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Having been back in Stockholm for less than 2 weeks, I found myself back on the BA779 headed for Heathrow en route to the (almost) annual family weekend. This year there was extra cause for celebration as my cousin Neal turned 40! Congratulations old man In trying to avoid the logistical nightmare that was getting from Heathrow to a hotel outside Maidstone in under 3 hours I'd hired a car, so off I trotted to the pick-up point... To be told to pick a car, any car, in zones A or B! Which I thought was fantastic un [View Full Entry]

ClareJ76 - Clare | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 21st 2009 | 21 Views | [diary=438570]

Mark and Diane
Mum with glass in hand...
Dad with glass in hand... wonder where I get it from?!

Sitting in the departure lounge at Barcelona airport I carefully and patiently unravelled the skin of my clementine. I have become quite the master of the single peel/combined twirl pirouette technique - Fruit in one hand, thumb making it’s away around it anti-clockwise as the turning fruit spins in my hand in a clockwise direction. If clementine peeling was a sport, I would be high up in its rankings! It had just been announced that the flight to London would be delayed for 90 minutes; this gave me an additional hour to sit and twiddle my thumbs (or peel and eat [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 14th 2008 | 24 Views | [diary=345060]

Adios!

A terrific way to continue our journey through the history of England was to see Leeds Castle. [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 28th 2008 | 23 Views | [diary=339408]

Other Canadian Guests
The gatehouse
Castle Guests

I have landed in London after an energy-sapping flight with Etihad Airways. I'm not sure I would fly with this airline again having endured 25 hours of poor quality food, a malfunctioning entertainment system and a general lack of service. There is a massive difference in quality between Etihad and Emirates (the airline I flew with last year). I get the impression that Etihad do things on the cheap (one flight attendant wheeling the trolley and serving) as opposed to two on Emirates (and most other airlines). The entertainment system became a focal point of my frustration. Constant 'reboots [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 12th 2008 | 45 Views | [diary=333406]


Leaving Guatemala. Well I'm back in England for a brief interlude before hoping off again but I just wanted to write one more blog to finish my trip off in Guatemala. I can't quite believe I've been away for six weeks, in one way the time has flown and at other times I felt like I had been on the project for months rather than weeks...in a good way! I have loved it and felt like I could have kept going for a lot longer,time permitting. Physically it was challenging but I loved it and was able to cope quite [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 21st 2008 | 126 Views | [diary=312208]

the last family
shy..
Kevin!

By rachgre
July 6th 2008
First Week Europe » United Kingdom » England » Kent » Maidstone
Hello again! So I've been here a week now, and slowly finding my way around. It rained for the first time today despite it being forecast since Friday, so that's pretty good going really! With having weekends off, I decided to go on a little explore yesterday. I found Maidstone Millenium River Park which runs for 10km up the river Medway (which runs through Maidstone). There are lots of churches around that area, and there are quite a lot of interesting things around the town centre too. I took a few photos. I tried to upload them to Facebook but only [View Full Entry]

rachgre - Rachel Grennell | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 6th 2008 | 20 Views | [diary=296177]

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Welcome to the first of my Maidstone blogs! I know a lot of you enjoyed my blogs from France and Italy, so to give myself something to do, and to keep in touch with you all, I’ve decided to start again. I’ve decided just to publish my blog in the same place as before, so that if any of you want to reread any of the France and Italy craziness, you can! So, yesterday, after around 6 or 7 hours driving, I arrived in Maidstone. It was a pretty good drive actually. I followed my dad down because he works nearby [View Full Entry]

rachgre - Rachel Grennell | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 1st 2008 | 15 Views | [diary=294026]


Well, only a few days left at work, and already its cost me a small fortune in cakes. I have to say good bye to everyone in person where practicle, it feels better that way, and there may be 2 persons who I will not see on our return, Avtar is one of them. Good luck in your retirement. My bag is packed and repacked, still trying to find that elusive 12 kilos. Although we can carry 46 kilos each in 2 bags, I am not that inclined to want to be a cripple so early into the trip. Luv ya. [View Full Entry]

dinosontour - Kev and Wendy | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 2nd 2008 | 41 Views | [diary=282891]


Hi everyone, Well, we have nothing to tell really this Month we are trying to keep a low profile!!!! A bit of mad news my picture with Jhonny Vegas got on the London Lite this is a free daily paper that circulates all over London City so that was funny and we finally went to the Theatre we saw Stomp it was very good it was all based on making Music from everyday sounds its well worth a look, also we had a few days off this month and we just wanted to relax and chill.we went down the road to [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 19th 2008 | 50 Views | [diary=268015]

London Lite
Leeds castle
A bit of colour

Hey you all, this is really just a test blog to see if it works! But for those that came out to see us off on Saturday we just wanted to say thank you. We both had a very good night, but we are still in denial that it is actually happening!!!! We have pretty much got things sorted now so just got to pack and get to the airport at the right time (Ross and me will both be checking flight times from now on!) So the next time we shall be blogging so to speak will be from America. [View Full Entry]

KarenandRoss - Karen J and Ross H | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: January 14th 2008 | 100 Views | [diary=235920]



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