Thistle Aberdeen Airport Hotel

... for a week or two would be fun, but who would really benefit from it? So I decided to use the time I have to better the world community and do some volunteer work. That sounds exceptionally cheesy, but I would much rather be helping out the long-term development in a country I have significant interest in than just frolick on a beach drinking way too much alcohol.<br><br>I had researched some volunteer gigs previously, just for loose ideas for ...

... a crapload of work. And I'm also trying to find one of those "job" things so I can get some extra £ for travelling purposes. So no real time for immediate fun, grrr. But I'm hoping at some point I'll be able to do a bit of mountaineering, and also planning on heading down to Glasgow and Edinburgh sometime. There's a couple other Travelpodians scattered around somewhere too, but I think it's ...

Well I have finally begun my journey!!! It seemed like it would never actually happen, but as I boarded that plane reality began to sink in....As we all know, i have no idea when Ill be home, where ill go next, what Ill see or who Ill be spending time with....which makes it so much more exciting for me. Now i have only been here for half a day and have yet to settle, but once that ...

Tomorrow I'm catching the a 2pm flight out to Heathrow, a couple of hours of transit and off to Istanbul...arriving just after 11pm. There's no public transport other than taxis and its probably gonna be expensive to Sultanahmet where I'm staying. But the flight's cheap so can't complain really. <br><br>For the past few days I've been packing and repacking, readjusting my inventory each time, trying to strike a balance between travelling light and having the ...

... I'll be back in Tucson by 8:35 p.m. I've drawn some conclusions from my trip to Scotland. First, it's not as foreign as I expected. Once you get over the accent and the fact that they drive on the other side of the road here, it's easy to forget that you're abroad. The day-to-day life seems very similar to that in any town of a similar size in the U.S.<br><br>Even so, there are a few things I've liked about Aberdeen ...

... exciting, but, as they say, when in Rome . . .<br><br>Things picked up as the evening wore on, and I ended my night at Cheerz, Aberdeen's gay bar and club. I took in a drag queen contest over a pint of Foster's, and even joined a conga line around the block. I called it a night after they played The Proclaimers' "500 Miles," as what evening is not complete at that point?

... weapons) from the Napoleonic Wars to modern day - spanning some 200 years of history. Our dinner table was set with regimental silver from India, and dinner was a special treat of prime rib and Yorkshire pudding. With dessert there were more bagpipes, port, and of course ... scotch. They really went all out for us. It was a lot of fun; a cracking good time!

... music with the youth who's going up top0 oaberdeen to visit his parents. He studies music in college. I get into the discussion, and learn the history of steel bands from Msd Trinidazd who actively organizes steel bands in LOndon's carnival. Seems like they began using oil drums to play on, and thats how it began. Now they have drums specially fitted to get different tones. This same lady also was engaged in sketching the countryside threo the window, quietly ...

... in Aberdeen was just perfect. Cloudless blue sky, biting cold that numbed any exposed skin and brilliant sunshine which made the granite buildings sparkle. There was ice on the pavements most mornings so the walk into town was always a tad treacherous. Aberdeen has to be one of the most aesthetically pleasing cities I've seen so far. Referred to as 'The Granite City' (because so many of the buildings are made from granite, d'uh) most of the architecture appears ...

... s dad's in North Yorkshire and realised just how expensive and uncomfortable U.K travel is. We spent the next few months sleeping here and there with friends and relatives until we finally moved back into our flat in April (yeehah!!!). It's hard to tell you how hard it was adjusting to being back, everyone said it would be hard and we just thought yeah, yeah we know, but we hadn't a clue. Much harder than going away is coming back and ...