Blogs from England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 1878

First, being English and all i'd like to complain about the weather! ITS BLOODY FREEZING!!!!!!! I thought La Paz was cold, but this is just stupid. I really had forgotten how bad England was during the wintertime. My hands (surely literally) froze three times today! THREE TIMES!!! Well, if you didn't know already, i'm back home in the UK for a short holiday and a fix if Branston Pickle (chunky as the new squirty smooth ones defeat the whole point of true Branston). After a 'delightful' 32 hour journey to Lima from La Paz i had another seven or so hours to wait for my flight home - via Canada - then seven more in Toronto for my connecting flight - sooooo after two and a half days and much boredom after leaving Bolivia i get ... read more

Well, at the suggestion of many, including my kids, I've decided to do the right thing and put my ramblings in a travel blog. Hope you find this more useful than my filling your emailer with all those messages and photos. Feel free to respond within this blog without giving away any personally identifying information and others can benefit from your comments. Well here goes. Day 16, 1-1-2007, Monday, LAST DAY Well, as anticipated, we lugged our luggage down the street and got on the bus to Victoria Station. The bus driver, though, refused to to anywhere until I gave him more than a pound for each of us. It seems the fare went up to a pound and a half. Luckily, I had the coins. I guess I didn't look trustworthy when I told him ... read more

A Festivus for the Rest of us! Bagels; NO, Festivus; YES! For those of you not familiar with the non-denominational Festivus holiday made famous through Seinfeld I suggest you do some reading up at; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus Since Richard arrived in London on December 23rd it seemed fitting that we would celebrate his arrival in true Festivus spirit. After meeting him at the airport we whisked him off to a reunion Festivus feast at Wagamama's care of Craigs generousity. After dinner we sat down to air our grievances with each other, and this went surprisingly well then the real fun started, the Feats of Strength. Feat 1: Malteser Machine Gunning Who could eat 10 Maltesers one at a time the fastest. Surprise winner; Josh after Craig was DSQ'd for dropping a 'teser Feat 2: Weight Holding Who could ... read more

We had a comfortable flight, in spite of the dire predictions broadcast back home prior to our takeoff. Airports were reported to be shutting down in England and Germany due to heavy fog. The view from the plane as we circled to land at Gatwick was clear enough to see the plots of land bordered by hedgerows. What was all the fuss about we wondered? We made our way quickly through the crowds at the train station in the airport and picked up our prepaid tickets to Scotland by rail. Most people managed to move only a few feet forward in the time it took Edward and I to snake through an unbelievable crowd of people standing elbow-to-elbow and cheek-to-cheek. It reminded me of the time we managed to by-pass a crowd of people a ... read more

A pretty busy week at work, ended early on Friday afternoon thanks to Dave (my boss) wanting to have a few beers at 1pm. We went and found a pub down the road and had a meal and a few quiets, well they were quiet until Dave decided to get into the swing of things by buying more and more beers and shots of sambuca. 5 pints and 2 shots later I had to get the train back to my flat, pack my bags and get on the train for the Lakes District. I thought I had done well, until I arrived in Barrow five hours later and unpacked to find that I had 2 pairs of undies, 2 t-shirts and about 12 pairs of socks to last me 5 days. Saturday I went for a ... read more