On the Scottish Borders

I was running late as per usual. Kept hitting the snooze button and ended up having to pack my daypack and get dressed at the bus stop in front of the BGH. But at least I caught the right bus to Kelso. Munro Bus 67 drove pass St Boswell and Tweed Ho...

 

Bruges 2005

Brussels was... OK, but, overall, disappointing. So I'll skip straight to the good part: Bruges. It's only about half an hour from Brussels and one of the most beautiful little cities/towns I've ever seen. Everything was picturesque, yet the town seems...

 

Europe

I'll return to complete text soon....

 

Belgium. BYO Fun.

Richie and I took the Eurostar off to Brussels for a romantic long weekend. Visited both Brussels and Brugge. Both nice cities but f*ck all to do after you've wandered around for a day. First night caught the train into the centre. Went to the local...

 

European Getaway

Before arriving in Nice today we stopped off at a French perfumary called Fragonard. We had a tour of the lab, heard about the elusive "Nose", who makes up the purfumes for each factory. Apparently it takes something like 1000kg of flowers ...

 

Sergeant Freeman's Magical History Tour

Fairly last minute decision by Garth and myself to undertake a road trip into Europe for the bank holiday weekend. Took the car ferry from Ramsgate in Kent. We could have been taking a ferry to Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island and it would have se...

 

France

I wrote this huge long entry while in Paris and tried to copy and paste it on to here, but it didn't work! So now I have to somehow find a way to pack it all down into one entry... We were in Marseille for four nights and then Paris for a week. In...