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...

 

First Weekend In London

Photos from Easter Saturday, drinks at the Icon Bar(photos that Lindz took have been edited!!!!) and at the airport....

 

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...

 

Studying in London, Spring 06

Bare with me, this will be a long one... WOW! Norway was pretty ridiculous. Hey! Did you know that Oslo is one of the most expensive cities in the world?!... Day 1: Denysha and I get in Oslo Torp Airport very late because our plane ran late. On the...

 

Europe Photo Album 2005 -2007

Various shots of tourist sites around London taken in the year and a bit I lived there. I really got to know London well after I bought my bike. London is surprisingly bicycle friendly (better than Auckland) and I would ride from home to work basic...

 

January/February/March 2006

My room mate Josephine and I took the tube and then the DLR train to Greenwich, East London. Lots to see here. National Maritime Museum/Naval buildings. Walked through the park and up the hill to the must visit Royal Observatory. The Royal Obse...

 

Journies in a Beamer

Canterbury, Rye, Battle, Southampton, Romsey, Isle of Wight, Winchester, Stone Henge, Sailsbury, Stratford-upo-Avon, Oxford, Warwick. That's about all there is to tell really. It happened so long ago I can't be sure if anything funny happened, in fa...

 

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...

 

Eurotrip 05/06

Sweden with Mark and Ben...

 

My Semester Abroad

Our weekend in Paris was full of interesting sites and people. Communicating in another language is always fun, especially when you don't know it. And as most of you all know I have a hard enough time communicating my thoughts in English let alone in...

 

European Trips - 2004-2006

Before my trip to Barca, I had heard so much about it. About how it one of the best cities in the world to visit, and how beautiful it is etc. So my expectations were very high for my first visit to the place, which is rarely a good thing. But I have ...

 

Pretending to be an Expat

i arrived in Brussels to the most amazing weather there has been during my entire stay in Brussels. i took a taxi from Zaventem airport to my sight-unseen apartment. My roomate was not to arrive for another 6 days and some random person on the street (...

 

Jan-April 2003 - United Kingdom

LONDON: We made two sighting trips to London. 1) Our first was simply to see the Wallace Collection Gallery which had some pretty amazing armory, paintings, and other old relics. We also spent time on Oxford street....aka SHOPPING. 2) Our secon...

 

Travelling around England

So last wednesday, I finally decided to go and see our "sister institution" in england - oxford (those there would call it mother institution - whatever...) A bigger city, certainly...

 

Global Gathering 06

Well where do we start with this event!!! The excitment started on Friday night because everyone was far too excited to sleep! Our plan of having an early night just did not seem to eventuate and when we managed to roll into bed around 1am sleep was ...

 

Doing the Full Monty with Haggis

We had a lazy morning frolicking in the woods around the Lake District and Aira Force (even got to see a waterfall) before heading further north to Cawfield Quarry to climb part of Hadrian's Wall. I can't believe so much of the wall is still intact. W...

 

V Festival 2006

Simon said I had to go to a multiday music festival. I was hoping like anything that it wouldn't be wet but that wasn't to be. It rained for most of Saturday but improved somewhat for Sunday. We saw... on Saturday little bit of Lilly Allen - she ...

 

Global Gathering 2006

I went to this dance festival called "Global Gathering", with my Can-stralian mate Chista and my Aussie mate Cori. Over 40,000 people were there! All the big names were spinning Fat Boy Slim, Oakenfold, Pete Tong, Sacha and saw Crazy P live...

 

England cycle ride

The plans I make are hardly worth making, I never seem to stick to them. The idea was to be up and away by 10am on the road to Ullswater but thanks to being distracted by “100 Sexiest Moments” on TV until one in the morning I didn’t even roll out of b...