Well, about time I put in an update. I actually have found time to get away from the hum drum of working life and see a bit more of Europe. Michelle and I decided we should get to France, so booked two weeks off work and set off to see as much of the place as we could in our limited time frame. It started with the Eurostar from London to Paris. What a great way to get to another country, just jump on a train! In France we stayed in a hostel which was about 15mins walk from the Eiffel [View Full Entry]

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Well, finally another chance to put up an entry in my “travel” blog, as I managed to break away from the hum drum of work to chalk up another country; Spain. Actually I’ll start with the latest London news which most (if not all) of you will know which is that Michelle made the trip over and as of the 21st of Jan has joined me here. The last couple of weeks knowing that her arrival was only just around the corner was really tough and the days dragged out for an age, but finally the hour arrived. Michelle had booked [View Full Entry]

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Well it wasn't a white Christmas I'm sad to say, although it was pretty cold! I spent the day at home with my flatties who went and bought a massive amount of food and booze. Actually it was a pretty Christmassy day, we even had a tree! The decorations wern't too flash but seeing pressies all laying there made it feel like a real xmas. I felt a bit bad because I didn't buy anyone anything and suddenly all these presents for me started to appear! We then had food which consisted of a roast chicken, pork (with crackling), beef and [View Full Entry]

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Well it's been a while since I updated, mostly due to laziness and not really having fun news to write about. So I'll try to fill in what I've been doing without being too boring. Right, so my last entry was when I had just got to London, so I'll go from there. I rang up a mate from my old flat and managed to get a room in a place called Stratford, which is in East London and pretty much reknowned for being a shithole where you have to watch yourself walking around at night. I haven't really had any [View Full Entry]

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Well I made it to London OK after a rather major fuck up. I had tickets to London that left from the Polish city of Wroclaw, now I had made a terrible assumption that Wroclaw = Warsaw. Achem. Wrong. So I turned up at Warsaw airport wondering why the hell I couldn't see my flight on the board and sure enough I was in the wrong city entirely. Long story short I managed to buy an EasyJet flight which left only 1 hour later than the one I thought I was supposed to be on. I'm staying with my cousin Sarah [View Full Entry]

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I know now how easy it was for the Germans to get stuck going "shit, it's fucking freezing all of a sudden and we forgot our jackets." A week ago I was going out with a T-Shirt on (although this did get some funny looks and Marina's Dad thinking I was insane) because at 12C it really wasn't all that cold, especially without wind. A week or so later and it's -1 at 11am this morning. Not only that but there is something really cold about the air here, I suppose it must be to do with the humidity or something, [View Full Entry]

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I'm cheating a bit here, because really, I was on the ground in Latvia all of 50 minutes whilst I swapped planes, but it will be a cool one to have on my travelblog map! Ahh, that's about all, I didn't take any photos, I figured you've all seen airports before. But first impressions were good, it was clean, tidy and efficient, and the staff very helpful when I had a query. Probably wont go back though. [View Full Entry]

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Yep, I made it. Actually I'm kind of glad I ended up having to fork out the dough for the flights. Everything I read about the train trip to Belarus talked of problems people had. I just flew in, got my passport stamped and got out! Easy peasy. No difficult visa questions, no nothing. Marina came with a friend of hers to pick me up, it was really great to see her again. As if I wasn't attracting enough attention already for being the obvious westener, Marina then went and screamed loud enough to shatter glass when she saw me. Still, [View Full Entry]

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Damn these german kezboards are annozing. The z and the y are swapped over! Verz annozing and I cant be bothered thinking about it enough to change mz tzping stlze, so deal with it! I dont have much to saz, mostlz because Im sick and I cant reallz be bothered. The train ride from Venice was hell. I had planned on having a quiet last night in Venice but that backfired when two new tour buses came in and decided to have a toga partz. Also Matt decided to have a "champagne off"... Suffice to saz, mz quite night turned into [View Full Entry]

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Venice. Wow. We're staying in a campsite about 20 minutes out of Venice, it's a pretty sweet place. We are staying in a mobile home type room, it's a small room with 3 beds and has it's own bathroom which is actually really nice. The shower is huge and really powerful. The main problem is the bugs! I must have about 30 mossie bites and they're driving me crazy. There's a great pool area too which has been excellent for just lying around on the deskchairs reading, working on the tan and maybe going for a lazy dip in the pool. [View Full Entry]

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