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Huddersfield Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Huddersfield, United Kingdom
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Making a list, checking it twice
If you know me well, you'll know I love lists. To-do lists, shopping lists, must-do-before-you-shuffle-off-this-mortal-coil lists, I live by them and love nothing more than the satisfaction of ticking something off. So it will come as no surprise to ...
Goodbye Huddersfield - We're off round the World
We are going round the world tomorrow! It was an exciting but slightly scary thought for both of us and it felt like we had loads to do before we would feel ready to board the plane. Perhaps here is the best place for a bit of background info on our ...
The Countdown it on
Well, the countdown has begun in earnest now... after months of talking about it to each other, then talking to other people about it, then talking to various travel agents about it, we are now fully vaccinated (you all know how much I hate needles!), we ...
Day 26
... last time. We piled into the car with Uncle Graham and Aunty Pat and waved to Leo and Elaine as we drove off towards Huddersfield. The drive to Huddersfield took just over 2 hours with us stopping for petrol around 30 minutes away from our ...
There is a great deal of wickedness....
"There is a great deal of wickedness in village life" Miss Marple, The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie Part One Lucky for us we discovered none of the wickedness frequently encountered by Miss Marple in our time in the English Countryside though ...
5 Weeks to go.........
21st August 2006 Well we are closer than ever now and we are really excited about our trip. We are busy making the final, and I might add, the most important preparations. I am busy buying a whole new wardrobe to take with me while Daniel is busy ...
Love the Dogs!
Thank you to everyone who came to the dogs, we had a fantastic time! Here are some photo's of you ...
On our way!
WOW what a week! No sooner had we unpacked our bags and repacked our belongings into storage we were packing again to start our adventure! We had only a very short time to catch up with family before we were saying our goodbyes again. Although we never ...
And now the end is here....
Since packing in our jobs 10 months ago we have been on a roller coaster of adventure and emotion. Today is our final day in Rio, this time tomorrow we will be back to life in England, back to reality. There will be no one waiting for us at the airport ...
Part 2
Where does time go we ask ourselves as we are yet again packing our back packs for part 2 of our great adventure. We've spent 4 fabulous weeks at home between trips during which time we were able to experience the coldest winter in about 30 years which ...
Driving home for Christmas
We have travelled 9,850km over 43 days from Nairobi overland to Cape Town with Acacia on a 24 seater truck – Shangani and our tour leader Heini from Namibia and our driver Anthony from Kenya. We couldn't have asked for 2 better people to guide us ...
Roast Beef + Yorkshire Pud; Halloumi + Olives
... and it sold within the week so we booked our flights to Cyprus for Sunday 4th November. It was an emotional farewell in Huddersfield with Andrew and Alexandra, but I reminded myself that they would be spending Christmas with us so we would be seeing them ...
5 days to go . . .
Hi all, Jim and I thought it would be good to test out our blog and write a short 'before' post prior to our big depart. Tomorrow will be our last day at work and then it is time to cut down the two massive piles of clothes on my bed that I think I can ...
Howzat
HUDDERSFIELD / CLAYTON WEST - DAY 15 We got a good start this morning with a solid walk to another section of the public walkway Trans Pennine Trail - around nearby Kirburton and picked up a couple of sandwiches at the tail. Nearby claybird shooting ...
Golcar
... the field directions at all and it was tucked away behind cluster of houses and shops on the side hills of west huddersfield. So arrived during first over. Sunny but blustery day and pitch pretty spongy. Supporters enthusiasm waned as wickets fell too ...
Huddersfield Narrow
Filled up with water in order to have as much weight in front of boat to keep prop as high as poss and off we went through the little tunnel and into first lock onto the narrow. Both on boat as no access by foot to next lock. BIG ...
Round the World - and we're off
Tuesday 8th March Up at 4am to get my taxi to Manchester airport for my flight to Rio de Janeiro via Heathrow. Arrived at my hotel in a very hot & humid Rio at mid-night local time, after being up for 23 hours. Despite it being the last night of the ...
Final thoughts and Tetley's tea!
We landed at Manchester Airport to a crystal clear sunny sky and a hard white frost on the ground. It was nice to land in the sun but it was bloody freezing! So incredible really that only 32 hours before we have been stood in central Melbourne in 30 ...
Step 27 - Swim Across the Atlantic Ocean
... at all ethnic. The girl I was talking with was of Iranian descent, they stopped her for nearly 20 mins. 4th: Drove to Huddersfield. Made breakfast. Took longest nap of life in the Princess Room (felt like I was 5) 5th: Woke up, tea time. 6th: ...
Project BBB - the planning
Hi all, this is still a project in the planning ! Am sort of er..... lying to you all at mo, hate it. Yep, am going to resign hopefully next few weeks - when you hear the why's and wherefore's hopefully you'll be ...
We have reached normality...
... detail of my life. They had to call Neil and make sure I wasn't lying. I passed the test it seems. We drove back to Huddersfield and unpacked a few things and walked into town. We bought a sim card for my phone and then walked back to Neil's flat. We ...
One Day To Go...
"All my bags are packed, Im ready to go I'm sitting here outside your door La la la la la, la la, la la Cos I'm leaving on a jet plane Don't know when I'll be back again (July 3rd)" So, I've packed my sensual rucksack, for the ladies. It ...
Pre trip
Being looked after by my mum in preparation for setting off down to London on Wednesday and flying to Delhi on ...
Pennine Trail
KILBURTON - YORKSHIRE DAY 13 0800 We managed to surface in time for the travellers trap of another cooked breakfast. As we had a few hours before driving to Leeds we decided on a local trek which took in part of the Trans Pennine Trail - we didnt get ...
On the road, again
... - down to that London to meet up with Benny & anyone else who turns up. After getting the coach down from Huddersfield (via Mirfield, Dewsbury, Meadowhall, Sheffield, Chesterfield & Milton Keynes!!) I dumped my stuff at the YHA St.Paul's (just a ...
Claire's College
While on our road trip, I asked to see where Claire went to University. There really was nothing here outside of the University, but I enjoyed seeing it. I would like to show Claire where I attended college someday. There are a lot of ...
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