, and Crown Timber’s Jeremy English and Anthony Burridge set off at 9:30 this morning from DTE Ashford, making their way across to DTE Andover, with an overnight stop in Horsham. Our keen cyclists have so far clocked up ...
Fun Day Off
So Sunday night after the Wiremill comp, I had to come back to Liquid to measure jump night and then go to Princes Club to watch the Relentless team double up contest. Catie shut the shop real fast, we got our stuff ...
You know you're back because...
· You can't find the light switch in the dark. · You've got poo bags in your pocket to clean up after the dog! · You've got ...
The snowball gathers momentum
Christmas has just been and gone with the exchanging of presents, laughter, debate and good times. There's nothing like a good chat about Britians social affairs sandwiched between the roast turkey with all the trimmings and Ice Age 3: Dawn of ...
Last Blog!
Okie dokie, so I have been home two and half weeks! The flights home from Beira, Mozambique went well and in a straightforward sort of fashion, I was waved off by Heather, John, some of the boys and Joyce one of Kedeshs workers (it was her first ...
"The next station is..
...Pluckley," and so drawls on the electronic voice on the train. Why can't they make it a bit more interesting or add an original twist to it. " The next station is Pluckley, the most haunted village in England. After nightfall there are seven ghosts ...
A very Merry Christmas
I've been pondering for a while how to describe this christmas. Words escape me other than to say that it was full of wonderful calm, almost mundane nice things that don't happen so often. I guess that's the pleasure and comfort of being around your ...
Shaping my future
Having spent July-September 2005 master of my own path and answerable to nobody, I came to have a greater sense of who and what I am as an individual and how I am defined by the people I met and meet. It was a hugely entertaining, interesting and at ...
Almost a White Christmas
The night before I'd been walking home from the snooker club with my dad when it started. I was so cold I had a headache and my fleece jacket looked like it belonged on a snowman. So what, this is the south of England, it never snows much here I ...
Getting mad
I nearly lost it, and the red mist was descending in swathes. Fortunately, I was 500 miles away from the object of my ire at the time. As I currently work away from home for my London-based employer, living in a Glasgow hotel 4 nights a week, I have ...
Returning to work
It's Monday morning and the brain doesn't want to work. That's a feeling shared by millions but for me today it's a little bit more poignant. It's the first time back to work in 3 weeks and I'm blowed if I'm going to push myself to get out of the door ...
Gettinng ready to go again
It's holiday time! Just a couple of weeks and I'm off to China again. Visa acquired, the penny's starting to drop that I'm going to be busy (like really busy) before I go, and I need to be ready to leave in a hurry, and there are lots of things I ...
Oh my God, the time we've had in the UK!!!
... not stop there & we actually had to catch 2 more trains to get where we needed to go! Anyway, between the train to Ashford & to Chistlehurst & back, we forked out $160!!! Saturday, we thought after the stress we could relax a little. We ...
I know summer's coming
In front of me on the path lay hundreds of small, round white dots. The petals of the spring blossoms have done their job for another year, and fallen scattered on the ground like early snowflakes. The leaves of the hawthorn bushes beside the traffic ...
Birthday BBQ
A BBQ to celebrate another year of my sister's life and to test our ingenuity and durability against the elements. The tent was rigged up against the rain which never came, and the wind stayed away so we never found out if it would fly away with us ...
Jerusalem
When I'm abroad, the militaristic, imperialistic undertones of Jerusalem sometimes make me cringe a little, but here is where it belongs, and it sounds good playing over in my mind as I gaze out across the North Downs with a ripping North Easterly wind ...
The pleasures of dog-sitting and xmas shopping
I never thought I'd hear myself say it, but I almost enjoyed Christmas shopping. It's a scary thought and maybe one that will not be repeated, but everything has its time and place. After what has basically been 6 months straight of moving from bed to ...
Going mad after 24 hours off work
A year away, 5 days back in the office getting myself put back on the payroll (important), getting email (useful), getting an id card (helpful), and reading numerous management and administrative documentation (yawn), and it's time for a holiday. Even ...
Garden Therapy
Off work in ill health, run down, low in the mind, body a bit abused and a bit disaffected is not a place or a state of mind I'd choose to find myself in and yet it's remarkable how in this age of computers, television and all manner of whizzing ...
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