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Travel Blogs from Leeds, United Kingdom
Africa Trip Itinerary - By week
Plans for the first leg of the trip...(from the brochure) Weeks 1 & 2 - Our first day is spent in Cairo visiting the great Pyramids and Sphinx at Giza with our Egyptologist guide. The following morning we drive out of Cairo and head for the ...
Final preperations
Nearly ready to go! Leaving party was last weekend, it was so much fun, I will really miss my lovely friends. But everything else is now down to the final preperations... Not long to go now! Flights - Booked First hotel - Booked Car - Sold House - Let ...
Itinerary
The current plan of action! 26th October - Fly from Heathrow (England) to Cairo (Egypt) Make my way overland down to Cape Town SA, covering the following countries: Egypt Sudan Ethiopia Kenya Uganda Tanzania Mozambique Zimbabwe Botswana ...
Update
... future traveling. So, as not to bore you, I will recap quickly the last week of our little lives: 1-went to a football game Leeds-vs-Chelsey: good game, but they've cracked down a bit on the fans i.e. you can't really stand up and cheer unless there ...
History of Africa
... states of Liberia and Sierra Leone. Similiarly, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) recently intervened in the kingdom of Lesotho to protect a democratically elected govenment from impending military coup. On the whole, however, the ...
Packing for Overlanding...
Written by the same guy as a wry look at overlanding... Packing list for an Overland. You're not sure what to pack for your overland? How many T shirts, socks and undies? Don't want to look silly by bringing the wrong things/too much? The best ...
Castle Crazy
To finish the weekend off we went to visit Leeds Castle (third and final castle thank goodness!). The castle situated in a lake, was only accessible from a drawbridge. On the grounds there was a hedge lawn maze and a small grotto that kept us entertained ...
A Wry Look at Overlanding (Passengers view)
This was writen by a guy named Mark. I came across this when researching the trip... Hopefully give you an idea of what its all about... enjoy... You make the decision in a moment of weakness to consider going on an organised overland. How do you ...
Itinery
Vietnam Cambodia Laos Thailand Malaysia Singapore Australia New Zealand Chile Argentina Peru Bolivia ...
Finally set off!
After a nightmare getting visas in Edinburgh and drinking too much on an empty stomach in Leeds we're finally off! London here we come, to probably a worse hotel than any in India! Disclaimer: If you're having a crap day at work our following posts may or ...
Visiting Durand and Danny at Uni
... searching for kebaby! Settling for pizza we finally got home and to be honest thats all I can really remember. Stayed about 4days I think, Leeds is a really pretty town there's lots of big beautiful stone buildings and did I mention great ...
Our thoughts so far
Our prolonged stay in Leeds gave us the opportunity to give thought to our progress so far, in fact to carry out a PIR (Post Implementation Review for those of you who are not first direct trained). A colleague and good friend had asked (and ...
The night before
Whenever I go away there's a feeling I get the evening before I leave. As I'm packing my things into the case I start wishing I wasn't going anywhere at all, and I wish I could unpack the case, put the kettle on, and go back to my life of comfortable ...
Leeds and York, England
After the visit with my family, I ended up going to Leeds to visit a friend. Leeds was a very vibrant city with lots of great pubs, clubs and shops. I had a few big nights out there and had a great time. While recovering from the previous night we ...
Leeds General Infirmary
... it goes if you want a cheap train fare. it was a two hour journey and it was fine. nothing to report. i got into leeds just after 9 and decided to do some shopping, after all leeds shopping is it's only tourist attraction. i had planned to meet ...
hanging out with friends
... ın Wındsor (had a fabulous boat trıp and the best fısh and chıps wıth mushy peas - yum). I then headed to Wakefıeld (near Leeds) for my frıend Sarahs weddıng. It was a great tıme hangıng out wıth old frıends and new ones. One thıng that ...
Leeds
So I arrived in London on 19th July and caught the train up to Leeds. I liked it here and decided to make this my home for the next few months. This section is just a whole lot of random photos taken over the months I've been living here. Up till Jan ...
It's All South From Here
I'm suffering a bit of blog fatigue (hence the lack of an entry for Manchester, though I did do quite a bit there), so I'll throw up the happenings here in Leeds and in Manchester ...
Our first day
Well......We were having a coffee at Leeds/Bradford, David had just congratulated me on getting us so far, right place right time etc. ( I do have previous!) Then we heard the announcement ...The flight to Heathrow was cancelled!! Fog!!! There ...
Yet another day trip! since the trains to ...
Yet another day trip!... since the trains to Chester weren't very frequent, Michelle and I decided to do Leeds for the day. The weather was decent, nice and sunny at the start & then the infamous cloud cover moved in later in the day, but no rain. It ...
its a long long road, and its in the sky
After the airport making me empty 2 bags of items from my suitcase at Manchester airport, I finally boarded the plane for an uneventful journey down to London, luckily with my imac, my Vestax 06 mixer and my Sampler but not many clothes or anything ...
Leaving party no.1
Leaving party. My leaving party. And also Larry Masterflaps leaving party. I counted how many friends we both had though and I won. Yes, I ...
Off we go
We met as planned in the concourse of Leeds City station at 9:30am on Saturday. It was a substantial gathering. The wives of both main participants were present along with Cheesey's daughter and two charming granddaughters. The bikes were well loaded, ...
On my way to the North!
Driving up to the North to my grandmas on the M1, listened to Radio 1 the entire 2 hours, feel like I know the DJs personally! Stopped half way at a "Welcome Break" which is a exit off the freeway where you can use the restroom, eat, etc.. Got to Nonnas ...
STUCK IN THE UK
... and ready for a quick hop to NYC. Until I turned on the news. Terroist plans to attack planes, mostly flights to America from United Kingdom, and to major US cities. No thanks, especially no thanks when Im flying alone. So dad, Ian and I take the train ...
Leeds Fest 2011!
... . A few months back we booked tickets to the Leeds Festival, aka: the younger sibling of the famous Reading Festival. We chose Leeds over Reading for the simple fact that we wanted to visit Leeds and we guessed there might be a few less Aussies there ...