Copper Beeches Hotel Basingstoke

... to Terminal 5. Thanks Steve, sod the bus pass. <br><br>So we arrive early at the cavern that is the new Terminal 5 (I saw T5 for the first time 12 months ago collecting for Children in Need. If you happen to be there this Friday, look out for the Rotary guys and give generously to this worthwhile charity). <br><br>We are very early: four and a half hours before the flight is due; an hour and a half before check in. So what? A coffee in Capprichio&#8217;s, a ...

<br><br><br>"Whatever can go wrong at the most inopportune moment, will" Sod's law<br><br>All I had to do today was to get the laptop ready for travel: clear out old files to make space for photos, transfer my planning files with all the hotel, travel and other necessary detail; and check in.<br><br>First the laptop email chose ...

"We're leavinghome" Beatles<br><br>Leaving thehouse for three months over winter can be a bit of a worry, and besides, thehouse insurers don&#8217;t like it.<br><br>Fortuitously,Barbara and Steve will be house sitting. Good friend Barbara and new partnerSteve have both recently left failed marriages and are looking to start a newlife together. So the arrangement suitsthem, suits us, and suit our insurers. <br><br>But even so,much has to be done to get the house ...

... too bad, smallish suitcase, rucksack with laptop and a handbag), I&#8217;ve been reassured that if I can cope with my luggage on the tube then the USA should hold no fears for me!<br><br>Got all set up at the hotel and then headed off into London Town for last night food and drink with Ellie Dodson. Our search for English food ended up with burgers, chips and onion rings and later cider for the girls and Tia Maria for me. Was a good last night in the UK, lots of giggles.

... br>- Yosemite National Park, California<br>- San Francisco, California<br>- Monterey, California<br>- Santa Barbara, California<br>- Los Angeles, California<br><br>I'm looking forward to seeing the national parks as I spend half my time at work writing about them but I've never actually visited one.<br><br>We go in just under two weeks and I'm not organized at all but I'm really excited.

... months of Typhoons? Hmmm... look's like wellies will be first in my bag.<br><br>Anyway, this is just a short post so that I can register myself and contact the 4 other bloggers that have spent time in Ulsan to find out their opinions on the city.<br><br>The next post will be from Yeovil, where no doubt it will be in the form of diary detailing the trials and tribulations of being a 31 year old returning to live with mother. Oh, the joys!<br><br>Bye for now,<br><br>Jon.<br>

... found a "short cut" to the train station, which turned into a windy-roundabout way of getting there, so we could find out about buying tickets to take the train to London. Turns out we can just show up and buy the ticket whenever we want to go ... mom was about to kill dad. We were all hurting. We hiked back to our hotel, which is where we are now. William disappeared into his room (and I don't blame him!) and mom and ...

... what i'm looking forward to: Going to miss Family. Friends. The cats, Toby and Tory. The horse, Tequila. Having my own room. Looking forward to Leaving Basingstoke. Seeing mountains. Living in a city. Meeting new people. New experiences. I guess that's it for now, if this works you should all recieve emails saying i've written so let me know. Thanks.

... solid! i still have four layers on!) told you id be wearing a lot! O damn, more shopping better be donw then =) My next adventure will be to Morocco, if I am allowed time off. Hopefully over my birthday. Thats what im thinking atth minute. Lets see where that leads...... I think that is all the news, nothing exciting really, as work has started and i'm trying to save! Hope everyone is well, take care and keep the emails coming!! Love Bec x

... half of the lesson, but is supposedly scheduled to be in my class. So I say hello and he sits down. I also have two other new students in this class today and they are all asking me to give them books, as here each faculty gives the students color-coded notebooks at the beginning of the term. They then use those notebooks for all of their work in that course for the year. I will have to leave the room to get the books and I am reluctant to do so with the miscreants in the ...