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Europe » United Kingdom » England » Essex » Billericay June 14th 2010

I'm on my third day of my forty day and forty night adventure. Far from being a self impose exile, my journey so far has been one of planes, trains and automobiles - lots of sitting down, a bit of dribbling, quite a few movies and a lot of fairly uninspired airline catering. Aside from catching up with the latest movies, breathing in a lot of recycled air, giggling as the man in business class changes into his PJs, resisting the urge to slap the stupid whinging woman across isle, gagging as some heinous individual farts in my vicinity in the immigration queue, acting confused while not certain as to whether I'm on the Heathrow Express platform or the District Line and generally being a little tired at the end of 30 hours travel, one does ... read more
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Europe » United Kingdom » England » Essex » Braintree June 3rd 2010

Being Home!! Home is where the heart is. Or so the saying goes. But after a perfectly good flight, on a perfectly good airline, with a perfectly good travelling companion, the heart isn't too sure where it belongs. A clear day and large airplane windows brings perfect views of Southend, Essex and London. Arriving at Heathrow, the arduous walk to Passport Control allows us to contemplate our lives past customs. A reality beckons, one that neither of us are prepared for and one we are not the least bit interested in. Our arrival at Heathrow was far more low key than our send off 119 days later. Nevertheless, our homecoming was greeted with excitement (By Mummy Lesley and Mummy Rachel). As we walked through the arrivals hall to our Mum's reality stuck Chris like a ... read more
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Europe » United Kingdom » England » Essex » Chelmsford May 21st 2010

It’s hard to believe an awesome year is over and no doubt I’ll be hit by frequent feelings of missing Hong Kong and nostalgia in the coming months. There are a lot of things that have happened since my initial rush of entries at the start of the year and from the comfort of my home in Chelmsford I’m thinking it’s a good idea to highlight the best and worst parts about Hong Kong, and going on exchange in general. The Good A pass/fail year - This applies to all exchange placements and not just Hong Kong, but it’s been delightful to have an easy year again with the pressure off. You can go out 2 or 3 times a week and miss days of university to travel with no real fear of the consequences. Since ... read more
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Europe » United Kingdom » England » Essex » Harlow April 20th 2010

Tuesday 20.4.2010 day 188 The good news is we can get out of the UK the bad news it is not for 16 days First thing today we extended out hotel for another night and extended our car hire for another week. We took a drive around the area we went to a little sea side town and had some hot chips but the sea. Then we drive to Colchester the oldest town in England. When we got home we managed to get hold of our airline and the first flight to Canada that they could book us on was the 6th of May in 16 days time. So at least we have a date. The problem is that means that we cannot get to the 2 weeks of accommodation that we had booked in Canada. ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Essex » Southend-on-Sea April 5th 2010

I’ve now packed up work and I was in full preparation for a boot sale filled weekend. For those in the USA boot sales are a little like yard sales, we drive our cars in convoy at 5:30am to a large field unpack our boots and sell out wares from any old table or rail we can lay our hands on. It’s usually freezing cold too so we hop from one foot to another whilst attempting to smile and negotiate a decent price for a CD we’ve already attempted to sell on Ebay twice. As it happens a few drinks in the pub on Thursday afternoon to bid farewell to my cracking colleagues actually ended up with me drinking far too much wine, falling through the door totally drunk to the point where my husband put ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Essex April 3rd 2010

Good Friday went to Audley End House, Thaxted and Finchingfield, places I'd not been to before!... read more
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Europe » United Kingdom » England » Essex » Southend-on-Sea March 29th 2010

Doesn't time fly?! I always thought when i was younger making that statement was a sign of getting old but looking back Christmas seems just like yesterday which sounds even more cliché. My diary is full of lunches, dinners, drinks and reminders to see, eat with, call and e-mail friends prior to our leaving date which catch me unawares even if they have been in there for months. Recently the Brides (three wonderful ladies who all got married within the same year as me) took a trip to London. For the first time ever I actually did something in London other than shopped! Mark and i are living in what can only be described as a pigsty. I've never seen our house look so terrible it's like in one of those programmes you watch on the ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Essex » Southend-on-Sea February 24th 2010

So Sunday 7th Feb we got up early to leave Phuket, now we hadn't actually planned any transport back to Bangkok as the agency bus ticket prices were ridiculous so we decided to just go to the bus station ourselves and hope for the best, which worked! Got tickets for a 15 hour bus ride to Bangkok for under £10 each! Bus left around lunchtime , journey was ok, air conditioning broke for a while which wasn't pleasant, but we managed to sleep for a few hours before arriving in Bangkok around 3am! Jumped straight into a taxi back to the backpacker district of Ko San Road where we decided to get a hotel room for a few more hours sleep, found one for about £4 a night, was actually one we looked at when we ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Essex » Braintree February 3rd 2010

Here you go Alan! Today is the day of our departure and Fay wanted to show you how ridiculous we look with our backpacks on!... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Essex » Braintree January 21st 2010

Before Trip - Two weeks to go! Hello everyone And welcome to our inagural travel blog entry. First of all we would like to thank Mel and Jez for giving us the idea for a Travel Blog in the first place - we hope to make ours as entertaining as yours were! There are less than two weeks left now before our 4 month adventure begins and things are begining to get very exciting and slightly nervy! Whilst worrying is has always been my forte', Fay, my calming influence, is also begining to worry about things like: Will the Humidity make me look like Diana Ross?! How will i cope without straighteners?! Will I be wearing the same clothes in all my photos? Whilst my worries are more aligned to - Do we have the ... read more




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