British Studies

This evening a little over half the students participated in a murder mystery event which Kendra has been slaving over for weeks. It was a lot of fun, a little long, but amusing nonetheless. My character was an old society lady who liked her gin by the...

 

london study abroad spring 2006 - or as bridget would call it "what i ate in london"

Greetings! It is official - I AM GOING TO SEE QUANITC TOMORROW! I bought the tickets online last night. It is at the Jazz Cafe with doors at 11pm. So, when I turn 21 at midnight, I will be watching and dancing to one of my favourite djs. How per...

 

The Big Oh-Eee

I drank more Guinness than I have ever even SEEN in my life, but it would be rude to go to Dublin and not have one! Plus it was the cheapest drink in every pub which is the main reason we kept drinking it rather than switching to something else! ...

 

First London trip April/May 2006

On Friday afternoon we caught the Tube to Richmond where Helen met us at Costa's for coffee. She presented us with the most gorgeous flower bedecked box of choccies from Whittard's of Chelsea. We walked along the river while we waited for Claudette to ...

 

Exchange 06/07

so flight was rather unveventful most interesting thing was my flight attentents name was Poo. yeah thought it was funny... got lots of free alks yeww! had a stop over in japan sayed in a like 5 star hotel its was cool. It had a toilet that squirted wa...

 

An English summer holiday

Simon's Mum has been over in Turkey and came to visit us for 4 days at the end of her trip. To make the most of the time, we decided to head straight out of London and take her on an English seaside summer holiday to Cornwall and Devon. What a wonder...

 

Semester in London

Today is my bday.. and we woke up at 4 am to catch our flight to Munich. Fun times eh! It wasn't too bad. Our plane was an hour late that was a bit disappointing.. aparently the security ppl would not let a flight attendent in the airport. Anyways, we ...

 

Living In London

This is the last week of my 4 weeks pre-reg training. Just need to send in a few more bits of paperwork to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and then I'll be qualified to work in the UK - doesn't mean that I'll be competent... I've a...

 

ENGLAND

London is a great place to visit, though horribly expensive. I enjoyed New Years Eve there as well as the New Years Day Parade 2005. I made my way to Stonehenge too which is quite interesting. Salisbury, the town right by Stonehenge is also worth a vis...

 

Our big trip

Gavin’s bit: The Hilton put on a great breakfast spread, and after Sam polished off about three courses we eventually made our way back out onto the M3, shooting down to Portsmouth. Today we visited the Royal Navy’s base down on the Solvent. Abou...

 

Holidaying in the UK - April 3rd to June 18th 2006

Andrew Hough (aka Huffy) came to visit me in Milton Keynes this weekend. Did heaps of walking, went bowling, eating, drinking, to the movies, and failed a dance arcard game. Sunday found us in Apsley (halfway back to London) where we refreshed ou...

 

April - July 2007

The second May Bank Holiday and my birthday. Unfortunately wet, windy and cold day but we had fun nonetheless. First up we had lunch at Zizzi restaurant on The Strand and then we headed to the nearby posh Savoy hotel to celebrate in style with champa...

 

Long weekend in a rental car

We had a long weekend and thought we would head off and have a look at a part of south England. We rented a car from Heathrow (our flatmate said that would be easiest from where we live) and ended up on the M25 going in the wrong direction. It was da...