Blogs from East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 5

Hi, Not a lot to write about as I haven't left Hull and started travelling yet but in the last 3 or so weeks plenty of people have asked me what our route is and when in the next year will we be in certain places, so for those who want to know here is the rough route and dates. July 27th ferry Hull to Rotterdam 10 days in The Netherlands including Amsterdam 7 days in Belgium including Brugge The remainder of August will be spent in northern France including the Normandy beaches. September will start in Paris and then heading down the west coast of France and into the Pyrenees. In October we head into Northen Spain and will travel through Cantabria and Galicia and we will finish the month in Portugal around the Porto ... read more

Wednesday 2.12.2009 Day 49 York Minister We had a fantastic bfast and then we drive to York Minister the largest gothic cathedral in northern Europe and it is 1000 years old. It is one of two cathedrals that has its own police (the other being the Swiss Guard off the Vatican). The Minister and the inner city are inside a wall that surrounds the city. York has more miles of intact city walls than anywhere else in England, and some sections of the walls date back to Roman times. We then drove to Scotland just before we got to the border it started to snow and as we got to the boarder there was lots of snow even on the boarder sign. We then checked into our hotel the Barony Castle and had a look around ... read more

OK, So im a little bored at work, gotta build some hours as im -7h at present with only a week to go untill im free. This gives me a little time to dream about my trip and work out a basic route. i've not really looked at what im going to be doing in Oz or NZ yet so its very basic but the SE Asia map is pretty much what i plan to follow for now. thanks for looking :-)... read more

Well I went to bed early last night, tired from a typical rubbish day at work and stayed awake till the early hours worrying. Not good. I started picturing my Dad leaving me at the airport, at that point thats it, I'm on my own. I'll be in an airport on my own and leaving to travel 5656 miles away on my own. When Dad drops me off at the airport at around 8am on the Saturday, he will be the last person to know who I am until I reach the VMF at around 4pm on Monday. Thats almost 3 days without anyone knowing who I am and where I am supposed to be. Anything can happen in that time! Scares me a lot. To be honest I am glad to be going, students wittering ... read more

On a typical cold and rainy August day in Hull we loaded the Landrover into the container, As usual things did not go smoothly and with the lift kit the roof rack and roof tent we were about 4cm to high for the container so in the rain we had to take off the jerry cans and the roof tent to get the landy in. Fortunately the container was big enough to also lie the roof tent flat, and we ratcheted down the Landrover to stop it moving about and sealed it up, fingers crossed it emerges in the same state that we put it in!! ... read more

Hi everyone! I thought I would start a blog, to try and cut down on excessive group emails, making my travelling easier for me, but still hilarious for you! I'm in the UK, back home in sunny Hull, packing up stuff I probably won't need, and getting vaccines that I probably will. The Hep B one is really knocking me for six, so in very non-Terri fashion, this is going to be a relatively sober summer. Probably a good idea though, cos I am so poor atm its untrue. (Donations welcome.) I have had a nice summer since finishing my degree (Desmond for Terri, but better than what I was expecting) visiting Seviilla (if you don't know about that already, it's too late), Sicily with my Mother which was amazing (met a anti-mafia squad, sailors and ... read more