http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , United Kingdom , England , Leicestershire en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:46:16 UTC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:46:16 UTC Thinking about it we will set out to keep in touch with you all by updating this blog. This entry is before we set off to try the system and share our itinerary with you. 14 Nov Fly Heathrow to Los Angeles at 2.25pm arrive 7.30pm flight NZ1 1416 Nov 3 nights Los Angeles Holiday Inn Hollywood 17 Nov Fly to Auckland at 9.30pm arrive 19 Nov 5. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Leicester/blog-344689.html Hello vous tousMe voila arrivee en Angleterre Londre pour etre exact ce qui veut dire que j'ai attein mon but pour aujourd'hui Je suis crevee a vrai dire j ai passe la journee dans des trains des gare et un bateau et me suis un peu perdue pour arriver de la gare a l'auberge mais je suis la pour vous ecrire Je veux dire encore un grand MERCI a Celine pour tout et ca ma fai trop trop plaiz de http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/blog-321694.html Well I'm on my last week with family in the midlands now having toured a few castles and seen various relatives. We've been to Hardwick Hall and Chattsworth house large stately homes Belvoir Castle Willersly Castle and a few days out eating at pubs and driving in the english countryside. Today was good since we saw a reenactment battle put on by a group called The Sealed Knot a volu http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/blog-316159.html Welcome to Emz's travel bloggywotsitOkay so just testing how this thing works Not long to go ahhhhhhhhhhhhh Dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Leicester/blog-310854.html Hello everyoneWelcome to our blog page this is where we will try and keep you all up to date with where we are and what we are doing for the next three months so please do come back and check on us and send us messages because we are going to miss you allIt is Monday 28th July and so far we haven't packed a thing we're still deciding on where exactly we're going to go and how we're going to http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Leicester/blog-305681.html 100 relatives one marquee and an unwritten speech. I've often been heard saying that this is a recipe for disaster and this is exactly the predicament I found myself in on the morning of the Family Reunion25th Wedding Anniversary for my parents.I suppose I was carried away with excitement from meeting so many new cousins Uncles Aunts and long lost family friends in the preceding days that I http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Leicester/blog-305295.html Hi everyoneWell Nina and I have had a very busy week and we were mostly away from an internet signalhellipbut wersquore catching up on blogs now YayWARNINGTons and TONS of family pictures to followWhen last we blogged we were in Toronto with my mom and dad. My sister Suzanne was on her way. She arrived We gave her some little trinkets from Thailand and a birthday gift June 23 http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/blog-294778.html After leaving the EversonCranes we headed to Rothley to spend a night with my old friend Ann Baxter and her partner Chris. Ann's sister Sally joined us for a drink at the Red Lion before we all went back to Ann Chris's place for dinner and a glass of wine or two. As you can imagine we chewed the fat over the many adventures and misadventures which we'd enjoyed during our longgone miss http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Rearsby/blog-289261.html Yes that's right what began when I answered a question on the internet after lots of emails between Australia and England has become a wonderful friendship. Since its humble beginnings in cyberspace over eight years ago the relationship took wings when the EversonCrane family first visited Australia. They have since returned at least three times stayed with us at North Rocks and spent a http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Groby/blog-288780.html This year I'm off to Europe for several weeks. I'll be travelling with Matt who I went around Africa with last year and a friend of his Lucy. We'll be driving around in my car '99 Vauxhall Astra. Our route will take us through France Germany Poland Luithuania Czech Republic Slovakia Hungary Romania Slovenia Croatia Italy and back round to France. We're taking a tent stove etc with http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Hinckley/blog-288512.html HelloI'm in my room shaking with nerves as I still have much to sort out I still don't have a phone that will work in Africa...all will be fineJoe. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/blog-284661.html well its been a long time since i wrote on here so im just really checking it works still. For those of you that dont know or have been told but arent really interested enough to remember or are just sick and tired of my 'im off to teach english somewhere schtick' i have been scraping cash together again these past few months and will be heading off to Vietnam at the end of May to work for IL http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Leicester/blog-273622.html Yes we're off again for another trip longer than a holiday but shorter than a lifetime As before we'll keep a log to save multiple emails and phone calls.The first casualty of our trip has been Margaret and her sofa Margaret having been mawled by Bernie and her sofa washed with rabbit pee courtesy of Mimi. Stuart is glad to see the back of them for a cool month.2 days till take offLov http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Leicester/blog-270619.html Hi all.. so we're getting ready to set off.. got 5 days to go.. already done some of my packing.. which led to disaster number 1... i couldn't carry my back pack so i've returned it and got my self a nice versatile wheelie suitcase.. which