Karen and Mick

Dover I had a quiet weekend, spending Saturday strolling around Regent’s Park and the canals. On Sunday I caught the train down to Dover (actually went one more stop to Sandwich just to say I’d been there). I explored the castle on the top of the hill including some of the underground tunnels. From the lookout I could see all the way to France. You can’t really see the white cliffs of Dover while you’re standing on them so I took a short cruise on the harbour before I headed back to London. When I got back I caught up with Jess and Stephen in Putney for a last drink before they head off on their tour of Eastern Europe. Farringdon The next Friday I had a huge night out in Farringdon with Nutter. It started ... read more

This has been a while coming unfortunately but here's a quick update. I arrived in London on the 6th April and, after a long wait at terminal 5 (at least my bag did finally arrive unlike so many others), made it in to town and to a very welcome bed. I awoke the next morning to discover it was snowing which was completely amazing and unexpected. I spent my first week in a hostel that was a little more like a half-way house but had a great location in Notting Hill and included breakfast and dinner in the very reasonable price. I spent a lot of time chasing my agencies to organise work as well as sorting out Glastonbury tickets with Jason and Kirstyn and looking for somewhere to live. I also did a bit of ... read more

This is a bit late! Sorry but we got caught up in the excitement of being home! London We arrived off the Eurostar at the new St Pancreas International station in King's Cross and after a quick detour to an internet cafe made our way out to Ciemon and Michael's place where they were kind enough to put us up for a couple of days. We had a good catch up that night over a couple of beers. The next morning we headed into town to check out Westminster Abbey with it's hundreds of years of history. It was smaller inside than we had imagined but chock-full of royal and prestigious families and people. The poet's corner was fascinating with memorials to all the big names like Chaucer (the first buried here), Shakespeare, Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, ... read more

We only had one night to spare for Luxembourg so it’s pretty lucky that it’s another of the ridiculously tiny countries of Europe. It’s about 2500 km2 stuck in the middle of France, Belgium and Germany that’s been fought over for centuries but is now the only independent Grand Duchy in the world. We caught the train from Brussels and arrived in a mysterious fog that made the capital seem like a fairytale kingdom which in some ways it is. Luxembourg City is perched on top of a hill with stone fortresses surrounding it and beautiful turreted buildings that look like they could hold sleeping princesses. We walked around to our hostel which was very modern before exploring the town. The next morning the mist remained as we explored the fortress and down into the garden ... read more

We had a very 'romantic' Valentine's day... catching 3 trains in 6 hours to arrive in Amsterdam. We caught a tram from the train station to our hostel which is very trippy. It has 3 mirror balls, some weird lights and a funny looking pig picture. We were pretty exhausted so we just popped across the road to a coffee shop. To cap a wonderful Valentine's day, we ended up grabbing some McDonalds for dinner. Classy. The next morning we visited the Van Gogh museum which has the largest collection of his paintings in the world (you'd hope so since they named the place after him). After paying the pricey admission we wandered through the collection starting from his early works to his later masterpieces. It went through some details of his life and friends and ... read more