Bournemouth
Travel Blogs from Bournemouth, United Kingdom
"Profoundly Bournemouth"
... speed limits. Bournemouth, the home to the grey haired surfers; Bournemouth the home to one of Britain's alleged best beaches; Bournemouth the place that every single person that day decided to come down to and find themselves a little bit of sand ...
Am Strand :-)
Kilometerlange Sandstrände und klares Wasser, es ist wunderschön hier. Bournemouth gehört zu den wärmsten, trockensten und sonnigsten Orten Englands. Viele Briten verbringen ihre Sommerferien hier. Auch bei Sprachstudenten ist dieser Ort sehr beliebt. ...
Counting down the days
I cant believe how quickly the time is going to our flight date. Soo much still to get sorted. Passport?? Where did I last see it! bugger ..,.. Temperature ion Oz ois hanging in the late 30's. Looking forward to iceskating at Rockefella.. The amount of ...
Weiterreise nach Bournemouth
... ich ja nicht am Ziel. Gegen Mittag gings für mich weiter mit einem Car in den Süden Englands, um genauer zu sein, nach Bournemouth. Diese touristische Stadt direkt am Meer wird für die nächsten acht Wochen mein zu Hause sein. Ich wohne dort in einem ...
A Day with our Curriculum Partners
We spent the day, individually, with our Bournemouth and Poole College (BPC) colleagues. I visited 3 different classes and got to talk English, literature, and football (American and British) with Roy Watson, my curriculum adviser. Today was the first ...
Off we go
I woke up after a sleepless night (well would you sleep if you were taking a trip into the unknown the next day?), safe in the knowledge that I was packed, ready and nothing could go wrong. It was then the panic set in. Where were my tickets? my ...
Zwischenbericht nach der ersten Halbzeit
Unglaublich, wie schnell die Zeit vergeht! Nun habe ich schon mehr als die Hälfte meines Sprachaufenthalts hinter mir. England ist (abgesehen vom Wetter ^^) wirklich toll. Ich könnte mir gut vorstellen, für längere Zeit dort zu leben. Die Leute sind ...
Our last day in Bournemouth...
... the day with a dinner with our curriculum partners (Jacob-mine, Louise-Julie's, Roy-Matt's and Claire-prior exchange participant) somewhere in Bournemouth or Poole (we haven't decided yet). I may have pictures to post, but am not sure that I will be ...
Exploring Bournemouth and Poole College
... . Jeckyle and Mr. Hyde after awakening from a nightmare. And J.R.R.Tolkien sold the movie rights to The Hobitt in a hotel here in Bournemouth. And a particularly grim story about a WWII bombing raid, a lost body, and a stopped bell tower. I let you fill ...
Our first visit to the campus
... space in between those buildings has been filled in with more school buildings in the 1950s. The library for the city of Bournemouth was taken over by the school as well and it has a distinctive clock tower that faces a busy roundabout in town. We ...
The Exodus
Ok, so here i am, sat on a plane, somewhere over africa by the looks of the vast expanses of deserts and mountains stretching out below me. Let me explain a little about the intriguing sequence of events which has brought me to this point. About 5 months ...
Day with Curriculum partner
May 10th Today is the designated day with our curriculum partners; My day began at 8:30 and ended at a little after 5pm. My CP was Jacob Gritz a psychology lecturer. I went to 4 classes with him today, including 2 Access courses (with ...
Prüfung überstanden :-) / Abschied :-(
... aber erst Anfang Oktober. Dauert immer zu lange, das Ganze... Und heute heisst's Abschied nehmen von den Klassenkameraden, Lehrern und von Bournemouth. Ich werde so viel vermissen, wenn ich zurück in der Schweiz bin. Es war eine tolle Zeit hier in ...
42 days to go
Well this is my first attempt at a blog. In an effort to try and record/describe what the future may hold for me on becoming a TEFL teacher traveling the World, after taking Asia by force first. I have finally paid off everything, this includes ...
Exploring Bournemouth town centre
... side of Bournemouth, particularly the town centre. We ended the day with a dinner at the home of one of our Bournemouth and Poole colleagues, Louise. This day started much better for me. Yesterday I awoke with a headache and weak ...
Sandbanks
Haha I lied, I still had to tell you all about Sandbanks, where we went on Sunday. Sandbanks (for those who don't know) is the most desirable and sort after place to live in the UK. I is a small sandbank that has been developed, houses have a view of the ...
The attractivity of the Beach
... on it. ------------ March 25 Eamon left to Liverpool, its been a lost Sunday for me. ------------ March 26 Another tour of Bournemouth, I went to the Tourist Office and got all the pamphlet that might be useful. I walked around to try to spot ...
Teaching and Learning Forum
... keep our bags until we could return from the above meeting and relocate. We moved to the Riviera Hotel in western Bournemouth (very close to Poole); http://www.rivierabournemouth.co.uk/. After arranging our rooms, we went out into town and ...
Last Day
... were stained glass windows, elaborate door trims, an even stained-glass skylights. The view from the house, of the Bournemouth beach, was beautiful. The grounds also contain a small but nice garden. After exploring the house, we headed ...
Getting oriented to the Bournmouth area
... , as we are able to access the internet in the lobby. As you can see, I took a picture of the Bournemouth & Poole College (Landsdowne centre), some local creatures, and some hotels in the area before we began our outing for the ...
Bowls championship, here we come!
Saturday May 12-Bowls championship, here we come! Overview: Bowls, Compton Gardens, Dinner at Claire Richards' house and of course, Eurovision! This morning Julie & I wandered around while Matt was busily finishing up some work for ...
We're Kings of the World!
May 13, 2007 Sunday-We're Kings of the World! Today we woke to quite a bit of rain and a chill in the air. Taking a trip to London (as we had discussed at one point) did not seem like the best idea... Julie had spoken with Louise ...
The journey Begins
What else do you do on a Sunday except recover from the previous night.. Fish puke out of the sink and moisturise parts of the body that shouldn't have seen dilapidating cream. Oh yeh! and start our travel blogs... 4 weeks and counting the time is ...
London to Bournemouth
... make it!!!! We nearly shit our pants. So that night we found a busline (they call it coach here) with £9 tickets to bournemouth (southern england) so we jumped on it. Got right wasted in our hostel by ourselfs that night. Ive been drinking lot of ...
Day 112 - 20 June - Off down the coast
Wondering what to look at today and had seen Lulworth cove and castle in a few brochures around the place so decided to go and have a Captain Cook. Drove down the coast and took a detour near Lulworth to a spot called Durdle door on the Jurassic coast. ...
Day 106 - 14 June - A nothing day
Not a good one. Reading, writing, TVing. I went for a walk up to the village but that was about it. Hopefullly tomorrow will bring us a much brighter day. ...
Day 104 - 12 June - Looking for our dream car
Another overcast morning. Went to the pub for a late breakfast - they advertise that they have the best breakfast. Not too bad at all. Spent most of the day looking in the paper and on the internet for car sales. Found a few that ...
Day 103 - 11 June - A walk in the local village
Woke to the sound of rain and an overcast sky - Welcome to England. As it was Saturday we wandered up to the village and there was a market in the mall. Bought some cheap DVD's as the unit has a player and a nice big tv. Bought some ...
Day 109 - 17 June - Stonehenge and a big church
Had a look at the map and saw we weren't far from Stonehenge so thought we'd take the opportunity to go for a look. They say television makes things look bigger than they are and that was certainly the case here...we were expecting something larger. The ...

