Blogs from Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 18

I got up at the rather early time of 6.30am and got ready for my first day at work for MWH! I left home at 7.30am and made my way down to Marylebone Train Station in hope to catch the 7.53 train, but missed it by about 2 minutes! Thankfully there are regular trains to High Wycombe, so caught the 7.59 train instead. I read my Bill Bryson book ‘Notes from a Small Island’ that Ben had given me for Christmas last year on the way. I decided to start reading the book again, as now I am a lot more familiar with the locations and names that he talks about (I had no idea what ‘Mark and Spenser’s’, ‘Waterstones’ or ‘Boots’ were until I came here!), plus I have been to some of the towns! ... read more

Came back to England today. Better weather than France! The ferry was great, 45 minute crossing. Midnight by the time I got back. I was SO tired. D94x... read more

Hello everyone! I guess its been a long time since we officially wrote a blog... so we thought we'd better let all those of you who havent seen us that we're back safe and sound in good old Blighty! I know we actually got back a few weeks ago, but after a lot of jetlag, unpacking, marathons of washing, catching up on sleep and job hunting, we just havent got round to it - until now! So what now I hear you ask? Well - back to reality and finding a job and somewhere to live I suppose. Neither has come up with anything substantial yet , although mountains of application forms and CVs have been written! And so everyone keeps asking us 'what was the best bit?' 'What was the highlight of your trip?' But ... read more

There comes a time in every man's life when he must admit that he's getting old and as my 30th fast approached I decided to face it head on and make an event of it, it's not as if our round the world trip has been arranged by Saga!!! STA travel is for students and youngsters (so i keep telling myself). With Carla's birthday on the 27th and mine on the 29th, we had a busy week either side of the 2 dates. Firstly another trip to North london to visit Lorraine and Andy, great food, a comedy club and a relaxing sunday in regents park followed by our first proper good bye before the trip !!!! Carla's birthday came first on the Thursday and with mine on the Saturday we had booked a private room ... read more

I thought it would be useful to explain where we are actually going..... 2nd Sept, 3.45pm Heathrow to Tokyo 10th Sept, 10.05am Osaka (Japan) to Bangkok 29th Dec, 12.45pm Bankgkok to Singapore 29th Dec, 7.50pm Singapore to Perth 28th Jan 12.20pm Perth to Alice Springs 1st Feb 2.45pm Alice Springs to Cairns 1st April 8.25am Sydney to Christchurch (New Zealand) 1st May 5.15pm Auckland (NZ) to Santiage (Chile) 3rd May 8.35am Santiago to Lima (Peru) 3rd May 1.55pm Lima to Cusco (Peru) 17th May 8.30am Cusco to Lima 18th May 7.15am Lima to Buenos Aires (Argentina) 28th May 1.55pm Rio de Janeiro to Heathrow Matt finished work Friday afternoon and spent today in the sun at an outdoor pool with his brother Chris, meanwhile I had to get up early and be at work as usual, ... read more