UK Holiday with Mum and Dad June 07

I got the train from Manchester to London to meet Mum and Dad. It had been over a year since I saw them off at Melbourne Airport, so was a bit emotional when I did see them. We did a few touristy things in London, went to Brighton for the day, and Lo...

 

Goodbye Edinburgh, Hello World

Well, apparently our time is nearly up and we're having to return to dear old Blighty very soon. Life's a beach, isn't it? Well it has been for us recently, anyway. We've been in Thailand for around two months now. It's the kind of place where nothi...

 

Round the World Trip 2006/07

After all these years of 'one day planning to go in the future'....I made it across the world to the world down under. We are spending 3 months in this lovely country and had to apply for a 3 month holiday visa to be able to do so. Personally, I fo...

 

Gap Year : New Zealand

It's a little over a week now since I left Whitianga. I'm currently sitting in the net cafe at Base Backpackers in Wellington on a sweaty Thursday evening with a nice cup of tea. I'm here in Wellington until Sunday morning, when I catch my flight over ...

 

Work Entries

My team from work went to Cumbria, to visit some of the Road Schemes that we are working on. The Lake District is a really beautiful place to visit, and it was great to get more of an idea about what our team does....

 

Manchester

Manchester Pride started off with "Pride Games Lite", consisting of a few different sporting events including a 5km "fun" run and the Bell Boat Races, of which our team (The Sharks Water Polo Team) was victorious! ...

 

Belgium Easter 2006

Flew from Manchester on BA into Brussels. We'd been advised just to get the train into Brussels Central from the airport as it was quick and cheap. Our hotel Le Meridien was just across from the station so it was incredibly convenient. Hotel was a...

 

London Life

After enduring much chaos at Colombo & Dubai Airports I arrived at Heathrow only to que for an hour for a trolley to pick up my luggage. NOTE: This was the day after the terrorist plot to blow up planes from UK to the US was spoilt! Around 3 hours...

 

Jailbreak!

Manchester Jailbreak 2005 - A charity event set up by the University charity, in which teams of two have to get as far away from Manchester without spending ANY money in 30 hours! Me and my team-mate Ashleigh set off with high hopes of grabbing a pl...

 

World Backpacking Trip (Part 1) - South America & USA 2005 / 2006

24th December 2005 I met Gabriela for lunch and after we went Christmas shopping which was easier than yesterday because she knew somewhere that was less busy so of course less people begging. I find this side of things very difficult. By the ti...

 

Kinsale

....Woke up early next morning for the drive to Crosshaven. Met Ross at Royal Cork Yacht Club and boarded our Yacht, a Sigma 38. After a lot of faffing around getting her out of her berth we were finally out into Cork Harbour for a spot of sailing. We ...

 

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 ...

 

Milton Keynes

I spent this weekend in Milton Keynes visiting my sister, Louise. I got the train down from Manchester on Friday evening. Very impressed by the speed and smoothness of the trains. We spent Saturday exploring the markets of Leighton Buzzard, and ca...

 

East Coast America Trip January/February 2007

we left Manchester at 10.30am and it was cold. We flew upperclass with Virgin...Very nice way to travel lol. We arrived into Orlando and flew on up to Boston with Jetblue. OMG it wasnt just cold it was COLD , COLD AND OH SO COLD. We got our rentail car...

 

Another weekend away - Manchester

Another dash away. Interesting place, very mixed but we liked the city centre. Happened to be there during Manchester Pride which we had realised, trapsed out to Salford Lads Club (where the Smiths played) and attempted to take our own photo, and gen...

 

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...

 

Family Holiday to New York

Had a fantastic week in New York with Mum, Doug, Dave and Bri. Saw all the sights I missed last time as we were staying near Times Square. We were there for one of the hottest weeks the US has seen! ...

 

monkeys-eyes

Flew away with my then-girlfriend....

 

Malaysia/Australia - Christmas and New Year 2004-2005

After saying a tearful goodbye to my Sister again before we would meet up again in September, I stopped off for aone night in KL to break up the mammoth trip home. Had a well good time, and it was nice to spend a bit of time by myself exploring the ...

 

Hot day in Africa

would be one of the largest deals for the industry in the last several years. If the deal is approved, what might the big picture be of the life?...

 

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...

 

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...

 

Around the world...

Arriving in Dalat was a bit odd as it is right up in the Highlands and is about 10 degrees cooler than we have been used to. We had a great couple of days there. The town is pretty quiet but there are some great waterfalls and lakes in the area around ...

 

scotland and such

It had been some 16 years since I’ve seen the friends I visited up north. Regardless we were able to pick up where we left off around the dinner tables. Each household (three total in Liverpool and Manchester) cooked such eloquent meals for me that my...

 

The World Jaunt

Auckland...

 

India 2005

18 months...

 

South Africa 2005

Went to Mkuzi then GSLWP for 4 weeks...

 

World Backpacking Trip (Part 2) - New Zealand, Australia, Asia & Europe 2006 / 2007

Wednesday 11th April I Woke at 5am as train rattled into Hanoi. I met Aaron and Natalie at the front of the station and we took a taxi back to the same hotel, where we had breakfast because nowhere else was open before 8am. Then I took a ta...

 

iGEM Trips

It pays to be a scientist (or a budding one in my case!) ... This year as a participant in the iGEM competition I got to travel on a weekend from the real Cambridge to visit MIT in Cambridge, USA! Was a nice experience..MIT has impressive facilities b...

 

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 ...