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...

 

Newcastle England 2006

Ok.. so I have been living in Newcastle England since January 21, 2006. Since I've been here I've made amazing friends, gone to amazing places and seen amazing things. Besides that I have had a blast, partied like a rock star and done all sorts of cr...

 

My Life of London

Well, what a huge day. I got up at the usual weekday time in order to get yo Paddington for the earlyish morning train to Cardiff, I was off to the Australia v Wales rugby match. (Or Awstralia v Cymru in welsh) On the trip out I was sitting with a f...

 

Hadrian's Wall

Having spent a long month in Orkney, Marianne and I decided to treat ourselves with a nice long walk. Travelling from Newcastle to Carlisle (two modern wonders of the world) along the fairly old Hadrian's Wall (not so impressive). We travelled up to...

 

newcastle and durham regatta

The bridges of newcastle (they only have 7 in a row!) and the university of durham regatta....

 

The World Jaunt

Auckland...

 

Back in Newcastle!!!!

These are all pictures of our good friends that we've made in Newcastle. Mostly we're just hanging out in my room or we're out at a club. There are also a few from when Jen (Rachel's sister) was here visiting....

 

Don't go back to Dalston

Moved into 8 Studd St in Angel with Katie B, Katie R, and Caroline. A new era was about to begin... ...

 

Hadrian's Wall Trek

Louise has done a great job of writing about our trek, so I thought I would just put a link to her journal here: http://mylifeoftravel.com/ViewJournal.aspx?ID=f554ff0e-d782-4a35-9396-08b4ca7e9258 (Just copy and past the link into the address ...

 

Living in Pegswood, Northumberland.

After a couple months of holidaying and inevitably spending (a lot of) money, I decided it was about time to go back to work and earn some money and stay in one place for a while. Travelling intensively like I did for so long was great, but towards th...

 

2003-2007

It was my first real experience abroad! Working six months in a big american company. This city is really amazing, the people in Newcastle are called the geordie and have a strong accent which almost impossible to understand in the beginning, even for ...

 

Walking the Wall with Fi - Hadrian's Path Trek

Another spectacular day of walking. Not quite past the hard parts, but the walking was definately getting easier and compared to the previous day it was "easy peasy"! More walking through fields of cows and sheep too. Our walk today brou...

 

Newcastle UK

We went to Newcastle for easter, to see a friend of ours. Newcastle was a small town, the air smelt clean and was a nice break from busy london. We went shopping, went out and relaxed. The guy has a nice apartment overlooking the river. Also went to th...

 

Christmas Holidays 05/06

Back from Cambridge. Expect to ignore the weirdness by sleeping non-stop for a week!...