United Kingdom Travel Blogs - Page 3

Tonight, my mum and I went to the Royal Albert Hall for one of the Proms.  The Proms are an important British tradition.  The rough idea, established 115 years ago, was that normal people should be able to afford to go to “promenade concerts,” top quality classical music in an informa…

SUNDAY: DAY 31:  I don't have a journal for this day so bear with me. I'm not sure why I didn't keep notes, probably because it was our last full day which is always depressing to us. Our stops for today were places that we missed or were closed that had been on our itinerary. The first one be…

Well.  Here I am.  A 'free' man. "But what's the plan?" Now there's a question.  And now I sit and think a bit because I'll soon be on my way.  Time to get things started.  "What things?"  Why, everything.  The Journey.  I'm leaving Home and it's all a little…

So in the end maybe it’s as simple and gentle as that.  A pleasant bowl of luscious pasta with mince, olives and smoked applewood cheese knocked together by my sis.  A few final photos accompanied by assurances and promises to catch up with each other “soon” somewhere, somewhen on t…

After leaving Drogheda, we headed north toward Derry, our destination for the day.  On the way, we made a stop at a rather random cemetary.  This, however, turned out to be a really neat place!  The graves were hundreds of years old and there were celtic crosses that dated back over …

  The cold on the first day in London was disappear since I stepped here, Bangkok my home town, again. Not more than 5 minutes, I sweated! 14 hours different, also the temperature from 8c to 34c !   Don't know when I got a chance to wander around the world again. I've heard a lot of my…

So it was time for another Meet up. Mike had kindly organised a full day of sight seeing/eating/drinking through London. the day started at 10 am in the Liberty Bounds pub opposite the Tower of London. I had been up for hours already and was starving so ordered myself a breakfast. There were about …

Saturday 9th February   Day of the meet-up! Wooot! This was the second London meet-up, and my third meet-up in the space of two weeks! These meet-ups are taking over my life!!....hahha!   So we got up at like 9am, Lori left to go home and shower and get ready for Wagamamas at 1pm, but…

How do i even start writing about this? I can't even remember half of the stuff that happened and am still trying to figure it all out from the pictures! We'd been waiting for this night for quite a while, ever since Michelles b'day celebrations were over, and we needed another excuse to party!..…

The last day is always the worst. And even more so when your flight is at 9am (blame the end of BST) and your parents are urging you to get ready soon and leave! So left the hotel at 6am, kept an entire Onken Biopot with me to eat on the HEX. The original plan was to catch Heathrow Connect but ther…

Scotland's Castles and the Aberdeenshire Castle Trail Step back in time on Scotland's only Castle Trail. Aberdeenshire is matchless in the richness of its castle tradition, and Scotland's Castle Trail brings together some of the most splendid examples of castellated architecture together on a…

As of today I’ve got two weeks to get my sorry backside into gear and sort out pretty much everything for going away. I finished work last Friday; a strange feeling after three and a half years of seeing the same people for 7 hours a day.  We went out after work - it went a bit like…

WOW what an awesome short trip to scotland. i will be back to this beautiful country. i would like to go more north. i would like to visit the islands, iverness and aberdeen. i sit here in the airport recaping all the things i have seen and experienced.  i would stay in edinburgh next time.&nb…

I have exactly 4 minutes to do this.  here goes: (free expensive breakfast.  always nice) fourth hostel in four days.  not so nice. poeple drinking on the tube starting at 11:30am because of the FA Cup.  Funny. Saw the FA Cup.  Boring. Beautiful day outside, everybody …

Well, "HERE WE GO!!!", final full day of potential clamberin', scramblin' madness in the District, and I've saved the BIGGEST for last... yep, I'm gonna peg it to the top of Skiddaw, and at 3,053 ft (that's 509 Weselbys high!!!) this will easily be the biggest hit of the trip.... drrrrrrrum roll...…