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By Timmy P
April 18th 2006

Easter Boys Weekend to the Beach

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Nice views on the road to Newquay

After six months of the freezing winter, and in my whitest state ever, I was totally keen for the beach .............so a boys weekend to Newquay at the South West of England was the call ...... ....... I must admit I was a little ambitious thinking that it would be sunny and warm but we still hit it and was so good to get to the beach. Anyways, our travel and accomodation came in the form of Paul and Daves massive Ford transit..........A few matresses in the back and our accom was sorted........That turned out to be a great move as [View Full Entry]

Wooooo Dude..........they still got flax roofs down here

In fact there was heaps of Old Skool stuff down this way

By Cate and Drew
April 17th 2006

The long trail to the coast

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The magic light at St Ives

'Cornwall is lovely but it is a long way away'. Is the response we got over and over again when we told people how we planned to spend our first English Easter. 'Far away', what are they talking about we thought to ourselves, 'we're from Australia, we know about far away!'. However we did heed our friends advice about how bad the traffic would be on Easter weekend and we were up at the crack of dawn ready to hit the road early after an essential hot cross bun or two. We made it through London and everything was going well [View Full Entry]

Who would have thought this was in England?

Looking back towards Zennor (sounds more like a cartoon character than a town to me!)

By clarkey
April 14th 2006

Cornwall

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Cafe open
Written in the sand, clever!

Easter was fast approaching and I had no plans. So at the last minute I decided to go to Cornwall for four days. London is a great city but you go crazy if you don't get out now and then. And I needed to smell the sea. [View Full Entry]

By libver
April 14th 2006

Is it a pasty or a paaasty?

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Victory
Liz was genuinely surprised to be awarded first prize in IPEC. Liz has gone back into training and is now looking ahead to new challenges including the forthcoming "Pizza off" in Italy and "bratwurst ... [more]

Guest author: Liz Neal How many pasties can YOU eat in a long weekend? That's the question we set out to answer on our Inaugural Pasty Eating Competition (IPEC) in Cornwall. So, on the Easter weekend Lib, Ver, Liz Neal and international competitor all the way from Pakistan, Carla Stenson, packed our expandable-waist pants and headed to St Ives. Highlights/lowlights include: 1) Road trip through narrow winding laneways (2 way apparently) with stone walls masquarading as hedges as we traced Liz's ancestry from Totnes to Mousehole 2) Huge flesh eating seagulls that swooped Libby as she [View Full Entry]

By PASTYandCREAM
October 16th 2005

No.1 : 3 weeks to go......

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ALVIN
who will be missing his mummy..lots x

We are off again for 10 months travelling with no responsibilites, just backpacks and each other, our third RTW trip now. We are leaving on the 6th November 05 and are planning to stay in India for just over 2 months meeting old friends in Mumbai for a few days then onto Kerala and wherever the spirit takes us. Towards the end of January 06 we shall arrive in 'No Worries!' Oz for a 4WD bushwhacking/fishing trip from Perth to Brisbane via Tassie, we have a 6 month visa so time is on our side. We'll then stop off in the [View Full Entry]

By Rickyc
September 12th 2005

United Kingdom!!!

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ric and dan
somewhere in london?? i think it is piccadilly circus?

Hey there to everyone!!! so i am now in the UK partying it up with my big brother Dan and a whole bunch of kiwis!!! i arrived in heathrow from boston at 6 in the morning and met dan upon landing, we took the train to acton and stayed with some waiukuians for a couple of days of hard partying, (seeing as it was my birthday on wednesday) We also did the tourest thing around london and got some great photos!! its was a blast seeing buckingham palace and the big ben....also did a ferry ride along the thames, from london [View Full Entry]

By Brad
September 3rd 2005

euro trippen 2005

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camping in albaferra portugal
just back from morrocco can you tell??

hey im gonna let the photos do the talken [View Full Entry]

By Dan NZ
September 1st 2005

Almost time to move on again..

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Beautiful but packed Towen beach

Kia ora everyone, well my time in Newquay is comming to an end, I finished work with the bungy and road buggys 2 days ago. Was kinda sad to be pulling it all down after such a great 2 months chilling out there in the sun everyday. I was really lucky to get that job and have such a cool crew however im sure my liver doesnt agree. We had a huge weekend for bank holiday when the population boosts up to like 200 thousand from 16 thousand during winter. 12 Kiwi friends from London came down and it was mayhem, [View Full Entry]

Amy checking it out with the island in the background

By Dan NZ
August 9th 2005

Newquay, England....

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Kadia and myself chilling down town Newquay

Hows everyone out there, safe and well I hope, this blog is comming from Newquay which is a very popular beach side town in south west England. I have been here for about 4 weeks now and loving it. Met up with Kadia my bro from NZ and we went in search of a pad, and ended up in this sweet as caravan 15mins walk from town centre. I am really enjoying living in a caravan as it feels like your on holiday all the time. Scored a job on a bungy gig also hiring out road buggys and have a [View Full Entry]

Me kicking back inside the lounge, which is also our bedroom

Other Kiwi Dan checking out a sweet as old big huge bridge just down from the campground

By Bon Bon on the Go Go
August 3rd 2005

A little history lesson.

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At King Arthur's Birthplace
Show me Japanese Style!

King Arthur's Birthplace Re-enactment on the hill. Acting needs some work! Not a very big night out last night. 95% of us were in bed by midnight. Only about a dozen of us made it out last night. As all group dynamics go, especially when we don't really know one another all that well, it took forever to make a decision on where to go. It was narrowed down to the Walkabout or Belushi's which is at our hostel. Some didn't want to pay the £3 cover charge at the Walkabout but Sarah really wanted to go for a taste of [View Full Entry]

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