The Rams Head Hotel Barrow-in-Furness

... and even reading very mentally stimulating books... ( no joke... the back of the book Dave is currently reading, i think i understood like.. two and a half words...!!). Home buddies can expect very mature, experienced, intelligent versions of Dave and Alex upon their return to Australia next year!<br><br> Hmmm... I think that is all I can comment on right now... <br><br> If there is something more, i'll jot it down and write soon! <br><br> -x- <br><br> <br><br> <br>

This is the first time Iv used anything like this before. I found out about it through my friend Jordan who writes a comedy sketch of a blog of his travels and I felt inspired to follow in his footsteps. Bare with me,my first blog wont be too interesting as Im just getting the hang of it. Its been a bit of a busy afternoon for me. I've started to get ...

... local stone and was heavily besieged with the rising brook. The trees opposite were already underwater.<br><br>Back at the hut, the key was nowhere to be found. We stood in the porch feeling damp and sorry for ourselves, whilst the rain continued to bucket down. I searched under every stone and in each possible hiding place. Clearly someone had been back and gone out again. We dripped pathetically and considered our options. <br><br>My car was there, but the ...

... cross-country, across a little footbridge, in the dark and stormy night). Mad fools. <br><br>The bedroom had 15 sleeping places, consisting of 5 triple bunks. There were 14 of us staying, so it was kind of cosy. Eartha and I chose top layer bunks where you hit your head on the ceiling if you sat up too fast. Eartha went to sleep and I cracked open a bottle of homemade and joined Vince by the fire.

We are sitting with a huge pile of travel guides, maps, notebooks, post it notes and general accumulated info in front of us wondering where to start!<br><br>The itinery is almost sorted out in terms of countries and cities. We've got the MASTA health brief and the FCO no go areas. We think we've got Visa requirments in hand and the boring (but necessary ...

... my subjects... or washing... or emails to reply to... etc., but i'm slowly re-learning organisation skills (something I seem to have left in Australia). <br><br> So what have I been up to socially?!?<br> I made a trip back to Bolton last friday, my housemate Becca gave me a ride since she lives in Manchester... so we had a fine 30min roadtrip with a gps lady talking to us over loud Becca-style music :) I had to go straight to Bolton library though to finish ...

... leading us to setting up the game on the floor. This was also a rather funny endeavor and led to a new rule of if you can bounce it off the legs of the person on the opposite side and get it into a cup it counts as double the cups.<br><br>Ah now for the main event, the College Black Tie Social. This is a yearly event a venue on the Irish sea that more or less looks like it is straight out of the movie the wedding singer. This event also involves a formal dinner (that even ...

... shot. I took the picture anyway. We voyaged back to Ambleside on the Teal, a larger boat. We ate our picnic on board, only just finishing as the boat was being tied up. <br>It was gone two o'clock and the drive back stretched in front of me like a bad smell. Surely it couldn't be any worse than the drive up? Actually, it came close. Roadworks pushed us off the motorway at Lancaster, where we circumnavigated ...

The weather could not have been more perfect if we had ordered it. It was warm and calm, almost windless. The sky was deep blue and there was hardly a cloud in it. We joined with some of the others to complete a horseshoe shaped walk, effectively following the skyline that could be seen from the cottage. There were eight of us altogether: Donny, me, John, Mary, Colin, Georgie, Roland and Graham. <br><br>The first leg of the journey took ...

... and behold, it had materialised under a rock. We let ourselves in and dragged our sleeping bags out of the car. It's a nice hut, as mountaineering huts go. There are hot showers and a lounge. The kitchen is a decent size and there are three bedrooms full of bunks to choose from, which allows a certain amount of privacy. We were nearly asleep by the time the rest of the party made their way back from the pub.