United Kingdom Travel Blogs - Page 4

My last day in Derry was a rainy day, so I checked out the Tower Museum, which chronicles the history of the City and also the discovery of one of the sunken ships of the Spanish Armada, which was a failed attempt to invade England in 1588.  After that I grabbed groceries and headed back to th…

After this trip, I now know this to be true:  "What you don't know can't hurt you." I have never seen ghosts nor experienced anything close to the paranormal (and I'm not complaining :)). However, I do have a wild imagination and I tend to torture myself for weeks aft…

It isn't until you get to the end of a trip that you realise where you have been.  So, now we are at the end of this trip, where have we been?  We began the year in Canada, then New Zealand and Australia, all interesting places with fantastic and breathtaking scenery.  Yet in many wa…

I was shocked by the heat, humidity and general sweatiness... ...that's right... sat in Terminal 4 at London Heathrow awaiting my connecting flight to Beijing. I'm sat eating a chicken,bacon and mustard wedge and drinking a coffee from the Coffee Republic with my rucksack sat on a trolley. P…

My last day in London was ... well like all my last days in London...busy till the last minute! I woke up rather early but thanks to the long queue for breakfast, I ended up spending nearly 1 hour just to eat. Grabbed my iPod, got on the Tube to Trafalgar Square. This is one of my favourite spots …

An Orwellian Nightmare Arrive at heathrow. Hug hello with Ma & John. Feels like a both a blink and a lifetime has passed since we said Goodbye in this same place. Physically shocked by the cold night air. John puts on car seat heating. Roads out of London seem quiet and orderly…

Northern Ireland is the region that contains an extraordinary beauty of spectacular coastal scenery of dramatic cliffs and headlands broken by the wide sweep of fresh sandy beaches backed by Dunes. Within the days of my stay, I enjoyed these fantastic landscapes and the most beautiful and…

this might well be one of the wierdest and creepiest places ive ever been to! not that ive been there but its like how i imagine the scene around were the texas chainsaw massacre would be lol. wierd desilate land and not many people at all. we where just there as a day out with my friend grant, who…

This was a fairly large meet-up and it had the same amount of people that the other official meet-up had even though this was the mini one haha. It was also a birthday celebration for Hannah and Mark!! Here is everyone that was present: Me-lovely_lori88Ruby-2winWayne-wayneorellenshawMark-Bondy2007…

Am leaving London tomorrow, a week early. Family emergency. I don't really want to go into the details since half the people who read this I don't even know. So family emergency will suffice. I'm not sure how I feel about leaving. I thought I would be gung-ho... I've been ready to leave for a whil…

So there'd been a meet up organised in Edinburgh for August which I couldn't make but it had fallen through anyway. So as I'd planned on heading to Edinburgh, I set up a new forum to meet locals of the area. Well in the end we only had 3 locals of Scotland and none of them from Edinburgh!! Haha. It…

  Adam, Bella, and the kids took me on a tour of the River Thames. We rode the tube from Southfields station to Westminster. After riding an escalator, an elevator, and climbing a few  stairs - or the ramp with Dorothy's stroller - we emerged above ground in the shadow of Big Ben. The g…

If you have made it this far through my first blog im impressed. Thankyou for taking the time to read/flick through my trip to Africa and look at my photo's I hope it was not to boring, I will try and make my next one better but you will have to wait a while for that ( everybody makes a sigh of re…

I was a little nervous going over the ocean for the first time but everything went fine except for being unable to sleep on the plane. Too much noise and some turbulence combined with my first long 8 hour flight and the excitement of being out of the USA was the cause of this. I was going with one …

I had been looking forward to this night for ages. Not because Matt was leaving but because I'd get to go on the piss with a great bunch of people. I got to the River Bar on Tower Bridge Road at just after 7. There were already a few familiar faces there. Shortly after I got there we moved down to …