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By Chris and Liam
August 24th 2006

Doing one next week

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Caribbean Night
Chris (tallest), Liam (smallest) and the "mates" they left behind!

Alright everyone. This is really just a test run to see if it works before we go so dont expect any stories yet. We dont even know how to get pics on the bugger yet! We've got everything sorted so its just a case of saying bye to you lot and getting on the plane. The next entry will probably be from the Big Apple and failing that some other place in the U.S cos we pretty much have no specific route after New York! Have a bloody 'ansome year and we hope you enjoy reading the online journal we keep. [View Full Entry]

By RamblingRuggerPlayer
August 24th 2006

Greeting from Penzance and St Michaels Mound

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On the Beach in front of St. Michaels Mound
Here is Felicia standing in front of St. Michaels Mound. Its low tide and we could walk across quite safely. However at hide tide the area where she would be standing would be 10ft under water.

Well Felicia and I are really into the road trip now and let me tell all of you back in the USA (and even RSA), be so extremely grateful. Gas over here is a mere $7.20 a gallon and it cost us an over 40 pounds to fill our gas tank (approx. 40 liter tank = approx.10 gallon tank). And this little Fiat Punto, with its littlw 1.2 liter engine, as all the power of a ladies wristwatch. With my road trip later in my vacation, air travel really does not look all that bad right now (or the train). Other [View Full Entry]

By lisamartin
August 16th 2006

Tears for fears

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Bedruthan Steps
Bedruthan Steps

Can't really remember much about what I have done over the last few days - partly cos I'm writing this retrospectively and it's actually December, but mostly because of one of two things: 1) I've been crying a lot about having to leave Matt 2) I've been absolutely wankered. The other day we all went to Bedruthan Steps which is a beach near Newquay with some amazing rock formations. When the tide is in it's really dangerous - there is a mean current and the rocks are really sharp! I know cos I impaled my finger on one! Me and Matt [View Full Entry]

By lisamartin
August 13th 2006

No ropes I tell you!

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Me climbing
Don't let the smile fool you! I'm crying inside!

Me and Helen had another girl's day out the other day - we decided to walk from Sennen Cove to Land's End. We parked up in Sennen Cove and we had barely left when Helen suggested that we do a spot of rock climbing - "nothing too difficult, just a gentle scramble" she said! Now, Helen is ex-Army, has done over 80 skydives and regularly climbs in the Peak district. Me, I rarely climb stairs. The way down wasn't too bad - I could step down most of it and jumped the rest. We admired the waves crashing on the rocks [View Full Entry]

By lisamartin
August 10th 2006

Posh dinners and the garden of Eden

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Me and the biomes
Me celebrating the fact that we finally got to the Eden Project!

Tuesday: Me and Helen went to Hawker's Cove for a few hours and sunbathed. When we got back, despite the fact that we had been at the beach all day, the boys decided that now they wanted to go to the beach for a surf! We let them get on with it and me and Helen went into Padstow in search of a restaurant for dinner. We thought we would boycott Rick Stein's "Seafood" restaurant since he had been in the local papers recently after his wife caught him having an affair or something! We ended up at St. Petroc's Bistro [View Full Entry]

By Ollie Tong
August 7th 2006

Newquay 6/7th August 2006

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road trip !!!!

Newquay 6/7th August 2006 The place - 7/10 The Nightlife - 7/10 local ladies - 5/10 Tune of the trip - Fedde Le Grand - Hands up for Detroit After a shit night out in Stevenage and a really bad so called house party and a long walk home ,, me and Trev decided to drive to Newquay the morning,,, to see Dave Pearces radio 1 dance anthems live from the beach and then in Berties night club,, Woke up at 9 and got all the stuff together , Trev picked me up at 11 and he drove us to newquay [View Full Entry]

By lisamartin
August 7th 2006

Girlie chats

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Had a really nice girlie day today with Helen. Nothing special, in fact pretty mundane, but just nice to hang out on a summers day in Cornwall. We went to the launderette and did a mammoth amount of everyone's washing, which we later hung up on every available guyrope in sight! The guys all went out for a surf so me and Helen just hung out really! Had some wine in the evening and around 10pm ish the boys came back and we all just chilled out in the ger. Nice. [View Full Entry]

By lisamartin
August 6th 2006

Trevisker massive hit the beach!

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Trevisker Massive!
The Trevisker Massive at Booby's Bay

Really great day at the beach! Matt and I went off to Wadebridge to see if the internet cafe was open so he could look for more cars - it wasn't so we drove to Booby's Bay to meet the others. The boys surfed most of the day and the girls sunbathed - bliss! When the boys had done surfing we played some ball games - I'm absolutely crap by the way! - but we had a really nice time! [View Full Entry]

By lisamartin
August 5th 2006

The most beautiful sunset

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Me and Dave at Trevose
HOW beautiful is this picture?? Wish I had taken it but I can't take the credit - it's Helen's. Thanks!

Got up late yesterday and lazed around chatting with Helen. We went to Trevone beach for the afternoon - wasn't very sunny and even started raining but we still managed to get a little bit sunburnt! Later, me, Helen, Dave, Liam and Matt 2 went to Trevose Head to watch the sunset - beautiful! We even did a spot of impromptu rock-climbing while we were there! Got back and had a couple of glasses of wine at Paula's, then Matt went all hyper and suggested we go and gatecrash the Padstow Maize Maze (shhh..don't tell Charlie!). Had great fun bouncing on [View Full Entry]

By lisamartin
August 3rd 2006

Beetle run

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Matt was supposed to go out for the day with his parents but he had an argument with them and they went off out without him. It was his fault really. He wasn't ready when they came to pick him up (even though they told him what time they'd be there) so he asked them to come back in an hour, which they did, and he still wasn't ready. Instead, he spent the day tinkering with Vicky's car and I went into Padstow to use the internet and get some money out to pay for the campsite. Queue at the Tourist [View Full Entry]

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