SandraLund

I know this is a blog site dedicated to travelling, and travel I did, but this particular blog is more about the experience of an Irish Wedding. My trip to Cavan was to attend my mate Paul's sisters wedding. Paul is from a large family of 8 siblings and this was the first time I'd met them. I flew into Dublin first thing in the morning and met Paul who was already there. He then drove me up to his home town. The weather was pretty good and it was my first chance to get a look at the Irish countryside. It is very green and lush, and reminded me a lot of home. As soon as we hit Cavan, I could see Brady signs everywhere. There was a Brady pub, a Brady Real Estate shop, ... read more

At Christmas one of my closest buddies, Scott, arrived over from NZ (we've actually swapped countries so he's an Englander living in NZ) and I took a few days off work so we could head up North together. It was just after Scott's birthday so I bought him a bottle of bubbles which we enjoyed on the trip up. Was the best train trip I've had probably ever ;-} The train was pretty packed (I think some poor souls had to stand), but we were cosy with our seats, our plonk, and the gourmet picnic that Scott brought along. The views up were amazing. The good old English countryside put on a grand show. There was a lot of frost around (it looked like snow to me) and the further north we head, the clearer the ... read more

Well the original version of this seems to have disappeared to the land of internet heaven. Not sure what the story is, but will try and remember what I wrote previously :-) We set off early on the Friday morning via the Eurostar from Waterloo to Paris. On this particular train was myself, Lou and Mark, Peta and Duncan, and half of the rest of the london-kiwi community. My mates and I were on separate carriages but my carriage was chocker-block with kiwis. This was established early in the trip and it was a fun trip chatting to everyone about the up-and-coming game. We arrived about lunch time and I met Lou and Mark for lunch before booking in to our hotel - Hotel du Cygne. It was a really quaint hotel located centrally in Paris. ... read more

A couple of days in London Well the Fab 4 have been split up. Georgia headed back to Australia not long after we got back to London, but Amy and Gav stayed on for a wee while so we decided to check out some of the sights of London. We met up at my place and wandered up past St Pauls to the Thames River bank. We followed the river up to the Embankment and caught one of the River boats that took us to Greenwich. It was such a sunny day and we were all really tired after the tour so it was nice to sit back and relax. Once we got to Greenwich we walked past the University and up through Greenwich Park. We wandered by the National Maritime Museum and had a look ... read more

Lucerne to Paris Today we travelled to our last country before heading back to England. We headed through the Jura mountains and into Burgundy (didn't stop for a tasting unfortunately :-( ). Again the scenery was very picturesque and we made it into Paris later that afternoon. We had a fleeting glance of the city as we drove to our hotel and managed to catch a glimpse of Notre Dame (sans the Hunchback) and saw many vendors alongside the Seine which we'll have to go and revisit! After a quick pitstop at the hotel, we all hopped back on to the coach to go visit the Eiffel Tower. It was amazing. We arrived just before dusk but as we waited at the base to go up, big black clouds rolled in and then lightening struck right ... read more