Blogs from England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 1721

The Isle of Wight Festival is a three day camping festival located funnily enough in the Isle of Wight. This was my first trip to IoW and we picked the highlight of the summer weather to spend it there. It was a tube / train / hovercraft / bus trip there which took about 3hours all up from home to campsite. The hovercraft was great. I'd never been on one before and it's quite freaky. It's not really that noisy and it was a smooth trip, right from the sandy shores of Portsmouth to Ryde on Isle of Wight. Have to admit though, I spent the whole trip humming 'I've got a ticket to Ryde' It was a fairly painless trip even though we were lugging a fair amount of luggage. There were 3 of us: ... read more

Well not much needs to be said really: There were people There were drinks There were pubs There was partying There was drunkeness There was debauchary Pretty much in that order Here is a random sample of my many photos - if you have some you'd like to share please email them through! Many thanks to those that came, wouldnt have been a party without you! Look forward to seeing you at the next flat party!... read more

Und schon wieder sind 2 Wochen seit dem letzten Eintrag vergangen. Da wir ja in der Gegenwart leben, nur ein kurzer Kommentar zu den Fantas: richtig gut gewesen. Allein schon wegen der Meisterschaft und der Tatsache, dass sie sich einen abgerungen haben Englisch zu sprechen - wo doch eh 80% der Personen im Zuschauerraum deutsche Praktikanten, Ex Pats oder sonst wie wichtige Leute mit Auftragsort London waren. Demnach war die Frage eines SWR1-Mitarbeiters an einen unserer Kollegen von hier derart unangebracht, dass wir alle grinsen mussten: Ob er denn extra nach London gejettet sei um besagte Band zu sehen? Da ich die Antwort nicht wirklich mitgekriegt hab, hoff ich mal, dass er eiskalt ja gesagt hat. So, und dann hab ich ja ueber Pfingsten Besuch aus Deutschland bekommen, und das englische Wetter hat sich auch ... read more

off to london very early friday morning only staying for the weekend - just in case i get a work offer for monday, still 3 days in the big smoke shoud be fun, hope to catch up with a few ex-mallies friends as well lyz and lee ann are taking my out clubbing sat nite, should be fun and it hopefully ends up messy vaughan and lucy have kindly offered me the couch which leaves me more drinking money :-) a big good luck and well done to maria - last day tomorrow! arghhhhh!!! will have a drink (or two or three) to celebrate for you tomorrow night :-) havent been up to much else, signed up with a second temp agency today, gotten back into my running, been doing some sun bathing (temps have ... read more

Thursday I woke up at 6:30am, pushed my snooze button, finally arose at 6:40am, had a quick shower, realized it was 6:50 and sprinted to the train station. Thankfully I am quick and the train didn’t leave early. Where was I going? Manchester. Old Trafford more precisely. There was 6 of us in total. Stuey started drinking there and then, a few of us had a snooze, and we arrived into Manchester around 9:30. It was freezing, thankfully I had a change of clothes, none of the others did they were all in shorts and t-shirts and frigid. After a feed of McDonalds we rocked up at the ground and got our seats. The West Indies were doing their fielding drills right in front of us so that was good to watch. England won the toss ... read more

Madam Tusauds We used the same ticket that we used the day before for the hop on hop off bus tour to take us to madam tusauds. the museum was a lot different to what i was expecting, i assumed that it would be different levels (everything i london is mulit-storey) of wax models but it was really fun. there were wax figures of the stars, my fav were arnie, nick cage and justin timberlake...of course i've got pictures of all these stars for u all to see! i just need to learn how to upload these pics!! the musem went into the chamber of horrors, which explained the history of serial killers and torcher measures that were used in london. it was great! me and my evil mind! the museum ended with a ride. ... read more