Sunderland, United Kingdom Travel Blogs

It's good to be back home
Aug 30, 2005 (2 photos)

... Wolverhampton with my uncle and cousins visiting. Then we headed to V2005 festival for the weekend, and then it was up to Sunderland to visit Graham's family. As I write this, we are recovering from the first of our engagement parties last night. A very ...

The Stadium of Light
Sep 30, 2006 (15 photos)

... (division below the Premier League). Was a pretty impressive stadium, but still no Emirates stadium. The match was entertaining, Sunderland dominating the first half, but failing to score. They pinched a goal just after the hour mark, but then sat back on ...

From the Irish Sea to the North Sea On Two Wheels
Dec 11, 2005 (10 photos)

... to Whitehaven, one of two official C2C starting points, the other being Workington. The C2C also has two official finishing points, Sunderland and Newcastle. I was hoping to end in the latter, but, as I'll tell you later, I didn't...sort of. Arrived ...

Sunderland, Gises's
May 2, 2008

Llegamos a sunderland hiper tempranitoooo! tomamos desayuno, dormimos un par de horitas y a Durham los pasajes! =)

Sunderland, Chilean Party!
May 4, 2008

Chilean party at gise's!

Back in the North East
Aug 20, 2008 (3 photos)

On Monday 18th Aug, my parents very kindly drove us up to Sunderland with a car and trailer full of stuff to get packed along with all our possessions in my inlaws loft to get shipped across to New Zealand. We arrived at the Ellwood's house late ...

Last couple of days in the North East
Aug 26, 2008 (24 photos)

On the Sunday, the weather was really nice, so we decided to go to Beamish Musuem, which is an open air museum depiciting life in the North East in the 1913s. To be honest, I wasn't really in the mood for history, but we went along anyway, and it was a ...

Only 9 days left to go
Aug 4, 2007

It's only 9 days left until we leave, and suddenly things have got a bit hectic! Last week we emailed recruitment agencies in New Zealand to advise them of our impending arrival. So far the responses have been very positive, and a few meetings have been ...

Back to reality!
Sep 24, 2006 (2 photos)

... spending almost 3 weeks in America, we had a day back at my parents house, before loading up the car, and heading up to Sunderland, for the start of our married life together. Thanks to Donna, for making the house look so welcoming when we arrived!

the week before
Jun 9, 2008

Today has been pretty guddy.still in sunderland but it's been a hot one today.spent the day down at seaburn beach, playing in the rock pools and walking along the beach.. the next few days is about packing,packing,packing for the big trip..how stressful is ...

Flights are booked - one way only!
Mar 17, 2007

Ever since we came back from a year spent travelling in 2005, we've been thinking about moving permanently to New Zealand. Having finally decided on a departure month of August, we applied for Working Holiday Visas in February. Once these came through, we ...

Graham's 30th Birthday
Aug 22, 2008 (40 photos)

... . We went to Lucianos Restaurant in Sunderland. We had meant to meet up with people beforehand in the pub, but because Sunderland has two Wetherspoons pubs it caused some confusion as to where everyone was meeting! The meal was delicious, we had pre- ...