Blogs from Channel Islands, Europe - page 7

How spontaneous should a round the world trip be? I was speaking to a guy at work who believes in flying by the seat of his pants. No bookings, little research, just go and see what the world throws at you. On the other hand another person I know can’t go to Tesco without planning every precise detail from the route to take there to the brand of baked beans they’ll buy. Does no planning make you a free spirit - a real traveller, or does it limit your journey by forcing you into scouring cities for accommodation late at night, queuing at embassies for Visa’s or accepting expensive transport when you could have got a travel card if you’d booked in advance? On the other hand does too much planning turn your journey into a ... read more

God defined the differences between men and women in two distinctive ways. Firstly, there is their physical form. By now most of our readers should be of an age where these physical differences should be quite apparent; some dangly bits here a few extra handfuls of clay there… I’d be waffling and probably breaking Travelblog.org rules if I went any further with this… But God has been left flummoxed by man’s (and woman’s) complete lack of satisfaction with the physical form they have been given. Imagine the look on His/Her bearded/silky smooth face when, having settled down for a century infront of the telly, He/She discovers “Gender Re-assignment” on the Discovery Channel. Now to an omnipresent being who’s seen a few things in His/Her time, this still comes as a bit of a shocker. But to ... read more

At what point does an island stop being an island? For me, living in the UK does not make me feel like I’m living on an island despite the fact that we are isolated from the rest of the continent by a few miles of water. But how often do you actually see the sea? In my book, to qualify as living on an island, you have to, at least once in your working day, get even the faintest glimpse of that point where the deep blue meets the horizon. I have resigned myself to the fact that temp work in Jersey means Financial Services. With that in mind I have taken a job at Barclays Bank. The prospect is not exactly thrilling, but I just have to tell myself it’s only for 6 months. If ... read more