Southampton Travel Blogs

It's 5 days until I leave for Africa. 5 days until I go back to the land I feel so happy in. 5 days until I reach Tanzania where I will attempt the most challenging thing I have ever experienced so far.Today I packed. Well, most of my things anyway. Some of my things need to be laundered and dried.…

Ok with this massive journey coming up and everything it involves, including injections (which I still haven't sorted!), getting the right equipment, resisting the desire to spend money, planning what I am actually gonna do in each country and finally how I am going to survive, you would have thoug…

I took the train from London to Southhampton, England on Saturday the 12th only about 2 hours.  Went to the Titantic museum today.  This is where it started it's voyage on April 10, 1912.  I plan to go to Portsmouth tomarrow to get a ferry to France.  I'm staying in a brand…

I make mistake and write down the number to my Couchsurfing host with one digit wrong in my notepad. I correct it the next day though so its all good. I met this homeless guy, his name is Charlie and he is on methadone now and he tells me they have an apartment for him. He is sleep…

I know its not really travelling, but thought I'd put on a few random photos of my local area..

Visiting Northern Chile in November 2007.

Weronika, (weranda) joined TravBuddy on July 20th and I looked at her profile photo and thought this nice shot could be lightened a little to bring out her face. So I downloaded the photo and changed the lighting, and color balance.  I hope you like it! Welcome to TravBuddy!!!   If t…

Traveling from Chicago to london one way and then on to Sweden, Denmark, Finland, The Netherlands, Spain,Poland and France.

I was looking for somewhere to go to escape from Basingstoke and I found a brochure I had of Southampton. Described as a vibrant city rich in heritage with the 7th best retail center in the UK, it attracted my attention. As I spent a lot of time in my car yesterday, in addition of walking, I was a …

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Dragging mine and 42 other sorry arses around the UK

We took a bus again to London and a train from there to Southampton. Same setting as day before. We woke up early the bus was around 6am I think or earlier and changed at Victoria Station to a train. Saw Kid and Elly there while eating breakfast at Burger King. Took the train with them. There were …

Mrs K Big Adventure

The next stop was Southampton, a nice little seaside town that is a pretty good base to explore this part of England, as long as you have a car.  There’s not a whole lot to see here, although it is pretty cool that there is an old fort standing with pride of place in the middle of the ma…

Well it`s started, I`m off! not too bad so far, had a moment in the car when I realised exactly what I was getting myself in to. To say I was a little scared is an understatement, I`ve just got pure adrenaline pumping through my body. Flight was delayed approximately 1 hour and then had possibly t…