Blogs from United Kingdom, Europe - page 2244

Hı all. Fırstly, I am so very sorry for not wrıtıng anythıng for such a long perıod of tıme. England was hectıc and I was so busy! The flıght to London, stoppıng ın Sıngapore, was dreadful. But I was expectıng that. When I arrıved ın Heathrow aırport on Tues 11th (ıt seems so long ago) the Sınclaırs (who I was stayıng wıth for my fırst 3 nıghts ın England) arranged a car to pıck me up at the aırport and take me to theır home ın Sunnıngdale. I had met Lındsay before but not hıs wıfe Janet. Feelıng a lıttle nervous about ımposıng ın theır home for 3 nıghts ıt was so nıce to get out of the cab wıth a hug from them both. I wıll praıse both Lındsay and Janet ın a lıttle whıle. ... read more

Let me back up to last weekend when Janet and I did London. We bitch slapped London. In one weekend we went to see Phantom of the Opera, Covent Gardens, Leicheter Square and Picadilly Circus, “221b Baker Street,” Westminster, Big Ben, Parliament, rode the London Eye, crossed the Millenium Bridge, saw St. paul and climbed to the very tip top (all 530 life-thratening steps), did Regent St. and Soho, saw Wedding Crashers in Leichester, and ate in China Town. Yes bitches, No cabs. Then my parents cam in Monday and they have been feeding me steak and lobster and I love them. Yesterday, I went to Canterbury with them. That was reallly cool. We got to see the Cathedral where the Thomas a Becket shrine was...the thing that all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales were ... read more

So it's Friday and I don't have class today. Yay! That's usually a sign that I need to go out of town. However, this weekend I will be participating in my first indoor ultimate tourney. It should be really really fun and interesting. I'm hoping to learn lots. Being that I don't have class I had planned on exploring Nott'm a little bit, but my plans were waylaid for several reasons. Mainly because I couldn't find a travel-around-town buddy which is essential and because it started to rain pretty good and exploring outdoor things in the rain is a sure way to getting yourself horribly wet and sick. Not good...thus my exploration of Nott'm has been put temporarily on hold. Instead I tried (somewhat in vain) to finish my part of the lecture presentation that I'm ... read more

A big hello to everyone all over the world wherever you may be. My updating has been a bit on the slow side but as expected I had one hell of a summer. Many of you will already know the stories some of you may not but here is my summer in short. Road Trips Spent alot of my time getting to know the hills and lochs in central scotland. This included a few trips up Ben Ledi, Dumyat, and also a late night hike in the Gargunnock hills when me and my mate went off roading and got lost in the pitch black on a marsh/moor/bog. It was pretty funny and we half expected to have to spend the night on the hill. Luckily found the path - who knows how we lost it in ... read more

Right folks, just a quick entry to make sure the diary system is working ok. Hopefully if you're reading this then it is! The good news is I'm leaving today on the big adventure, the bad news is that I'm apparently going to miss what is being tipped as the coldest British winter in a decade. Imagine how gutted I am! For those who don't know, here's the itinery in brief: 20th October - Manchester to Heathrow to Bangkok 11th November - Singapore to Brisbane 4th January - Sydney to Auckland 29th January - Christchurch to Sydney to Hong Kong 6th Feb - Hong Kong to Heathrow to Manchester Don't forget you can also email me directly on si.rome@hotmail.co.uk. See you all soon! Si... read more

Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night to the terrible feeling that if you don't get to your laptop right now and write about France under the Occupation, you are going to lose the brilliant thesis to your first grad school paper before it ever had a shot to become a paper in the first place? Well, I have, and I decided to go to sleep...so I am not entirely sure what the brilliant thesis is. I do know that I spend the better part of my waking hours thinking about the Second World War, and now it has apparently crept into my sleep. Which leads me to today's list: 8 Symptoms to Diagnose History Overdose: 1.) You roll over to your significant other in the middle of the night muttering something ... read more

Quote to ponder: 'I'm tired of chasing my dreams. I'm just gonna ask where they are going, and hook up with them later.'--quote from Tristan Today is just craziness and coming off of Wednesday night 9am classes are the absolute worst. However, today's student lecture was really really good which is kinda scary but I have a long time to work on it, so that's a plus. After lecture I went to the student union to get some more paper, too much notetaking here!, and then headed to the library. I had to read a bit more about Saint's Cults before I met up with my group to discuss how we were going to give an entire lecture on the topic. It seems that I had not been reading the 'right' material and the direction to ... read more