Cransley Hotel Bournemouth

Today several Trussell Trust staff and volunteers have bruised upper arms from loading hundreds of boxes filled with a reocrd breaking 3800+ Christmas Shoeboxes onto a rather large lorry... The bruises were worth it to see the lorry pull away and begin its 2,450km trip to Bulgaria to transform thousands of Christmases.

We have to say a huge thankyou to all those who donated boxes and to all those hardy souls who braved the cold in ...

Booked flight today - Guatemala on Feb 22nd 2010. So to mark the occasion I thought I'd start my travel diary today as well.

Two months to go - and a lot of list-making, planning, shopping, getting vaccinated, freaking out, and bouncing with excitement to do!

... to our other blog please let me know or alternatively you can search for shunny81 and this is the name of it. There are a few to read but it will take away the boredom on a Friday afternoon.

Hope your all well and the weather is not to bad. Just think of us when its raining having to take shelter of the 35 degree heat.

All the best

Nigel

... me lil sister and her best mate as well as a few drinks in wich-side wit the girlies amy jayde and rachael!! friday busy!! Saturday at the Robin for some food and drinks Sunday see me dad and various good byes and monday>>>>>>>> GONE. Bon Voyage!!!!

So next time i will be writing this will be in Singapore!!

MUCH LOVE!

Bournemouth has a very funny layout.. the two main streets of the town go up both sides of the hills that lead down to the park and eventually to the famous Pier.

I was a bit down in the dumps this day.. I think because I was watching all the families and couples having some fun. It was mid term break so there were heaps of kids around and the entrance to the Pier was packed with amusements and ...

... it was a lovely evening, more cider if I remember rightly. I found out about what my brother Phil got up to while he was staying with them back in 1987!!! Apparently spunky is a rude word for something else in England!! And he frightened poor Frank one night by sliding his car across the gravel out the front of one of the pubs!!!
I definitely have to go back to the New Forest.. if not for the great people but the great outdoor life you can live there.

... instead.. lol. I still can't get over that they don't have huge shopping centres, everyone still has to walk between shops in the wet!

While I was there I had to work out how I was going to get from the railway to the catch the bus to the New Forest. My next port of call!

Southampton is also famous, well in the olden days ...

... been very interesting driving south, and more south through Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire. The rolling hills and green fields with dividers of hedges rather than stone walls. All quite a contrast to Scotland. We find the hedges tall and woolly compared to the short neatly trimmed hedges in Scotland. The sheep are bigger and do not have black faces, the cows are brown and white, or black and white rather than all brown and shaggy. On ...

... These tutors discussed a fairly detailed tutoring training that they have developed, as well as a system for program evaluation that they have implemented (validation). They indicated that the tutoring program at BPC received quite positive marks in their OFSTED report (a quite rigorous school inspection). Higher rates of student retention have been realized through the use of these programs ...

... they had a party for us! All fo Jay and Kellys friends came over, it was pretty rad. I got along real good with all the guys, they drink a lot of carlsberg beer out here. Its reasonably cheap. Onyl tall cans out here too, they think our cans are mini! We had lot's of fun comparing Canada and the U.k. Yesterday we took a ferry out to The Isle of Wight, a touristy Island just outside of bournemouth. we took a bus to a certain point, then walked through amazing rolling hills to this ...