Travel Blogs from Buckingham, United Kingdom
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The Stately Garden
On Saturday we visited Stowe Gardens near Buckingham with our friends Christine and Keith. The house here is impressive at about 900 feet frontage, but we only saw it from a distance as it was not open to the public. (An old guide we were given shows ...
Post Christmas Update
In between Christmas with the family managed to book flights etc having spoken to our shipping agent. The dates had changed and the wagon now sails on 27th January direct to Cape Town; delivery to Essex is on the 20th January. It is scheduled to arrive ...
Getting close
Land Rover booked today for shipping to Cape Town on 18th January 2009 to be ready for containerisation on the 14th. Medical course tomorrow to learn how to sew legs back on (the right way around). House just about to go up for letting - so much to do ...
Buckingham
... don't meet someone coming the opposite way. We drove from Llanfair Caereinion through Welshpool into England to Shrewsbury into Buckingham to visit my second cousin, Jayne. Along the way we noticed the fields in England were larger, growing ...
Not to be outdone by the Snow
I was due to leave Buckingham and catch the National Coach to LHR terminal 5 at 4 a.m. on Wednesday morning (6th Jan) but it started snowing and the forecast was for more snow so I decided to catch the train down on Tuesday evening. I tried to book into a ...
Best laid plans
This is what happens when you let other people plan the trip and don't meet up before your about to go. The objective was to jump on the motorbikes and ride, no plans, no destinations (apart from get to the Alps) no timetables! then we bought the maps ...
They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace...
Christopher Robin went down with Alice ~ A. A. Milne Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British monarchy, and I hear Queen Elizabeth doesn't like it very much, and uses any excuse to get away from it. Anyhow, Buckingham ...
Buckinghamshire
Had an easy journey down to Buckinghamshire to stay with Sarah's cousin and his family. On the way we stopped for a couple of photos at "Bunny" (see photos below) This area consists of rolling hills of farmland - predominantly oil seed ...
4 Days till lift off!
I just thought I'd write something before we left! Four days to go and no packing has even begun to occur yet. Lots to do! Hopefully the next time we'll be writing in here, we will be sat in sunny Hong Kong!!!! X ...
The Epilogue
Well all good things must come to an end. I am now back at home after my Great Adventure circumnavigating the globe. It took me 65 days, and in that time I saw some of the most amazing sights in the world, The Grand Canyon, Victoria Falls, Table Mountain ...
Stowaways
... us so we headed off on a little train back to the cafe and headed off for our hotel. We are staying at the Villiers in Buckingham and it is centrally placed in the middle of Buckingham, we all have good rooms and dinner that night is lovely, a good find!! ...
Clocking up the miles!
... , but it has started us from Bangkok (our first blog entry) - we want to know the total since leaving England so have added this start marker to calulate from! If you are interested our current total is 12109 kilometers from Buckingham to Hue, ...
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