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Bristol Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Bristol, United Kingdom
Bristol
... has nothing much to offer, except that it's the gateway to interesting places around this area. The day I am leaving Bristol for Wales, I managed to tour the city a little bit in the morning before catching the bus. There's nothing much ...
That flesh-eating tropical fish!
It's been a while since we got back to UK, and it's only now that I am catching up on the blog, so my apologies. This first one is a flashback to Bora Bora, where you may remember I was attacked by a multicoloured reef fish. I sort of hoped I ...
What a difference a day makes...
Woke reasonably early, about 8am, to the discovery via Twitter that not only had The Waterboys decided to finally release the Fishermans Blues sessions, but that the core band that recorded it were getting back together. Quick text to my friend ...
Bristol, the best place in the UK
... a pas un weekend sans qu'il se passe quelque chose ici, une expo, un concert dans un pub, un festival, etc. L'emplacement de Bristol est également l'un de ses atouts, et ses environs nous ont gardé bien occupés pendant 3 ans. Je m’arrête la, ...
Aug 04, 2012
The Essential Impetus of Jimmy Galvin & System Ver
... to evaluate whether I would get where he was coming from or not. "Some say you are the natural born heirs of the Bristol music scene" I postulated, trying to make in-roads to his apparently labyrinthine world. "No", he replied with a sense of urgency, ...
Flight of fantasy (Bristol to Berlin)
We Arrived at bristol here is the airport: there is an air of excitement. ...
Itinerary (updated 22nd June)
Mon May 25 - arrive Johannesburg, stay at Lion Park Tue May 26 - Johannesburg Wed May 27 - Johannesburg Thurs May 28 - Blyde River Canyon (staying in Graskop) Fri May 29 - Kruger National Park (Skukuza camp) Sat May 30 - Swaziland ...
The start of an epic
... it begins. After a weekend on-call, a couple hours of sleep I set out from Swansea at 3:25am. A rather speedy run to Bristol; parking on a farm nearby; shuttle bus to the airport; whizzing through security; I find myself at the gate 2 hours after leaving ...
Visa Collection
... for the late running of this service due to the failure of a slow running goods train preceding us, we expect to arrive in Bristol Parkway some 15 minutes late, please take all your baggage with you, pole vault the gap between the train and the station ...
Getting Ready
Today Amy and I met after work and went to Nomad Travel on Park Street. Papa's got brand new bag!! I'm quite excited about this pack. I know it seems crazy to be in love with a travel bag, but it's been 16 years since I got my last travel pack at ...
Bristol, Bath and Stonehenge in a day!
Today Shane, Ryan and I hired a car and did a little road trip to Bristol, Bath and Stonehenge. First we went to Bristol where Ryan caught up with his cousin who suggested we have lunch at a pub in a floating barge called 'The Grain Barge'. After ...
London 2012 - Opening Ceremony
We went in to Bristol to watch the opening ceremony of the Olympics on the big screen Fab ...
Back story
Well... here we are. I've already been here over a month so I'm not sure where to start. I suppose the best thing is to try to go all the way back to the begining, continue on until the end and then stop, as they say. As best I can remember it anyway. ...
Bristol to visit the Evans Family
Dropped Mark at Stansted Airport for his 4 day trip to Turin and then borrowed his car to drive out to Bristol to visit Mary, Tim, Bryn & Charlie. We had lunch at a great old pub called the White Hart in Littleton-on-Severn. I had my first "Proper Sunday ...
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Day Eight
... the airline to do anything more than the bare essentials, equals cut the crap, equals quick departure. When we landed in Bristol it was, typically, grey and overcast. It really felt like being home. Taking the bus back to Temple Meads ...
Bristol
... and Frome. The city prospered for about a century in what some call the 'triangular' trade of rum, molasses and, um, slaves. Bristol suffered much damage during WWII, but has since been rebuilt. The night-life in Bristol is pretty good. I saw a few ...
Day 1 - going nowhere
Frustration and irony. A ski holiday messed up by snow. Wednesday was a day of disappointment. Snow at Bristol airport caused severe disruptions. Our flight at 855am was cancelled, before we even got to the airport. After booking ...
8 weeks to go...
Ok so everything's booked and all the necessaries are done aside from the Visas, no going back! I got my first set of jabs done on Friday and it was only really then when the nurse began counting the weeks until my departure date that the reality of it ...
End of the Biking Holiday
... and building the moat walk around the Great Tower. The resulting gardens were considered the equal of any other others in the kingdom at the time.Upon inheriting Raglan in 1628, Henry Somerset, then the 5th Earl of Worcester, continued to live a grand ...
Moving to Bristol
... their canal boat in Hilperton, Trowbridge and some of my time with Mike in Stoke Gifford. I had apprehensions about moving to Bristol. I'd always thought of myself as a country girl and never really expected to enjoy living in a City. ...
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Hurley Conference in Bristol, afternoon in Bath
this past weekend i went to bristol to attend a conference at the university of bristol held in memory of Susan Hurley, a philosopher who died of cancer in 2007. over the last while hurley had been contributing to theories of embodiment and so the ...
Moving too fast
Well its now less than 4 days until I fly, things are moving very fast now and I have more checklists than a NASA space mission. Still have not packed and still things to sort out. Getting a full on mix of emotions at the moment. The thought of not ...
What happened to Sunday?
At 12:45 me and my family left in our hire car with all our luggage, we were heading to Heathrow airport. After an our and a half drive we arrived far to early, we couldn't check into our airline yet because boarding was many hours later so we decided to ...