http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Briana-and-Will/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Briana and Will en-us Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:29:13 +0000 Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:29:13 +0000 I had a wonderful bridal shower thrown for me hosted by my mom and my matron of honour Jackie. It was so great to have family and close friends around especially since I've hardly seen anyone in two years The shower kicked off with people introducing themselves to each other. This was then followed by some fun bridal shower games with prizes for the winners Game 1 British Equivalents Give http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/blog-424867.html We're back again with some more travel photos Cambridge is a city in England that we've wanted to visit since we first arrived in August 2007. We figured that since the number of weekends remaining before we come home are limited we had better get there soon So last weekend we hired a car and went on another road trip Luckily the weather was on our side and it was a beautiful day. Strangely http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-415543.html Hi again everyone It feels like ages since we posted our last blog in May. Last year we had tons of blog posts because we were very excited to share all of our travelling adventures with you when we visited amazing countries like Italy France Germany etc. We haven't done as much travelling this year due to the fact that we're saving up our pennies for our wedding We can hardly believe that ou http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Buckinghamshire/Aylesbury/blog-414386.html Sugarland made their first ever trip to the UK in March so we were really excited to get tickets since we love their music We also went to see Taylor Swift in London in May. Enjoy the pics http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Lee/blog-397369.html We're back with another installment of the Adventures of Will Bri This time our adventures included two friends Heather an American from Philadelphia and Andy an Englishman from...England Both of them are teachers at the same school as us. Heather teaches Math and Andy teaches P.E. Since it was a long weekend we decided to avoid doing any work and go on a road trip to North Wales Wales is http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Bangor/blog-396259.html Hi again everyone We are now in the second half of our two week Easter break. We spent all of our first week waiting around hoping that we could come home for our buck doe. Again thank you to everyone who helped make it a big success Since the buck doe we have tried to make the best of our time off while we've been stuck here in England Last week we ventured into London for one daysimply http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Kent/Dover/blog-390070.html Yes the title says it all Last night was our Buck Doe held at Tavistock Memorial Hall. However guests in attendance would have noticed that the party lacked the Buck groom and the Doe bride. We did not plan this intentionally For any of you who have not heard the story we were suppose to be home on Saturday 4 April. Howevere we got terribly screwed over by the UK Border Agency who ha http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/blog-389228.html Itrsquos halfterm break once again Our choices of travel were limited because we currently do not have our passports. Therefore we could not travel outside of the UK. Our passports are currently with the UK Border Agency awaiting approval to allow us to remain in England until August. So we decided to visit the historic city of York for 3 days.York is located in the northern part of England http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/York/blog-375296.html We have now finished the last leg of our Christmas traveling adventures We spent the last 6 days in Edinburgh Scotland. We were hoping to see snow while we were away but despite getting quite cold at night the weather was fairly mild during the entire trip. Our trip began with a fright at Stansted airport in London. We made our way to the checkin desk on the morning of Dec.23 only to find out http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/blog-357143.html And so begins our adventure to yet another country To be exact Belgium is now the 8th country wersquove visited in Europe We began our journey on the Eurostar from London to Brussels. Taking the train was a nice change from flying since we didnrsquot have to be at the train station until approximately 45 minutes before departure. Although the Eurostar is one of the fastest trains in the wor http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Belgium/Brussels-Capital-Region/Brussels/blog-356495.html Hello again We are back with another installment from our traveling adventures We returned late last night from a four day excursion to Ireland. Ireland is a very beautiful country with lots of greenery and wonderful rolling hills and countryside. We experienced all sorts of weather It was quite cold but we got some sunshine as well as rain and snow We started our adventure at 3am on Tuesday http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Dublin/Dublin/blog-340531.html Hi again everyone Happy Thanksgiving to all of you at home we wish we could be there to share in a fantastic turkey dinner The two of us are doing well. We're busy with work as usual and counting down the days until our first halfterm break which is in two weeks. Yesterday we ventured to Canterbury a city in Kent in the south east of England. We began our day at 730am by grabbing a coffee http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Kent/Canterbury/blog-331101.html Hello again everyone It's been awhile since we've posted any new updates so we thought we'd drop in to let you all know that everything is going well It's been a month now since we came back to England. For the first few weeks we saw nothing but rain but this past week the weather has been gorgeous We took advantage of the sunshine today and went outside to take some pictures by the canal at t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Buckinghamshire/Aylesbury/blog-328527.html Hi again everyone We have made it back to England safely and are now back in our house in Aylesbury. Overall our trip over the pond was pleasant. Our original flights back were suppose to be on Saturday night leaving Toronto at 1025pm. However due to Zoom Airlines shutting down we had to find new flights back. Thankfully we were able to book flights out of Buffalo NY with United Airlines lea http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/blog-318339.html Hi again everyone Sadly we are now in our last week before we fly back to England for one more year. Our five weeks at home have been very busy filled with wedding planning and visiting as many people as possible dividing our time between KW Toronto and Stratford. We tried our best but unfortunately we just couldn't get around to see everyone. The good news is that we'll be back in April for t http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/North-Bay/blog-315813.html Yesterday was a very eventful day Our lovely friends threw us an engagement welcome home party which our friends Jackie and Jeremy hosted at their new house in St. Mary's. The party was fantastic and it was great to see everyone who came out Our entire wedding party was there with the exception of two people who had other commitments. The food was great too BBQ hamburgers hot dogs corn on http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/St-Mary-s/blog-308316.html Hi there everyone Will and I are now officially back in Canada. We arrived last night after spending a long 8.5 hours in the air plus an additional hour for a stopover in Montreal. But overall the flight was pretty good Surprisingly neither one of us slept for more than half an hour the entire time. We were kept awake by the movies that were playing as well as by sheer excitement Our plans for http://www.travelblog.org//blog-305374.html Today we hired a car with our friend Kathleen and went for a 2 hour road trip to Brighton which is on the south coast of England. The rain decided to hold off for the entire day and the sun chose to show it's face so we were very happy Brighton is known for its Royal Pavilion which is a former Royal palace built in the early 1800s and is notable for Indian architecture. Brighton is also known for http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/East-Sussex/Brighton/blog-299302.html This weekend we decided to hire a car and take off on a day trip with our friend Kathleen. Our first destination was the historic Roman city of Bath. Bath is famous for its hot springs Roman period baths Medieval heritage and stately Georgian architecture. The drive to Bath took approximately 2 hours. We made our way to a car park and then wandered the streets and visited the Roman baths. The b http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-290068.html Well we just got back from a week of traveling with 44 students to Germany. We traveled with two other teachers Ben and Kerrie both of whom are from Australia. We survived five days of hearing Are we there yet How much longer Can we put another film on on the coach bus Where are we and What's for dinner tonight It was a new experience since neither one of us has ever lead a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/North-Rhine-Westphalia/blog-284818.html