Joined: December 19th 2006
Logged in: October 9th 2011
In December 2006 I left my job as 'Interdisciplinary Research Officer' at the University of Manchester. Before setting out on my RTW trip, I carried out a vast amount odf de-cluttering and de-junking, completed (reading) a number of careers books, produced web sites and a chapter for a high-profile book for
London Transport Museum, plus generated some ideas for further articles. I completed my TEFL training in expectation that I would go to Vietnam for 6 months, but after 4 months of problems with i-to-i I received my money back and rethought my plans. The final route generated was as follows:
http://www.bex.ww2poster.co.uk/career/rtw_travel.htm. The original GAP date for South America fell through so I gained an extra 2 weeks in New Zealand.
Whilst away I arranged to work for
Oak Hall over the summer of 2008 as a Tour Leader and had the most enjoyable (if tiring) summer ever working on a number of trips in Europe (see:
My Potential Summer Itinerary), meeting many new people! My last trip with Oak Hall was in November 2008, so this particular blog has come to an end (once I complete the last few entries), as I concentrate on
something else!
Thanks to those of you who bookmarked my site
http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/drbexl/, or subscribed, and I hope you enjoyed some of the entrie and photos. As I understood it, subscription information was not used for anything other than automatically updating you when I added a completely new blog. AsI was on time-limited internet access, so this was the easiest way to keep in touch with people (although please bear in mind that a large part of keeping this blog is to keep records for myself, so there may be a level of detail slightly overwhelming for others!).

Travel Blog Posts
drbexl November 10th 2008
Scanning the Ads I'm back in the UK, I'm job-hunting! This blog (all 244 entries!) has become a bit of an effort, and as I'm only expecting to travel around sporadically now, I think I'll draw it to a healthy close... there's always the option of adding a few extra entries, or coming back and writing those "Best of the Month" entries I'd originally planned... the travelling itself kinda got in the way of that! 10th November Today I had an all-day interview in Leamington Spa as Communications and Web Officer for CPAS. Great company, great product, great place to live. Unfortunately I was not the first choice, but the second, but was given lots of positive feedback, and was encouraged to continue in looking for these kind of roles. It is likely that I will spend a couple
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drbexl November 9th 2008
P1010668 Back again...
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P1010535 Tramping in the ice
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drbexl October 23rd 2008
Sorting the Reads
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Manchester University 41TBviewsPublished: November 21st 2008
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drbexl October 8th 2008
Caught you! Europe - United Kingdom - England - West Midlands - Cradley Requested that I remove the main photo, so I have, though I liked it :-)
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