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Plymouth for the long weekend (Extra long as we take the Wed, Thurs & Friday off) woohoo! Lots of sun and sea! We leave the Midlands on Wednesday around 10am for the 4 - 5 hour journey to Plymouth. An absolutely gorgeous day, which is great on one hand, bad on the other, as the car is not air conditioned. We only have one stop on the way so we can get there as soon as possible. The views on the way down are beautiful English country side. We arrive in Plymouth around 3.30pm to find we are right next to Sainsburys (supermarket) which is a bonus, as we can grab a few things to eat in the hotel. The hotel room is lovely, large room, champange waiting for us, big bathroom, really comfortable bed and ... read more

It's been another long weekend and of course we had to make the most of it, so we headed to Manchester City! We arrive Friday night after a long train ride, changing three times, and because of a delay on one train we missed the next one and ended up being 40mins late. It's all apart of the adventure and joys of public transport. Of course being the long weekend the weather was crap! Lots of rain, wind.... Typical English weather! Our hotel was lovely, straight across the road from the Manchester football stadium and the first thing I noticed was how strong the accents were, just like Coronation street! Saturday the exploring begun after getting directions from the reception staff we made our way to the Tram station, only to find that we had ... read more

Last night it was Kevin's cousin's surprise birthday party that his girlfriend organised. It was a hawaiian theme as you will be able to tell from the pictures! It was such a great night! I think the girls got tipsy alot faster as Hayley made a punch that was going down nicely for most of the girls. I had a glass but didn't like it as much as the others. Birthday boy was totally surprised when he walked in, he thought that he was going out to dinner with Hayley and that all his friends forgot about his birthday. He had no clue! It was great. All the girls were going a little crazy jumping/dancing around the lounge and once the guys had a few drinks they were just the same. We played a few ... read more

The time had come for me to experience my first football match. Leicester city (Kevin's team he supports) vs West Brom. After watching a couple of movies with football hooligans I was a little apprehensive about the crowds and football fans. We arrive at Leicester stadium with hundreds of people walking around in blue, yellow & white Leicester shirts, scarfs, hats, flags everything you could think of. All I could do was stare in amazement trying to taking everything in especially once we had stacked up on supplies (food & drink) and walked into the grounds to take our seat. It was enourmous! People everywhere! we were postioned right behind the goal in the family enclosure, as I didn't want to sit anywhere else for my first game match to Kevin's dismay. It was ten minutes ... read more

The day starts with me travelling to London to meet up with Vicki (New Zealand friend) we are staying near Paddington Station and have plans to join the circle line waitangi day celebrations. The idea behind it is that a whole bunch of New Zealanders that are living in Europe all get together and hop on the circle line (Tube) stopping at every station and getting off to have a drink (basically a pub crawl). Apparently the pubs, tube station and police have caught on to this and pubs are not letting people in, tube stations won't let anyone on and police are everywhere! It was an amazing experience! First of all Vicki and I meet up with two of her friends, Mylka & Rob (couple) at Paddington station, the pub crawl started at 10am but ... read more