The Grange Hotel Crawley

... and see people just touching these centuries-old clay pieces, but that's just what they do, I guess. We were able to find some Sumerian cuneiform tablets, which I couldn't exactly read, but I did recognize some of the symbols at least. We were kind of limited on time, though, so we left and went to our various musicals. Les Mis was pretty incredible, even though I'd seen it before. It's been a few years, but I've heard the songs quite a bit since then, so I was still familiar with it ...

... and I still stand by that even after having been to La Tomatina and Oktoberfest. Twenty thousand Kiwis come together as one to celebrate and it is the one day of the year people are allowd to gather at parliament square...people are dressed up and singing tunes from back home and the sense of pride just swells inside u. I have never felt so proud to be a Kiwi as I did on Waitangi Day this year... Back home Waitangi Day is nothing special....just a ...

Ok, so Im sitting in my office, its the afternoon but dark already.. have just about finished all my work and thought I'd give this a whirl!! Hopefully this whole blogging thing is as easy as it looks, so when I've got min time I can quickly just whip ...

This entry was written by Colin.       I went to the Tower of London.  It  was used as a fortress and a prison long ago.  After we took a tour of the tower, I watched a show with some siege engines.      One of them was a huge crossbow.  It works by spinning a wheel, that pulls a stick, which spins a huge bind of rope, and when the rope untwists, it shoots an arrow bolt.  The arrow ...

... to arrive several hours before departure, immigration procedures since I'm not an EU citizen, etc. One wish, though, is that I had someone to travel with during this leg of the journey, but unfortunately I'm gonna have to go it alone. Being by myself worries me a bit... an American in the Balkans is going to stick out just a little bit; especially one that's 6'4". I've been reading several travel sites and it sounds like I should run into ...

When I arrived at Gatwick I got the transit train to the North terminal. Upon security I had my suncream confiscated because the bottle was 'too big'. However I could buy a new one in one of the many shops in the departure lounge and take that. No thanks.

... has 30 rooms; the ones at the back are the quietest, and we had been forewarned to request one, so we got a double room (room with double bed) in the basement near the breakfast room. Washroom was not included, but we shared ours with only a few other rooms. The breakfast was the standard "English breakfast" (eggs with a side alternating between some variant of very salty bacon and tomatoes, accompanied by toast and coffee or tea). We also had free run of a cozy common ...

... auberge un conseil pour ma destination suivante? essayer d eviter le plus possible les backpackers a anglo saxons moyen qui sont dans hostels bookers et le lonely.. c est difficile quand tu voyages seul, car tu dois rencontrer du monde pour pas mourir de solitude et de depression apres 1 mois, tout seul dans ta chambre... mes meilleures adresses ci dessus et restos sont pas dans le routard ou le lonely planet pour la plus part.. les YHA, HI.. sont une valeur sur, mais c est un ...

... play-off final between Bristol Rovers and Shrewsbury Town. Although Bristol Rovers isn't my official club (that is the not-so-mighty AFC Bournemouth), it was a good excuse to catch up with some old mates from my university days and to visit Wembley. Do you ever get a feeling you're going to have a bad day? I had that very feeling friday evening. I wake up to find out that we are still waiting for our tickets to be ...

... money...money that Paul owed me. In a fit of rare sore-los** syndrome I took the corn**s of the board and hoisted it into the air. One month lat** we w**e still finding green houses und**neath the sofa. On the way out of the museum th**e was a notice telling us the museum was closing down on the 22nd of February. I asked the attendant why. "It has something to do with the ...