Blogs from Hastings, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 2

Our third night away from home we spent at our lodging for four nights, Combe Haven Holiday Park, in historic Hastings. We lived in very nice little mobile homes, fitted with kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms, heaters, living rooms etc. Each home had a teacher supervisor living with the students. The holiday park was great too, but we had little time to enjoy all the facilities because of the packed program. We went shopping to a great supermarket called Sainsbury's and bought all the food we needed and more. I lived in the "boy" house where we had spaghetti, Chinese, pizza, cake, chocolate, sausage and more to eat (not all at one time). ... read more

Hello again, we've been out playing the tourist again. Must say lucky with the weather, the sun has been out the last couple of days. So much to see and do, so little time, and only four days left before the epic long-haul flight home. Can't say I'm looking forward to it. Anyway, enough waffling, on with the show, here's some more pics to check out. :-)... read more

So, nearly ready... Now everything has started to come together I'm starting to find myself worrying a lot about things going terribly wrong. I suppose only now has it really started to feel 'real' - what with one thing and another happening to frustrate our plans I'd almost sort of started to think in my mind that it wasn't going to happen. Owen is more excited than I am I think, I was more excited before but now I'm starting to think of all the things that are going wrong. I'm hoping it will pass once I get started! To date, the things that have held me up: My grandmother has had yet more heart palpitations and been sent into hospital. She's out again now but very frail. My grandfather has been having bleeding from ... read more

Saturday, February 16th, 2008: We had a bit of an adventure getting down to Hastings today. Dad's flight got in late this morning, then there was a problem with the Picadilly Line, so he had to take the Heathrow Express, which put him at Paddington. Well, the train left from London Bridge, and with the little distractions and bumps in the road, he got there just in time for us to see the train pull away from the station. We eventually got one from Victoria towards Brighton, but this apparently was not the best train to be on...so we changed at East Croydon and got a direct from there to Hastings. Made it in at about 4:30. Then, the info desk at the train station had no maps, so we wandered around the town, eventually finding ... read more

Brake ups, Illnesses, Flat loss and lots of crap in hastings soooooooooooooooooo i called kayla and sorted out coming travelling with her! Today i had to go up to london to get my passport whooop whooop n that is where my journey begins!! So i went on my own, shat my pants that i would be robbed on the way but hey ho its always a risk! Anyway i got to Victoria station with time to spare so i was doing well!! Im crap with direction so naturally i got lost trying to find the passport place but finally i was there!!!! walked in and within half an hour had sorted out my passport yipppeeeee!! so when i got outside called Kay to tell her the good news, danced all the way down the road and ... read more