Blogs from Southampton, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 5

We are making preparations, booking hotels and transport in Honk Kong, Australia and New York. Our broad itinery looks like this 1st March Heathrow to Hong Kong 5th March Hong Kong to Melbourne Australia 7th March Melbourne collect our Camper Van for a two week journey through New South Wales, via the Pacific Highway, Snowy Mountains, and a place called Nowra which is where Clem used to live as a child aged between 4 and 7. 19th March arrive Sydney and deposit camper and collect hire car 20-22nd March Blue Mountains 23rd to 27 fly to Red centre Alice Springs 27 Mar to Darwin and Kakadu via Garn Train 31 Mar fly to Cairns, and onward to Port Douglas, Whitsunday Islands yach trip, Barrier Reef, Gold Coast and onward to Sydney 11 Apr Syndey 13 Apr ... read more

Well, this is it! We are here in Southampton and the dock is in sight. We will be boarding Arcadia in the morning and sail away later in the day. We were too scared to leave anything in the car & we looked a right sight lugging in 3 huge suitcases, two suitbags and a very obvious long white wedding dress bag :-) I wouln't give a hoot if the hire car got stolen, but if it had the wedding dress in it that may have been a bit of an issue - bit of "you cannot be too careful" Anyway just wanted to set this up ready and see how I can send links to all of you who would like to keep an eye on our progress... Hope it proves to be a bit ... read more

Ron was very sad to have to disembark mid morning at Southampton, I think he would have liked to keep sailing back to Australia instead of flying. After picking up our hire car we decided to travel to Heathrow via Lacock which we had heard was a pictureque village and somewhere we could stop for lunch. Lacock Village, dates back to the 13th-century, it has remained largely unchanged over the centuries and has many limewashed, half-timbered and stone houses. During the Middle Ages Lacock became a prosperous and thriving town through its wool industry. The village was well placed as it was on the 'cloth road' from London and the River Avon, which gave access to the sea at Avonmouth near Bristol. The village has been used as a film and television set, notably for the ... read more

Only 4 days left at work and come Saturday evening I will be flying out to Thailand! Stroll on the weekend and best I get packing!... read more

My First Blog Today marks the first day that I decided to stop being lazy and start creating a blog for all my travels onboard the Queen Victoria. So far, I've traveled to several countries in Europe, a few in Asia, and one in Africa (Egypt). I've also been onboard the Queen Mary 2, in fact I started my first contract on the Queen Mary 2 as the Assistant Printer. I am now the Chief Printer on the Queen Victoria and I plan on being here for at least a few years. It's hard to say how amazing traveling is in just a few words, but for now I'll just say, people say that college are the best years of your life, but I think that these will be even better. Nothing beats a clash of ... read more