Venice, Italy: August 5th - August 6th Day 10 - We had a bit of time to mill around in the morning, so we basically just took it easy & bought a few supplies for our next train trip. We had managed to buy salami, bread & cheese on all our journeys so far, & it was kind of nice to have something to munch on while staring outside (or staring into space)! We boarded our train for Venice & chugged along quite nicely, admiring the water & all the wee islands that Venice is actually made up of. We went across one huge last bridge & suddenly we were there! We arrived in the early evening & it was still quite busy & very sunny - very pleasant! As soon as we came out of ... read more

OK - here I go again. This suddenly seems like much harder work than I had anticipated. By now you will all know that we have lost our digital camera with most images from our trip away to Europe. Unfortunately there was more bad luck to come - while I was away in Russia, Vaughan decided to reformat the computer, which didn’t go exactly as planned, & he ended up wiping the entire thing, including unrecoverable files & other important stuff. This also affected the travel blog I had written about our trip, which I had completed in anticipation of sorting out our photos in the near future. So not only did we lose our digital camera & all computer files, but also the 20 hours worth of work I had put into the travel site! ... read more

Hi guys. I took a few photos on the last day of term at Harlington Community School, & I thought you might like to see a little bit about where I work. You can finally see Lewis (the boy I work with every day), some of the kids in his class, some of the other Learning Support Assistants (LSA's) that I work with (a couple who were leaving for new jobs), & a few of us at the Dog Races, where we went for a staff function after the last day of term. There are also a couple of shots from Thorpe Park (Rollercoaster Park) where we went on a school trip a few weeks earlier - it was an incredibly hot day so the water rides were the best. Click here to check out the ... read more

Hello yet again. Well, we made it back safely from York - it was nice to get away for the Bank Holiday Weekend (3 day weekend), as we didn't go anywhere for the last one. It was a bit of an odd trip really, but we had a great time. On the way up there in the car (Vaughan ditched the work van for a car) we were stuck in traffic for 3 different car accidents - the back-log was massive & we lost about 2 hours overall, arriving in York after 11pm (we didn't leave until after work). It still worked out fine, & it was nice to get away from London. York was another place that makes you wonder why you live in London. I think it has a population of about 180,000, but ... read more

Hi again. Well, we made it back from our trip safely, & not a moment too soon. While we enjoyed ourselves immensely, we also overdid it a bit, & feel like we need a holiday from our holiday this time. Portugal was great though - quite different from Greece (which is all we have to base it on at the moment). People didn't bug you every 5 seconds to eat at their restaurant or buy their market products, which made things much easier, but at the same time, hardly anyone spoke English, & none of the road signs or subway stations had an English equivalent on them to know where you were going, so it was much harder to navigate around. However, the transport systems were still effective & easily enough understood after living in a ... read more