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At the airport, we made our way to the British Airways desk to drop our main backpacks off, and I greeted the gentleman behind the counter with a friendly "ohio gozaimasu." He seemed to take an eternity to look at our passports, and was busy pressing ...
The Great Ocean Road: Warning, Very Wet
Another day, another bus tour! This time only eight of us setting out from Melbourne and only three of us really speak English; there's an Austrian couple, an Indonesian couple, a middle-aged Finnish man, a middle-aged Australian woman on the way to ...
London
I met Rick by the London Eye. It was a drizzly, damp, gloomy day. Normal London weather, I suppose, but not exactly promising sweeping vistas of the skyline. Ah well, we boarded our capsule and were bourne up towards the sky. Water droplets stuck to the ...
A new chapter.
So I left you and left my travel blog in March! I was in Agra India and had about of month traveling left in me. So where am i now and why has it taken me 7 months to get back on this web site? First i will start with where i left off. We ...
Weird
Friday we land and go to Barnet for the first time to see unborn Nephew, Ben (and James and Liz). Saturday we realise we don't have a visa for Vietnam and we kind of need one. Shit. Sunday we have lots of family and friends over and they are ...
Returning to old haunts- and some good new ones
I caught the train to Bristol for the weekend. Jacqui greeted me at the station, we picked up some proper West Country doorstep sandwiches and then went to Jacqui's place to eat them, whilst resisting Rosie the beagle's most endearing efforts to look ...
We're in london still..
Alright? Hope everyone hasn't given up on the blog but not much to report again. Our last few days in London went quite quickly. We visited the National Gallery a few times for the free tours they offer. There was a great selection of paintings ...
Up up and away............
Hello to everyone again. Paul and Ciara are back on their travels again. Hope you all missed our online updates. We left Belfast at 8.10am on an easyjet flight to Luton on 3rd September. As we didn't need to fly out of London Heathrow until 9.30 pm ...
Resting at Tara, and preparations for my next trip
I plan on stopping at the Tara Centre for a few weeks to meditate, work on my spiritual journey, buddhism and I have started planning my next trip. Looks like its off to the Alps Around Decemebr, or January for ski mountaineering with ...
Bon Voyage! Heathrow - day 1
So, the day had finally arrived. In the preceding few days, both Lauren and Ross were still frantically trying to tie-up loose ends in readiness for their flight of freedom. For example, on a day that should have been for quiet time ...
London City
London, a capital of Great Britain, is a place full of magical, details and excitement! I just love it! London Eye The London Eye is one of the largest observation wheels in the world. It stands 135 metres (443 feet) high on the western end of ...
Kings, Queens and Double Decker Buses
Visit Klenske, Ink. It may have took us a bit longer to get here then expected, but we made it, just the next day. We flew out of Dubuque fine, but once we boarded our plane in Chicago, and sat there on the runway for two hours, we were told that it ...
Long Flight to London
Nothing much to write about today. Narita airport is around 90 minutes from Shinjuku station so by the time you add in the train from our hotel to Shinjuku time to get tickets etc, we had to get up at 6:30am for our flight at noon! The flight was ...
Flat's starting to look empty.... (Liz)
So we seem to be getting there. The flat is efficiently almost empty with a whole 2.5 weeks until we leave.... It's good from an organisational perspective although quite depressing that I have no good clothes to wear until then!! Still have 3 Muse ...
Introduction
This travelogue will be the home to my upcoming journey around the world with my pal Vinny. The idea, in it's simplest form, is to go once around the globe without resorting to air travel. Along the way, we plan to watch England beat Brazil in the ...
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
"You know why they put oxygen masks on planes? Oxygen gets you high. In a catastrophic emergency, you're taking giant panicked breaths. Suddenly you become euphoric, docile. You accept your fate. It's all right here. Emergency water landing - 600 miles ...
Back to Blighty and Bristol beckons
And so we retuned to Blighty*. We arrived at Heathrow airport in glorious sunshine, having flown up the Thames and circled over London for a while, easily identifying the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, London Bridge, the Olympic grounds. It was ...
Fun and Frustration in England Lake District
So, we set off to do something we'd been anticipating for quite a while. We visited a national park in England called the 'Lakes District’, which often spoken of by our English friends as a beautiful place to go, a ‘must visit’ in ...
Beers of the World
A little project during our travels was to sample the beers (and ciders) of the world. Here's some photos of those we loved and loathed, enjoyed and endured. Some photos were just too fuzzy to include. I wonder why?!*$!! Most notable were: ...
For inquisitive minds
Here are our answers to some of the many questions we've been asked since our return to the UK – many 'best of' / 'worst of' questions, some techie kit questions, some just downright cheeky! It's been fun reflecting back over our travels, so thank ...
The Clock In San Dimas
It's weird, you know. Less than three weeks to go before we set off on a journey that could take years. The amount of things there are to do is astounding. I've got to somehow move out of my flat, store my possessions I don't want to throw away at my ...
Week One in Merry Old England
Already we have been in Merry Old England for a whole week. Time flies when you are eating fish and chips on a daily basis. We have been happily ensconced in the little village known as "Old", completely spared from the torrents of rain ...
Haggis, Whisky and Nessie... it must be Scotland!
Our 7th day saw us finally make it into Scotland. I absolutely loved Scotland last time I was here and I was hoping that I would still feel the same this time around. We headed into Glasgow (my least favourite place last time) and after spending a few ...
Knowle to Mexico City
And so it all begins, we left Knowle behind at 8.00AM, 1 hour later than planned due to 3 hours sleep the night before! It was a nervous jounrney down the M40 through thick fog, thanks to Rog for the lift. We bought the last few things we needed from ...
Ready to depart!
Getting ready to leave...... Only a few things to get sorted before jetting off now. Have 4 weeks left to go (A month today!!) Will be booking flights tonight, and other than selling my car, boxing up my things and getting on the first flight ...
Save the Welsh (Snowdonia and Brecon Beacons)
With a few extra days before Hamlin needed to fly back to Belgium, we made the decision to fill the time by seeing a little of Wales. It would only be a day and half, so little being the operative word. Leaving Liverpool, we crossed over the border ...
Why Not Fly?
It's not going to be cheap to do it this way round. Especially when you consider that a round the world flight can be as cheap as £650 these days. And it's not, as many people suspect, that we're scared of flying. Quite the opposite. In fact, I get ...
