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Staffordshire Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Eggs..
This is a top pick! Spent two hours in a mountaineering shop today learning the complex intricacies of how to assemble, load, compress, detach, re-attach, un-compress, adjust, re-load and climb into my new backpack. Yes - the time is getting closer now. I'm just glad I ...
A Bit 'O' Background!
This is a top pick! I've been on about seeing the world for years. More importantly though, I've been 'itching' to do it for years. When I sit and think about it - if I hadn't have climbed Mt Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) in 2001, I really don't think I'd have had the same drive ...
Goodbye England
This is a top pick! It always hits me so late - the fact that I am leaving. The packing was done so far in advance (for once) that I had plenty of time to walk around the house saying goodbye to everything. Mum had already left for her tour to Ireland and my sister had ...
My family and other animals
This is a top pick! 'Shall we do something today?' "Well it is a Bank Holiday!" 'How about Gentleshaw Bird Sanctuary?' "Why not. Dad get your coat, we're going out!" A family outing! ***** Gentleshaw Bird Sanctuary is a small place fairly near our home. It ...
Bored in the Midlands
This is a top pick! Really, being in bed usually suits me fine, but not today, and not yesterday, and not for the next few weeks. Now I am awake enough to move, that's exactly what I'd like to do. It's amazing how much we use that connective tissue between the top and ...
The best rides are the ones that go upside down!
This is a top pick! So - I decided to do it. Everything I own is is currently in the transitional phase of being either sold, stored or buried and then I'm going. I have condensed my whole existence to the size of a small backpack (note to self - get your pack!) To ...
Home, Sweet Home!
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Setting off to Berkeley
This is a top pick! At 1:20am, mum, dad and I gathered my things (one average backpack, and one small daysack) and walked down the road to wait for the National Distress (Express) bus to London Heathrow. And so began my adventure. It arrived late of course, and we proceeded ...
Leaflets for Democracy!
This is a top pick! On May 5th, Britain takes to the polls to elect local officials..... which means it is leaflet delivering time in the village. Mum is running for council again, dad is not - which cuts the constituency in half. However, running for election still ...
Maybe tomorrow I'll want to settle down
This is a top pick! There are some things which seem to happen when I am about to leave. I have begun to regard them as a signal of change. The first is that a spider dies. I don't particularly like spiders that run fast, but I do praise their ability to mop up the flies ...
Aotearoa - The Land of the Long White Cloud...
This is a top pick! Well, two weeks today I'll be flying from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Denpasar in Bali, Indonesia as part of my triple-legged journey from London Heathrow to Auckland, New Zealand. I figured that as I'm not in any 'rush' - I may as well spend two ...
The Time of my Life...
This is a top pick! ... the very beginning, in Staffordshire, England. ...
Welcome!
This is a top pick! Well I hope you're sitting comfortably... Firstly, thanks for taking the time to at least click 'Enter Travelogue' with your mouse. I've gotta say this whole online diary, journal, well actually 'Travelogue' thing is really quite exciting. I was ...
Upright, no longer uptight!
This is a top pick! Finally out of bed. A quick stagger around the garden, a quick ride in the new car, a quick slide to exhaustion. The world seems to be happening in an easy plane all of it's own. Damn, where's those ...
Brewood
Friday 17th 4 miles 1 lock Why is it that approx half of the boaters out at the moment do not slow down past moored boats? We always do. Most hire boaters seem to. BW boats - some do, some don't. I look at the people at the helm of boats whizzing past us ...
Home Sweet Home
You will be glad to know we made it back at last. The people in Muscat stuck to their word and we were put on, incredibly, a 30% full plane back to Heathrow. It took us 2 days to make the journey but we were both just glad to be back in time for ...
Well here we go......!
Okay...here goes! We are finally leaving for Heathrow in the early hours of tomorrow morning, and to be honest I can't describe what is going through my mind, or what Dan is thinking. We have been building up to this moment for the last few months ...
Another fine day.
Sunday 10th 4 miles Often, our walk to church on a Sunday can be as long as my walk to find a newspaper but at least we have foreknowledge of where the churches are. The one we selected for today was supposed to be a mile from our mooring. ...
I don't believe it!
Sunday 3rd Went to St Michael's church this morning which sported union flags obviously made by the children some time earlier in the week. The flowers decorating the church had a red, white and blue theme - just like St Stephens in Ambridge, and ...
On our way home.
After a final thorough clean of the inside of the van, we left St Mabyn at about midday. Our journey back was almost a complete reversal of our journey down. Rather than taking the M5 route home, we travelled back via Dorset as we needed to stop off at ...
Stafford and Manchester England
... guess Manchester, rain, cold, sums it all up, but I had to agree they looked miserable – must have been Manchester United supporters. It was wonderful running around the outside of the City of Manchester Stadium the home ground of the mighty ...
Touring with Peter and Maureen
Sawadee krab Whilst in Stafford they started the summer walking tours – so in between down pours of torrential monsoon rain we skipped through the township of Stafford as guests of the historical (that's historical not hysterical) society. Our ...
Decisions, decisions
Thursday 16th 9 miles 1 very short tunnel Yesterday was a complete washout as far as the weather goes. We started the day undecided about what to do and when it began to rain we decided to stay put. Good decision. It rained the whole day and was also ...
On the road again
Wednesday. Not a good start to the day as it is a bit cloudy and cold. Packed up the van and got on the road in 60 minutes. That is from getting out of bed to putting the car in Drive. Not bad going. An uneventful drive up to the new ...
Homeward bound... and departing again!
Its certainly been a hectic two weeks, after camping in France we took the costal road back to the ferry crossing. It was strange seeing the places we had visited on the start of our adventure, remembering how excited and scared we were last time we were ...
On the move again
Saturday 9th 2 miles 1 lock Having just left 48 hour moorings that we have been on for about 60 hours, it was good to be on the move again. Haven't come far though. We were on a funny stretch of canal. At this point, the Macclesfield canal is about 15 ...
I still don't believe it.
Miles 8 Locks 6 The day started cloudy and threatening rain but actually held off until about 30 minutes after we moored. Before we left Barlaston we saw our two single handers go by and several minutes later another boat went past. We left about 20 ...
Gailey on our way
Monday 20th - Acton Trussell - Staffordshire 9 miles 10 locks Started off today with a slow meander along the twisty course of the Staffs and Worcs to Gailey which was heaving. There is approx one lock every mile along the following stretch and we ...