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We had an early start this morning so that we could catch the ferry over to the Isle of Wight from Lymington. We were aiming to catch the 10.45am ferry so wanted to arrive in Lymington by about 10.15am. We pulled up at the ferry terminal closer to 10.25am and with no booking we were told to join queue 5 and we would be fitted on the 10.45am ferry if possible. When loading started we inched our way forward to the head of queue 5 and it was looking like we were going to be first on the 11.45am ferry when [View Full Entry]

Trabern - Tracey & Bernie Gaffney | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 27th 2009 | 74 Views | [diary=412939]

Arriving in Yarmouth
Royal Yacht Squadron
Osborne House, East Cowes

Westminster
Westminster
Me taking a picture of myself across the river from Westminster. You can see the necklace I bought at Portobello Road Market.
Hi Everyone! Today is my last day in London. I am taking it easy, in preparation for leaving for Paris tomorrow! I woke up around 9am, ate left over pasta, washed my laundry in the bathroom sink, and walked to the library about 10 blocks from my hostel. I was going to use the day to play on the internet and research more of my trip, but the wi-fi there is only for library members. So I decided I would go see one more museum! The Victoria and Albert museum. Named for its founders Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who from [View Full Entry]

jawilso - Jennifer | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 14th 2009 | 79 Views | [diary=408560]

V & A
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Piano Dress

A group of 4 bikes and a mini rode/drove to the Isle of Wight on Friday morning to spend the bank holiday weekend on the island. We drove all over the island, taking in the beautiful views, riding the chair lift to the beach, visiting the bike and car shows and generally having a laugh. It was tiring but great fun. Suzanne and Jan both went Pillion with Wayne and Chris all around the island. I managed to keep up with the boys most of the time, and my new bike rode really well. [View Full Entry]

scubastella - stella meesters | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 11th 2009 | 17 Views | [diary=396723]

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Trip to Isle of Wight - Friday 1 to Monday 4 May 2009. Headed out at 9.00 am on Friday, Suzanne picked me up in her mini and went to Chris' where the other four were already there. Six of us set off with a few hick up's on the way, ie Wayne's bike cut out, Chris dropped bike whilst pulling onto gravel and Dean's bike totally breaks down and ends up being towed back home, one mile from Southampton port!!! The rest of us went over on the ferry and found our B&B in Sandown, lovely little town and had [View Full Entry]

Bikerspice - JEM | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 12th 2009 | 5 Views | [diary=383323]

Alum Bay
Sandown Pier
All aboard!

Trafalgar Square and Big Ben
Trafalgar Square and Big Ben
Christmas shopping in the cold!
Christmas in the UK is completely different to the beaches, BBQs, sunscreen and ice cream kind of Christmases that we have always known and loved. It is cold and miserable but does its best to get you in the Christmas spirit with the lights, carols, food and parties that you couldn't really avoid even if you wanted to. Christmas time over here is a lot more about Christmas than it is at home, possibly because everyone in Australia is already excited about summer holidays and the great weather and Christmas is just seen as an bonus. An Irish doctor told Lara [View Full Entry]

laandal - Lara and Al | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: January 14th 2009 | 100 Views | [diary=354680]

Al and Lara
Winter Wonderland
Winter Wonderland

Billed with the headliners of Amy Winehouse, Gary Numan and the Human League, the Bestival on the Isle of Wight was a feast of music, fun, rain and mud! MUD - I don't think so! Phew, we missed all that lovely mud; as the family will recall - Lena does not do that! We did not attend the Bestival (far too muddy and cool for us), but we saw the remnants of the Bestival as we waited at Southampton ferry port and watched the bedraggled festival goers with muddy boots, legs, faces etc (you get the picture), trundle off the previous [View Full Entry]

Jetsetters - Lena & Alan | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 13th 2008 | 48 Views | [diary=322683]

IofW
Alan and June (Al's mum)
Alan & June (again)

I started talking to a girl - Emma - through emails, that I met through gapyear.com. She has similar plans to me and wants to travel Thailand, Oz, Fiji and New Zealand. She's wanting to go for longer than I am, and we'll have different timescales/things we want to do for some of the trip, but we started talking about flying out and doing the first bit, mainly Thailand, together. Hopefully we would've picked up confidence by Oz, so we could either travel some of it together if we have the same plans and are getting along, or go seperate ways [View Full Entry]

tvallender - Trudy Vallender | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 23rd 2008 | 16 Views | [diary=315334]


I've been looking at sites such as sta, travelnation and trailfinders, trying to get a rough idea on RTW ticket prices. After looking about I was hoping to probably pay between around £1,000 and £1,500 depending on the route. So I got in contact with travel nation and had a chat on the phone, they seemed really friendly and helpfull which was a good start. Although still undecided on a definate route and it may well change, I wanted a starting point so we discussed the places I'd like to see and the routes available, and so far came up with [View Full Entry]

tvallender - Trudy Vallender | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 10th 2008 | 19 Views | [diary=310473]


Well this is my first ever blog, hello! I thought I would create it to log my plans of travelling and the travel itself, mainly as a reminder to me and to look back on my thoughts and plans, and for those who are interested to read about while I’m away, and sometimes - especially in the planning stages - to just waffle to myself when everyone is sick of hearing about it or not really interested in the first place! I have wanted to travel for a long time, and not knowing anyone who feels the same and not having [View Full Entry]

tvallender - Trudy Vallender | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 9th 2008 | 14 Views | [diary=310184]


Yours Truly
Yours Truly
It's hard to look happier than this!
This is now becoming a bit ridiculous. Every time this summer that I have had an event planned, I wake up to lousy weather. And today, that was no mean feat. The alarm went off at 6.00, so I was at least hoping for the sun. But no, overcast and actually raining. Putting my faith in Poseidon, I donned a bathing suit, a skirt and a golf shirt for the better weather that I knew would eventually come along. Oh yeah, I put a fleece over it all. At 7.30, nine of us all met at the pub (stop it, it [View Full Entry]

Chrisby - Christine Bohner | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 6th 2008 | 59 Views | [diary=308899]

On the Bridge
The Best of the Best
Clippers


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