Page 6 of Blueveincustardthrower Travel Blog Posts



Didn't really do much yesterday, woke up at 3am, lay in bed until 6am then went on the computer until about 1pm. Went to sleep for 2 hours, then Raph got home. She took me out to see a castle briefly and just show me around the area. (Photos below) I then went to the pub with Raph and met up with her friends. Englands drinking culture doesn't appear to be like ours (maybe it was just the people I was with?) but everyone goes to a pub and has a couple of drinks. Every kilometer or so you seem to see a pub which always has people in it. At the bar I tried a "Golden Summer" (a northhambrian cask ale apparently) and the famous "Newcastle Brown." Newcastle Brown was suprisingly alright. Here I was ... read more


Journey Commenced 16th July 2008 at 5:45pm NZ Time. Melbourne Airport (Transfer) The flight from Auckland to Melbourne wasn't too bad. I tried to keep awake in the hopes that I would fall asleep on the Dubai Trip. At the Melbourne airport, during the transition period I ordered a vegetarian pizza. The girl at the counter told me she would call out to me when it was ready, so I sat down and started reading my book. After about 15 minutes or so (I'm guessing here as I didn't have any way of telling the time) an announcement came across asking for all NZ Passengers who were on the Dubai flight to go through. I walked over to the counter and asked the chick where my Pizza was. She told me they'd accidently burnt it but ... read more




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