Newport, United Kingdom Travel Blogs

Hogmanay
Jan 1, 2006 (3 photos)

... ate short bread, Haggis and of course drunk Whiskey. The combination of which all proved alittle too much for us at times! Newport is a small town, perfect for day tripping so we made the most of it through visiting Stirling, Edinburgh, Saint Andrews, ...

Preparation
Feb 19, 2006

Hi All Well its 9 Days until I fly out to New Zealand, so I thought i'd let you know how the plans are going. I've pretty much decided that its impossible to try and plan every day of my journey. My flight leaves London Heathrow on the 28th February ...

The start!
Dec 12, 2006

Well my journey starts in Newport, Isle of Wight   It was just another day on Monday 4th December, when suddenly, out of no where... The Bear Bandit appeared!! He took me away from my home, and my family and held me hostage! Fortunately, on ...

The calm before the storm
Apr 14, 2008

We've started our travel's off by visiting family in Kent, Cornwall and ended our family tour in Wales where we plan to leave for Heathrow at 06:30 on 16th April.

The Pee Pot
Jul 12, 2008 (2 photos)

... the passport office, he told me in his Welsh lilt that he was '...getting a bit fed up with this English rain...'. 4 hours in Newport in heavy rain is not fun. I got home with soaking wet trainers, but at least I now have a jumbo sized brand new ...

UK Adventure, Go!
Aug 17, 2008

... internet so I can't make this as lengthy as I would like. Today I visited some Roman ruins and saw some castles here in Newport, Wales and tomorrow I head out on a train to Edinburgh, Scotland for a few days. There is a lot to reflect upon that has ...

Goodbye UK!
Nov 12, 2008 (8 photos)

So the big day has finally come where we wave goodbye to the families and cold, wet Wales! We're really excited about our travels but also very nervous! We're going to miss the people but not the place... we think! We don't really know ...

jet lag
Mar 5, 2007

... last night to combat the jet lag, but was still wide awake at 5am this morning :(. Want to go and see the new Newport foot bridge later- very exciting!!! My mum had brought down all the packages I posted home over the last 6 months- God, I ...

Just an update
Oct 2, 2005

Hey everyone! Sorry its been a while since I have last wrote in my travel blog, but nothing really new has happened. I was suppose to go away this weekend to a cool surfer town in England called Nookie, but I didn't have the funds to go. As most of you ...

Merry Christmas Everyone!
Dec 20, 2005

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I am very sad I can't be home for christmas this year, I will be thinking of everyone! I will be working lots this week, the hotel is very busy. I work christmas eve day, christmas day as well as new years eve and new ...

photo test
Jul 16, 2006 (1 photos)

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5 Weeks left!!
May 12, 2006

Hey Everyone, 5 weeks left in the UK for me! Its going by very quickly. I have only 2 1/2 weeks left of work. Now that we have our tickets, I just want to go already! Jon and I are really excited. Everyone at work is always asking about what are plans are ...

Grand union3
Jun 18, 2009

Still on the M1 of canals??

Just another update
Mar 5, 2006

Hey guys! Just thought I would write to give an update on my life here. Hmmmm, what's new? I can't believe that I have been gone for almost 10 months now!! That just boggles my mind! Home feels like just a distant thought, I feel like I have been here ...

Back from holland again!
Jan 18, 2006 (5 photos)

Hello people! Sorry it took so long to write this month, I have been a busy girl. I will start with my trip to Amsterdam. Jon and I flew to Amsterdam from Bristol airport and Papa and Sylvain met us outside the train station there. They finally got to ...

Living in Celtic Manor
Jul 12, 2005

... year. I live in a town called Newport, which is 15 mins by train from Cardiff (the capital of Wales), and 3 1/2 hours from London. Newport is a small town, it is a bit of a rough town, lots of teenage pregancies, and I often see 10 year olds smoking...so ...

Celtic Manor is booming!
Aug 28, 2005

What a crazy couple of weeks at work let me tell you! We have the all star Cup golf tournament today and tomorrow. Its all types of famous actors, golfers, singers etc from Usa and Europe. The tournament is USA VS Europe, and they had a 550 person gala ...

Finally here at Celtic Manor!
Jun 6, 2005

... a jail, but with parties! I already went out partying the first night here. I went to a pub, then a club afterwards in Newport with people from here. Right now I am sharing a room with 6 girls temperaily until a group of staff leave (green keepers) that ...

Oh Newport!
Nov 30, 2005

Hey guys! Well, its back to reality after a nice long weekend in London. I have been living in my house for about 3 weeks and its falling apart. We had our first snow fall last week, and all our running water stopped!! Can you believe it! Every bit of it ...

Happy New Year!
Dec 31, 2005

Hey everyone Happy New Year! Oh what will 2006 hold for us? 2005 was quite the big one for me let me tell you! Finish school, tons of travel, meet the man of my dreams, and much more...what more could I want? Tonight I have to work until 4am, but the good ...

The news
Mar 26, 2006

Hey everyone, If you haven't heard already, yes I have gotten engaged! Jon is offically my fiance. I love it. We are very happy together, and thanks for all the congradulations e-mails. Means a lot to me. It's a strange thought that only my dad and ...

I'm coming home!!
Apr 16, 2006

Hello everyone! June 17 I will be flying home with Finacee Jonathan Bowler from London Gatwick on Air Transat. So I probably won't arrive until June 18th in Vancouver. Get the Canadian flags out for my arrival..haha. Sorry I haven't written anyone lately, ...

Ready for Take Off
May 20, 2009 (3 photos)

 Well, I officially leave the UK in 4 days time and I've finally got around to packing.  All my clothes, toiletries, items of Welsh memorabilia, food items I can't last without (Marmite and Cadbury's chocolate) have been rolled up as ...

Touring South Wales - Castles and Pubs!!
Mar 23, 2003

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Just testing.
Feb 10, 2006

This is just a test really to see how this thing works. Hopefully we should be keeping this fairly up to date but who knows. I'm not sure how easy it will be to update and upload pics and stuff. I'm pretty sure the Internet connections will be poor in ...

Isle of Wight Festival 2006
Jun 11, 2006 (7 photos)

... the late 60s and went for a few years, then was resurrected a few years ago - it was held in a massive park area near Newport, one of the larger towns in the Isle of Wight. Fantastic weather, good music, and a really nice chilled out atmosphere, and even ...

Rain and a Bath, England that is + Stonehenge
May 19, 2009 (9 photos)

 Well, the day started out with rain, what London is famous for.  We went to Hampton Palace, King Henry VIII's home to see his beautiful gardens, but it is hard to enjoy them in the pouring down rain.  We did learn some interesting things ...

Fri 24/1/03 was wakened by the sleeping car ...
Jan 30, 2003 (2 photos)

... seemed hard to believe that the weak red thing in the sky was the same object that produced such heat in the afternoons just a couple of days previously. Arrived in Newport at 1910 - 15 minutes late, although it was really a day late, after my 4 week trip.

Wales
Mar 23, 2008

Back to south Wales

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Jul 7, 2007

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