Blogs from Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 9

Visited Countries Map Start out leaving Vancouver February 17th Landed in England on the 18th and will stay there until the 27th Then off to Sigapore for a total of 50 minutes to transfer flight to Kuala Lumpur. Stay 1 night with some people from my Raleigh program in Kuala Lumpur Next day off to Kota Kinalabu where the program will begin and we will be headed of to Borneo for our 10 week program. Visit http://www.raleighinternational.org/overseas/destinations.html#sabah this website to get the basic information on what this program is all about. Travelling on afterwards. Most likely Thailand first and who knows afterwards. Would like to see Australia, New Zealand too. Then once I've finished traveling around South East Asia or ran out of money I will head back to England. Then finally back home. ... read more

So no, we didn't run out of funds, I discovered that I was expecting a bambino within the first couple of weeks of arriving in Buenos Aires. Not sure what to expect, we headed to the pharmacy to get a home test... and there is no such thing as being a little bit pregnant! I am - we are - happily expecting. So after the positive home test it was a frantic search for an OB-GYN - I was referred to an excellent one called Dr. Pero (accent over the o) and he took very good care of me, the foetus and Sean. Did a blood test to confirm pregnancy had two sonograms one at eight weeks when the foetus was the size of a bean and the other at 12 weeks which as you can ... read more

London second 2 weeks 22 Sept Friday Woke late and arranged some more credit on phone, and found a few great 2nd hand stores, and got some really nice work pants. Other than that i spent a lot of the day walking around the area and just cruising around and semi planning the road trip to Brighton with Coner, Michael and Nick. That night we had a couple drinks at the hotel bar, and struck up a poker game, I was doing great in the beginning then my luck ran out lol about half way through the American girls came through and asked if I could drop off Sam at the airport and Amy at Bournemouth, they asked so nicely we really couldn’t say no. We drank in the bar for quite a while then we ... read more

Went to my cousin Mark's wedding (to Emma) over the weekend on the outskirts of Southampton called Lyndhurst. Travelled down on Friday morning with my brother Brett and enjoyed the two and a half hour journey chatting, catching up and listening to a few 'tunes' en route. Never normally get the opportunity to see him for that amount of time but managed to 'sort a few things out'!! Hotel was a Best Western and we had booked a 'wedding package' which included lunch on Friday, Saturday and Sunday breakfasts. The Hotel also had a swimming pool which my family, Mum and Dad included enjoyed on a number of occasions. I was up at 8 both mornings and had a dip before 'breakie'. The wedding was in Southampton itself and majority of the 'family' were transported by ... read more

Wednesday evening two very excited campers boarded the Pride of Bilbao. As we left port we celebrated with a bottle of bubbly as the English coast disappeared from view. Our cabin was large and comfy. The unexpected bonus on this crossing is the possibility of seeing whales in the Bay of Biscay. As it happened we only saw dolphins. There is plenty of entertainment on board including bars, casino, cinemas and entertainers (including a pianist with a very Suffolk accent). Friday morning we disembarked and headed straight for Bilbao.... read more