Blogs from Eye, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Europe

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Thursday 1st May Lovely breakfast at 6.50am (UK time, body thinks it's 2.30am!) of a cheese croissant which had clearly been in the hot cupboard for several hours!! Landed safely at 7.35am after circling London about 3 times. Quickly through passport control, wait a while for my bags - starting to think they're not coming, but they arrive (my cheap bag has not endured well, but everything still seems to be in there - I haven't checked for breakages yet... it was marked as fragile, for all the difference that made!). Straight through customs, to find that my Mum had arrived a couple of minutes before (M25 rush hour!)... so we get out of the car park within half-hour and drive to South Mimms Service for a snack before arriving home around 12. Wow, I have ... read more

OK, so I've still not added the text to all my Oak Hall trips - that was a hectic month, good, but hectic! The last 2.5 weeks have disappeared in a whirl of trying to work out what to pack (and more importantly, what not to pack!) within the limits set for certain sectors of the journey (15kg + day-pack), and the recomendations that even if you could, you wouldn't want to carry more... although I don't intend to go as far as the guy on one of the travel forums who cuts the handle off his toothbrush to ensure that he has less weight! The Oak Hall trips, however, have helped give me some idea of what I really do need and, although it's just Europe, given me some more experience of travelling... So, the ... read more

This was a great couple of weeks, as we finally, finally have broadband, and wireless broadband at that, so not quite sure where the weeks disappeared, but lots of 4am finishes as I worked my way through a number of things that had been piling up, and did lots of trip research. Got plenty of time on Facebook which I find great for keeping in touch, and making me feel that I am not entirely isolated in the middle of the country. Asked i-to-i for the monies back, and then came up with my ultimate RTW trip. Decided to go for it, although would be more expensive than anticipated - just means might put the pressure on more to get the next job! Had quite a bit of correspondence with STA in Manchester - Chris is ... read more

A decent stint in Suffolk this time, and moved on with a lot more TEFL work (thanks to Tim/Nat for letting me use their computer, as our phone line started misbehaving whilst I was in London, and still wasn’t fixed when I headed off again). I completed a lot of work on my book chapter - collating all the material into one document under sub-headings, so that I have the basic structure of my chapter in place, although I wouldn’t say that any of it was yet WRITTEN as such! Bank Holiday Monday ended up on a very long cycle ride in pursuit of the Guardian - determined to keep up with the Media pages at the moment… left it a bit late in the day to start looking, but ran it down in Harleston’s garage, ... read more