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United Kingdom Slideshow
Travel Blogs from United Kingdom
The Next Adventure Begins
This is a top pick! We've come a long way since our first post on Travelpod and, having stayed in 107 different beds during our Big Trip 2010/11, you would think we might be a bit fed up with guest houses? But no! In fact, we decided to turn things on their head a little ...
Goodbye Mayhem at Clapham Junction
This is a top pick! Its time to say bye to friends and what better way to do it than to get drunk on a Sunday morning. If some of you haven't heard of Church, its a converted theater turned into a nightclub that runs through church hours hence the name, with booze, ...
A day of travels
This is a top pick! What to say. First we headed out to New York on the good old AA. The usual rituals, packing the luggage and weighing them to get them as close to 23KG as we can (or a bit over). In New York we camped at the BA lounge for a couple of hours before we ...
Bbbbbbrewery
This is a top pick! A grey drizzly day made it very difficult to drag ourselves out of the tent and do anything. I finally roused Brian with the lure of beer - works every time! Back towards the Hook Norton Brewery which we couldn’t get into on Sunday. ...
RIP
This is a top pick! A great tragedy befell the Clowes household today with the loss of a dear member. Black Gold, the coffee press, passed away at 7:17 on the morning of August 27th, 2009. Blacky, was dearly loved by all for his ability to perk up those around ...
London, St. Neots and Cambridge and London and....
This is a top pick! The last 3 weeks of our stay in England, were both surreal, exciting, hard work, drunken, expensive and ultimately sad and happy all the same time. Weekdays were spent working hard painting and decorating in London, and although hard, is very satisfying ...
A Holiday Within a Holiday
This is a top pick! "I have long feared that the sins of my past will come back to visit me... And the cost is more than I can bear" -- The Patriot "You know what? I've never done the right thing in my life - not once.... That takes skill" -- The Long Kiss ...
The Bill: £23,616.35
This is a top pick! How much does it cost for a husband and wife to travel round the world for a year? Lots of people ask us, so click on the photo above to see the breakdown of our expenses *We spent our up-front dollars cash and travellers cheques usually in countries ...
Stress!!!
This is a top pick! Not the most exciting of posts this one, and touch wood they will get better as my journey progresses!!! I set off on my travels tomorrow and today has been sooooo stressful...visitors, closed railway lines, bank machine problems, queues, traffic ...
a tale of four sisters
This is a top pick! Unexpectedly an opportunity came up for us four sisters to get together. We decided to go for it and without the usual planning and deliberation a cottage was booked in Chilham, Kent, conveniently near Folkstone where the shuttle arrives. A small ...
Only a couple of days to go...
This is a top pick! I sold my car today. Cutting it fine I know, but this seems to be the current theme for my preparations. My last travel vaccination was yesterday and my travel insurance policy was delivered the day before. I'll probably still be packing the day I ...
You know you are back in England when...
This is a top pick! You know you are back in England when... ...you arrive at Heathrow late at night, looking forward to watch the rerun of England versus Sweden in the World Cup on BBC, but decide not to bother since 22 football nutters (and a referee, and Beckenbauer ...
Dum Dum Da Dum
This is a top pick! After a week for me with my brother in St. Neots, seeing some old pals, bumming around and playing x-box and Kate slaving away painting and decorating down in London. I trained it down to London, and Kate and me got a lift with Luke the night before the ...
The Build Up
This is a top pick! Well here it is.....our travel blog for our upcoming round the world trip. This is very much a work in progress and will hopefully evolve and grow as we go around the world. At the minute we are totally absorbed in moving house. This weekend ...
Finding it hard to concentrate on work.....
This is a top pick! It's 3 and a half weeks until i finish work and 6 and a half weeks until Kevin and I leave the UK for a mammoth 15 months. Surprisingly i'm finding it hard to concentrate on my work when there is a considerable amount to sort out! Most recently it ...
You're killing me...
This is a top pick! There should be a law against the selling of 1 euro shots of tequila. A full on fucking ban. Indeed, some towns and cities may have instituted this sensible rule. The town of Bamburg, where we currently collectively nurse a killer hangover, does not. ...
Hogmanay for New Years (Edinburgh)
This is a top pick! A little under a week later I was on a tour bus heading back to Edinburgh for Hogmanay. I was on a tour with the majority of my housemates and with others meeting us up there. The bus ride up was a crazy party. It was mostly Australian and New Zealanders ...
Last Preparations
This is a top pick! As I set my Auto-office finally to away- the reality of the next 5-6 months finally sets in. We've got a little in the way of packing to do today and to pick up the last few items to fill our bags, but we are pretty much there. I've realised that I am ...
Home again
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Old York, Old York
This is a top pick! Cycled into town early this am along a myriad of cycle paths. A town so cycle friendly, there are more signs guiding you along cycle ways than there are street signs! At one point in the city there were more non-motorized vehicles on the road ...
The Beginning
This is a top pick! It's the night before we set off on our adventure to East Asia and we can’t believe it has come round so quickly! It has taken several months of planning and lots of last minute trips to Go Outdoors. We have said goodbye to friends and family and ...
Up Up and Awayski
This is a top pick! By the time you read this we will be airborne, and on our way to St Petersberg (the Venice of the north) the starting point for the first few days of our yearlong adventure. We then plan to take the overnight train to Moscow and it's from there that ...
London, GB
This is a top pick! As Monday May 1st was a bank holiday, Des, my brother Lou, and his partner Lynn and I spent the day at Windsor Castle along with every other tourist in England. I particularly enjoyed Queen Mary's Doll's House and The Armoury. St George's Chaple was ...
Bye Bye Blighty
This is a top pick! So, here we are at last, Packed and ready to go, well almost. Just A few weeks to go and still so much to do, finishing research, checking on Visa applications,and buying those 'must have' gadgets ... the self inflating, solar powered, light weight, ...
Fringing
This is a top pick! Last year when Brain first thought of coming to Scotland to do a little work experience at the forge we looked into the cost of accommodations and nearly fainted. The time of year that we were looking happened to coincide with the Fringe Festival ...
Dumfries and out
This is a top pick! We've left behind the Isle of Mann, our friends, my family and our jobs. The goodbye party was absolutely perfect and it was lovely to have (almost) everyone together for one final piss-up! We had a great meal with the folks from work and the next night ...
Happy 80th Birthday Mum
This is a top pick! Mum is 80 today so we'll be having a toast to her big day with our dinner tonight. 'Happy Birthday Mum, have a wonderful day with lots of family and friends around, and a bit of bright weather too. We're sorry we can't be there with you and ...