Before my Europe adventure I still had three days of work left. They flew by. On the Monday after work I was surprised to find my mate Jez sitting in my lounge. Somehow I had mistaken the dates and thought he was arriving the following night. Thankfully my flatmates were trusting and let him in. For my last day of work my team went out to lunch. I really enjoyed my time with RBS. I had a great team who were both hard working yet easy to get along with. Plus most of them were Arsenal supporters, only one fancied those [View Full Entry]

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Just hours after arriving back from Croatia I had gathered my football gear and headed to Battersea park where a cup semi final awaited. Unfortunately we had drawn the top team from the division above us, so we were going to be in for a tough match. The weather was scorching, hotter than anything I experienced in Croatia. Nerves were high too, well as high as you could expect for a team that usually turns up 10 minutes before the match. We donned our striking (and for most of us rather tight) purple kit and headed out for a warm up. [View Full Entry]

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Some of the crew had signed up to do rafting early in the morning. Nic and I were quite glad that we had made the decision not to as we were a tad seedy. We had a bit of a sleep in and strolled down to the beach and munched on crisps for breakfast. Shawn and Ami were there too and had opted for an ice-cream breakfast. When everyone was back we set off for Split our final destination. We stopped off for a swim and jumped off the roof a fair bit seeing as it was to be our last [View Full Entry]

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We woke for breakfast and were told that Teddy had accompanied Ami for a late night swim. Ami had a fear for swimming in the sea so after a few drinks built up some dutch courage and decided swimming would be a good idea. Well, I think it was going ok for her until she had to get out. Two words “sea urchins”, adding a third "ouch". One place where there were no sea urchins is Zlatini Rat, Croatia’s nicest sand spit. That was our destination for the morning swim, it was a cracking day so the water was amazing and [View Full Entry]

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Everyone seemed to have a bit more spring in their step due to a quiet night. A short time after breakfast everyone was up on deck sweltering in the roasting sun. We were relieved when we pulled into a beautiful bay with turquoise water and dropped anchor. I think almost everyone jumped in including the chef who screamed in mid air on his way in. The sandy beach looked quite inviting so Claire, Nic and I swam on in. There was a bit of a hill and we were curious what the view would be like from the top. A little [View Full Entry]

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I woke to what I thought was the breakfast bell, I was amazed I had made it up, shortly after I realised that it was actually the lunch bell! Apparently only three people had made it to breakfast. Nathan rolled into the dining area looking a little worse for ware, I think it was seasickness although it could have been the sh*tload of beers and shots from the night before. Claire, who was rooming with him told us how he had been felling a little seedy before bed so grabbed the closest thing and puked into it. It just happened to [View Full Entry]

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This was one of the few days that we woke for breakfast, which may have been a mistake as shortly afterwards it was decided that we’d have a swimming stop. I disregarded the no swimming for 30 minutes after eating rule, I know I’m a rebel. Nic and I decided to swim toward the shore of an island. We had been warned about sea urchins, which are black spiky things that are common near the shore. Luckily we had been warned because they were everywhere, along with these weird red golf ball sized blobs on the rocks, not to sure what [View Full Entry]

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Nothing cures a hangover like a swim, it’s even better when it’s in the Adriatic sae between some beautiful Dalmatian islands. It was a tad ‘fresh’ but after a while you became acclimatised or numb, one of the two. We quickly learnt that it was great fun to jump off the roof of the ship and plunge into the sea, Scott was bombing in on his back, getting some good splash height, I think if I had tried I would have belly flopped and bought up last nights dinner for fish food. Maria and Josh, a Canadian couple, had a great [View Full Entry]

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After a long, cold winter Nicola and I decided to treat ourselves with a holiday to somewhere warm. We were tossing up between Croatia and Greece, and ended up going for Croatia because owe found better flights, by better I really mean cheaper. Once we’d book our flights we had to decide on which travel company we were going to use. Thankfully we chose Busabout because they were amazing. The only hitch with our flight was that it was at a ridiculously early time and we also had to make our way to the airport via bus and then train. So [View Full Entry]

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Being greedy we thought one going away party wasn’t enough so we had another (well another few actually). Our first was a trip to Thorpe park, which is a theme park on the outskirts of London. This was a smaller affair with just my flatmates, Jaimee and Joel (Nadine you pretty much were our 8th flat mate). It was a rather miserable day weather-wise and I was nursing a bit of a hangover from a co-worker Angela’s leaving drinks the night before. I had to put that on hold though as we were on a rollercoaster within minutes of entering the [View Full Entry]

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