Blogs from Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe

so not written in a while, been really busy with uni work, just got a fantastic work placement with a top fuel drag racing team, going to visit them in easter, will upload some pics of last years racing soon, cant wait. the weather was amazing last year! and i am now in a band, im the guitarsist even tho ive mainly learnt bass, but its punk music we will be playing so nobody will notice that i cant actually play... (in the words of sid vicious, "you pick a chord and go twang")... read more

I am leaving for my round the world trip in 12 days, so I thought I would start an online blog so that my friends and family at home can follow my trip! All flights and major transportation are now organised as well as a few places of accommodation and I am starting to feel very excited! The next 12 days should go very quick as I will be rather busy seeing you all before I go :)... read more

so went for an optothomolgy appointment yesterday, (posh eye test) and it was the usual of the doctor looking at my eyes etc, then he puts some drops in my eyes so he can look at the back of my eyes, he then tells me to sit down and wait 15 mins. and slowly but surely as i was waiting my eyesight went blurrier and blurrier til i couldnt actually see anything, anyway he said it all looked ok, but i then had to walk to town, which was, erm, interesting, my pupils where the size of dinner plates which is quite wierd for me considering they are usually tiny!!!! they stayed like it for about 7 hours!!... read more

yeah i thought to myself this morning..... i will walk to uni in ten when the rain calms down.... ten mins later...... the rain turned into a monsoon, so i walked for an hour in heavy rain and gail force wind, and i have no money to buy any food =( that will do for today...... read more

Thanks to Uncle Mark and Ocky White travel - We have our flights and car hire booked! Day 1 - 8th March 2012 LHR to New York JFK Day 1 - 4 In New York Day 5 - 12th March 2012 New York JFK to Washington Dulles Day 5 - 9 In Washington Day 9 leaving Washington by car to Winchester Day 10 Winchester to Clarksburg Day 11 Clarksburg to Athens Day 12 Athens to Cincinnati Day 13 Cincinnati to Louisville Day 14 Louisville to St Louis Day 15 St Louis (Rest Day) Day 16 St Louis to Columbia Day 17 Columbia to Kansas City Day 18 Kansas City Day 19 Kansas City to Hutchinson Day 20 Hutchinson to Dodge City Day 21 Dodge City to Garden City Day 22 Garden City to Pueblo Day 23 ... read more

Thanks to Uncle Mark and Ocky White travel - We have our flights and car hire booked! Day 1 - 8th March 2012 LHR to New York JFK Day 1 - 4 In New York Day 5 - 12th March 2012 New York JFK to Washington Dulles Day 5 - 9 In Washington Day 9 leaving Washington by car to Winchester Day 10 Winchester to Clarksburg Day 11 Clarksburg to Athens Day 12 Athens to Cincinnati Day 13 Cincinnati to Louisville Day 14 Louisville to St Louis Day 15 St Louis (Rest Day) Day 16 St Louis to Columbia Day 17 Columbia to Kansas City Day 18 Kansas City Day 19 Kansas City to Hutchinson Day 20 Hutchinson to Dodge City Day 21 Dodge City to Garden City Day 22 Garden City to Pueblo Day 23 ... read more

so ive started to learn to drive so i can have road trip accross europe, thing is ive been riding motorbikes and bicycles for years, so i have some pretty bad habits when im driving. not so bad habits as that i lean round corners...... although.... maybe i do... but i do scare the living daylights out of my instructor everytime i decide i want to pass a parked car, i seem to have no sense of how wide the car is, i either think its the width of a hummer/lorry or i think its the width of a bike... ive only mounted the curb twice!!! but yeah back to the road trip idea, i want to drive and my fiance wants to go to balognea (how ever its spelt) to go to an art thing, ... read more

Website set up, now we just have to book our flights.... read more

so... here starts my travel blog(s)(ii) not sure how that plural works really..... first things first, excuse the terrible grammar and spelling im dyslexic and im using a computer that thinks in norwegian åøæøææø ... read more