can be used as a suitcasebackpack and holdall anyway.. now that i know i won't be breaking my back its a good start.. i'll write more next time.. hopefu http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Leicester/blog-257754.html Here i was in the UK in year 2005 lets See what i have don.. in UK http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Leicester/blog-254722.html OUR TRIPThe World is a book and those who do not travel read only a page St. AugustineJust the first of many blogs hopefully. This is really a precursor as we havent gone anywhere yetBut soon we will be jetsetting off to New Zealand and AustraliaBut also first I am going to Amsterdam with some friends which should be good funI hope to meet lots of other travellers on the way and add to m http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Leicester/blog-240045.html Almost ThereWell we're just about to set off and it's getting pretty excitingWe'll be updating this blog as regularly as we can so keep checking it to see if anything has changedLots of love to all see you in six monthsXX http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Leicester/blog-236495.html Today was a break during the competition so we decided to make a jaunt to Burton Overy and Carlton Curlieu small towns in Leicestershire which are my Vicki's ancestral homes on my father's side. It took a little over an hour to get there from BurtonuponTrent. We drove through Leicester city on our way and were greeted by Harry Potter and Dumbledore waving from the top of the Borders Book http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/blog-232432.html I'm at home right now but thought I'd try out my first entry. As I've not done anything yet I suppose I'll use this to go over what I'm doing in Africa. I hope to update my travel blog with photos and entries whenever I get the chance. I leave London for Cape Town South Africa on 27th June with Matt Powell a friend I met while working for Deloitte. After spending a couple of days in Cape Town http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Leicester/blog-170599.html Hi EveryoneJust been 2 my first festival in England Site www.downloadfestival.co.ukPlace Donington ParkWith TheoTraveled from Spain Barcelona ofcourse on thursday the 7th and back on the 10th.We arrived at about 5 in the morning at the campsite on friday.List of stuff that we I did and bands Bowling for soup Marilyn Manson Evanescence Iron Maiden My Chemical Romance etc.. Scottish http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/blog-168763.html It was a long weekend here May Day so Stacey Kerin an Aussie girl that Stacey teaches with in Leicester and I were going to meet up and go to Bath. But as we left it until Friday night to organise there was absolutely nowhere left to stay. So instead they invited me up to Leicester so I could at least get out of London for a couple of days and see something different. I decided to get the http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Leicester/blog-156350.html Untitledaka The Coopers Well the day is finally here ... as Stu types 10 hours and counting until take off Everything is packed ... except for Bernie the bunny who is going on holiday to Heather's for the next 9 weeks. Stu as always has been trying to pack for every eventuality but Lizzie takes one thing out of his travelpack for every two things he puts in He has tried using the you neve http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Leicester/blog-154143.html Last night it was Kevin's cousin's surprise birthday party that his girlfriend organised. It was a hawaiian theme as you will be able to tell from the pictures It was such a great night I think the girls got tipsy alot faster as Hayley made a punch that was going down nicely for most of the girls. I had a glass but didn't like it as much as the others. Birthday boy was totally surprised when h http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Leicester/blog-153600.html The post docs decided to retreat to the Leicestershire countryside and I decided to retreat with them. Here are photos of me exploring the grounds. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/blog-140223.html The time had come for me to experience my first football match. Leicester city Kevin's team he supports vs West Brom. After watching a couple of movies with football hooligans I was a little apprehensive about the crowds and football fans. We arrive at Leicester stadium with hundreds of people walking around in blue yellow white Leicester shirts scarfs hats flags everything you could th http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Leicester/blog-132646.html Well I have not even set foot on the continent of Africa yet I already feel like I am thereI received a phone call the day before yesterday informing me that Air Zimbabwe had cancelled my flight..... due to the fact they don't have enough fuel to run it Typical Africa clearly nothing changes in Zimbabwe They offered me an alternative flight 2 days earlier on the 1st March so after a lot of fr http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Leicester/blog-132100.html I only have ten more days until me and my rucksack are back on a plane on our way to visit my lion friends at Antelope Park in Zimbabwe.Preparations are well under way and I am now pretty much equipped with everything that I need.Cannot wait I am very excitedxxx http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Leicester/blog-131426.html The last few days have been very eventful we had our Christmas work function on Friday which was a great night. Got to meet many of the girlfriends wifes husbands of fellow workers while having a lovely meal at The Manor inn Quorn of course far too much alcohol for some people. But there were no fights no embarassing moments so everyone will be back to work on Monday. After a weeks holi http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Loughborough/blog-127086.html