Blogs from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 2

This past weekend, I travelled to Peterborough for a host-family stay. It was my first train experience, and it did not start well. A few of us (IFSA-Butler students) missed the train because of a ridiculous demand for buses from UEA to Norwich city center on Friday afternoon. It was really hectic and stressful; our group got split up because of the crowd. Five people in our group were able to squeeze onto a couple of earlier buses and barely caught the train. The rest of us waited about 45 minutes, watched at least five buses pass our stop because they were already full of people, and finally caught a bus only to miss our train by three minutes. It really wouldn’t have been so bad because there was another train from Norwich to Peterborough just ... read more

Well, another update, had 2 more shots today, and have an appointment at my GP for all the free stuff on wednesday :D Got most of my clothes this weekend, lots of tshirts and shorts with the help of dane, Still trying to sort my bank account (i refuse to pay £20 to send £10 to my aussie bank account), And well, generally excited. Where im actually going depends entirely on how much money i make out there and what im doing once im back, I have even considered doing a "Teach english as a foreign language" course and go and teach english in tokyo for a year, or just go to tokyo over thailand cambodia and vietnam, or stay in australia, Completely up in arms to be honest :) (which my travel doctor loves) Cyas ... read more

Well got my vaccinations sorted today, Have about a million to be done on the NHS on the 7th of August, but they have to charge me and specially order the rabies and hepatitis B ones. Great So ive been advised to book with a place in cambridge which has turned out cheaper funnily enough, £270 overall for 6 injections of rabies and Hep B Im gonna be like a bloody pin cushion!... read more

Hey, my first entry. Thought id keep a blog because: 1) itll keep my parents happy im still alive 2) I can post photos and stuff upto it 3) it'll give me something to do in my spare time. Im off to Australia on the 27th at 22:00 and arrive on the 29th 06:00 (local time) 23 hours of flying, fook! Well excited about it all, got loads of plans , loads of ideas, might stay in oz, might hit up south east asia, all depends how it goes really, Oooh i am excited actually...... read more

I have my ship details now! I'm on the Arcadia (P & O) & I set sail on the 21st May which is a Wednesday. Everyone is really excited for me, & looks forward to where my adventures may take me! I'm hoping to get to Southampton (where I'll be sailing from) for the Tuesday so I'm not rushing about. I've got to email a copy of my american visa & yellow fever jab certificate to my bosses at Harding Bros & they'll tell me more about my ship i.e deck privelleges etc. I'm pretty lucky too because I'm on with a training pal, Andy whose from Scotland. He joined the Arcadiaa few weeks ago so would have done a med cruise before I join. My first cruise will be around the baltic seas (Russia ... read more