Ashford, United Kingdom Travel Blogs

Gliding: A Lesson in Cloud-Watching
Aug 4, 2007 (69 photos)

... 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 manager ...

I'm in Love
Jul 10, 2007

  "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!!
Oct 28, 2008

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 ...

Goodbye rain and clouds, hello sun
Nov 11, 2008

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)
Jun 7, 2006 (25 photos)

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
Jun 13, 2006

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 or ...

Test time
Jan 2, 2007

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
Aug 31, 2007

"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 ...

Pondering Planning n Shopping
Jul 6, 2006

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 ...

Fun Day Off
Jul 16, 2007

    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...
Dec 30, 2006

·        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 a ...

"The next station is..
May 9, 2006

...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 ...

Oh my God, the time we've had in the UK!!!
Jul 6, 2008

... 2 hours to even leave the airport, trying to get the right information for how to get down to the International train station at Ashford! We finally got here & then needed to catch the train back to Chistlehurst to go & pick up our bike & ...

A very Merry Christmas
Dec 25, 2005 (14 photos)

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
Mar 6, 2006

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
Dec 27, 2005 (3 photos)

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 thought ...

Getting mad
Feb 24, 2006

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 an ...

Returning to work
Mar 20, 2006

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
Mar 16, 2006

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 should ...

I know summer's coming
May 3, 2006

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
Apr 30, 2006 (14 photos)

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
Feb 23, 2006

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
Dec 17, 2005

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
Oct 10, 2005

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
Mar 13, 2006

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 ...

Who's in control?
Feb 2, 2006

It's a series of questions many of us have to answer at some point. Who is in control of my life? What is there to be in control of? What is it important to worry about controlling? What is it that's important to me? Working away from home is not ...

Leaving Do
Mar 4, 2007 (5 photos)

With a day before the off and the nerves kicking in I thought I would waste some time and put off packing by uploading some pictures of my leaving party last night. First stop was meal in Chicago Rock in Maidstone and then off to Jumpin' Jaks for a bit of ...

Ready for the off!
Jan 4, 2007

Hello everyone, Have just set up this Travelogue so I can keep you all updated on my adventures to Australia and beyond. Not off till 5th March, but this was one thing on a very long list of things to do before I go.   Adz.

Eurostar
Apr 11, 2006

... changing there to Eurostar. Now, one would think some sort of mega-emergency plan would be instituted...nope, wrong. I arrived at Ashford Domestic to find one giant queue, using the whole length of the main tunnel running under the six tracks. The ...

Packing, packing, packing
Apr 4, 2009

So this is my first entry... (great introductory line). Well never actually blogged before, so we'll have to see how this one pans out. Chances are I might get bored and 'forget' to keep this up (I've never been good with diaries or putting down thoughts ...