Blogs from West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 27

caught the bus up to Birmingham again!! it was delayed a bit because of some crash on the other side of the road. i met George at the station and we drove back to Fazely. it was great to catch up with George, Sandra and Greg again. went out with Greg and his mates to the movies and then to the pub! the simpsons movie is even funnier when you can actually read the subtitles!!!!! (for the animals speaking etc) there is a first for everything...i tried Fosters. yes i'm not proud of it but i had to discern why all foreigners think we drink the stuff (did you know it is brewed in scotland, well the uk version is anyway). it was surprisingly ok...so i had another one. cricket!!!! went to the cricket to watch ... read more

Once again I find myself here wanting to share with you all the magical and wonderful things that have been going on with us but I have very little to tell you. I'm sure you will all have heard about the crappy weather we've been having lately - I'm talking virtually non-stop rain for the last fortnight. Thankfully, we aren't living in a flood-risk area so we haven't been too affected by it except for being stuck indoors even more than necessary plus my Hello Kitty umbrella that Glynn bought me in Hong Kong bit the dust after a very wet and windy walk to the gym earlier this week :-( We've had no news yet about our New Zealand application, which is a pity as we're longing to get moving so we can settle down ... read more

we went up to birmiingham to catch up with some friends that we made at bristol...was a really good time...... read more

UntitledOk, so I havent started actually travelling yet, but I have decided to start early, because I'm so damn excited! So I'm in lovely Birmingham, where I go to uni, just tying up some loose ends before I set off into the mists of adventure that will be my year abroad! I go first to Salamanca in Spain - not sure of the exact date yet, because of the stunningly appauling organisation of the Year Abroad Office at Salamanca (could also have had something to do with me not sending the right form in soon enough), but mid September is about right. Then onto Augsburg, near Munich in Germany in about mid February (again, not sure of the date, and thats probably down to how much attention I'm paying to Salamanca - im bricking it, seeing ... read more

Here's a quick link to the Elephant Project @ The Forever Elephant Camp we will be working at in Thailand for a month.... ForeverElephantCamp You can just picture Hels mucking out the elephants in her high heels can't you : ) Also here's a map of our basic route, we hope to include Laos, Vietnam and maybe even the Phillipines as well.... OurRoute... read more