http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , United Kingdom , England , Hampshire en-us Thu, 10 Dec 09 11:08:03 +0000 Thu, 10 Dec 09 11:08:03 +0000 GreetingsOK so this is just a test page to make sure you can all see it and then there should be a link around somewhere for you to subscribe and you can totally catch up on what ever I'm currently under achieving.SnogsMe.x http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/Fareham/blog-447503.html Had 3 days in Swanmore with Diana and Denzyl lovely as always. Did the Bere Forrest to play hide and seek with Jacob an Apple Farm Church and saw Jane Austens house as well as The Summer House Who says there is nothing to do in Swanmore Didn't make it to The Missy or The Brookes though... maybe next time. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/blog-446402.html Back to Portsmouth. Enjoyed it last time so went back down to Portsmouth taking mum and dad to see the historic dockyard area as well. Full day again. Had a cruise around did this last time also on the ferry as well gives you a bit of background and history on the ships. The Mary Rose was the ship I was really interested in seeing it is still being restored means it is being constantly spray http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/Portsmouth/blog-445819.html Just back from a weekend down in the New Forrest we set off Friday evening arriving by train into Brockenhurst about 9. Our BB was award winning but probably for service certainly not for space. We were in the smallest room but nice and cosy. I had a bit of a cough thing going on so probably woke up the entire place the following morning. We were treated to a local full English breakfast veg http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/New-Forest/blog-440568.html Preparation for the civil service finished for us at about 1.00 am on the Friday having finished work that day. Tim however was still doing things for us until 2.30 am. We owe so much to Tim for his help in planning and logistics and without him we would have never been ready for the day. The weather for the wedding was beautiful summer had arrived. The service was lovely and Amel was really e http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/Winchester/blog-440379.html We have one week and a few days to go before we meet with friends and family in Winchester for our civil marriage ceremony. Still lots of final things to sort out with regard to the wedding and also moving house so all is a bit hectic. I have one final trip to make for work up to Liverpool then I return stay with our secretary for the final few days as we will be homeless. Leaving do for Amel this http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/Basingstoke/blog-437104.html I'm all packed think I have everything I may need half of my library a Portuguese flag notebooks Andys broken laptop and oh yeah some clothes. This wuill be my last time online in this country for quite a while. So its off to the pub with me for a pint or two and then when I wake up in the morning it will be goodbye to Southampton for quite a while. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/Southampton/blog-435733.html Finally everything starts to come togetherAfter a lot of delays and problems primarily with passportsdamn the post office and money almost everything is finally sorted. My flight coaches trains etc. are all booked and I have given Domnul Joliffmy first host the definite date of my arrival. Exciting.Things are looking up too in that it seems I am probably going to be able to see some of http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/Southampton/blog-430534.html Sunday 2nd AugustAnother opportunity to meet up with cousin JeanAfter preparing our own breakfast for the past few mornings we rathered looked forward to someone else doing it for us and also sampling againthe full EnglishOne thing we have found though is that the English BB as opposed to say the US BBrsquos we have stayed in seem a little more formal and lsquostuffyrsquo.It may depend http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/blog-426936.html This year we are off to the Netherlands and GermanyAgain if you don't want to receive these email reminders then let me know and I can knock you off the list.I am not sure about the access we are going to have to the wifi network on our travels so this may be the only entry till we return in September. However I hope we can let you know of our success in finding interesting things to see and do http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/Southampton/blog-421000.html Hello All...Basically this is a place for me to dump some good photos let you know how i'm getting along and to convince my Mum that i'm still alive.I won't be blogging too often i'll be off doing stuff so check back whenever you're a bit bored and maybe I will of put something up.If i've not updated because I actually have died you'll be reassured to know that i saved all the villagers and my http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/Southampton/blog-420409.html Thursday 16th Somerset gt Portsmouth gt Caen FranceIt had been an inauspicious start. Actually forget that it had been utter pants.Yesterday I dropped the bike. The old ldquoforgot the disc lock was onrdquo chestnut. Helpfully the lock was at its furthest travel from the brake caliper and with big ole 21rdquo rims by the time it clanked into the calipers I was unable to control the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/Portsmouth/blog-419826.html hey so this is my first entry. woohoo ive been planning on going back packing at the end of next year and mim soo excited already. ive found a company that help plan it all and sort things for you for a price of 449 which im willing to pay. and it sounds bloody amazing.all i need to do is save and pay it and book my flight. does anyone know of cheap one way flights to sydney atm ive been looking http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/Portsmouth/blog-417824.html So this is my first ever blog entry. Im going to Ghana in January to teach travel and work in an orphanage with Projects Abroad which is a volunteer company. VERY expensive way of doing it but it means that i get the security of staff in the country homestay which has been checked out and everything organised for me. why am i going Well I went to Kenya for a month at the end of my first Gap http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/Winchester/blog-417764.html I'm sitting in an empty echoey flat on a Sunday morning. My lovely parents having helped me pack up the remainder of my belongings which frankly felt like the majority of my belongings...bloody possessions... have left me here to both give the flat a final cleaning and to get over the symptoms of slight alcohol poisoning from Friday night's debaclefilled leaving party from my beloved schoo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/Portsmouth/blog-417699.html A few photos of our recent camping trip to the New Forest in Hampshire. The weather was good so we headed for a small campsite in the forest called Matley Wood. It has no facilities except for running water so only campers with a chemical toilet can set up there. Thanks to this there were plenty of pitches available and we had a bit of room to stretch out. Best of all the site is a starting poi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/New-Forest/blog-409488.html In the heart of the New Forest there is a magical garden that is home to the Furzey Fairies. Established in 1922 the Furzey gardens feature an absolutely stunning parade of colour and smells as soon as you enter the gardens and walk past the 16th century thatched roof cottage your eyes simply don't know where to look first and your feet don't know which path to explore firstOne of the most http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/New-Forest/blog-402618.html In 1079 William the Conqueror visited a vast forested expanse of Southern England. Stunned by the natural beauty and vast forests of this region he named the 'nova foresta' as his new hunting ground. One beautiful sunny day we decided to leave the city of Southampton and explore this beautiful area which draws me back each and every time I visit the UK.One of my favourite things about the New http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/New-Forest/blog-402602.html The last leg of the cruise from Spain through the Bay of Biscay to Southampton should have been a dawdle. However things didnrsquot go as planned nothing strange about that.We had planned to get all our packing done in the 3 days from Spain to Southampton. What we didnrsquot count on was the weatherhellip. Heavy sea swells and although not seasick we would have broken our necks trying to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/Southampton/blog-400241.html Today was the survival section of the course life jackets life rafts and sea survival. All very interesting and I hope that I never have to use any of it. It was rather depressing. For the practical part we were taken to dive pool and saw how the life rafts inflate then we had to jump off a 4 meter high board and get into the life raft. We ended with the mock abandon ship where we had to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/Southampton/blog-398987.html