Blogs from Fleet, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Leave the ordinary behind this Summer and take on the South Africa Challenge. Imagine a trip where like-minded friends, food, accommodation, travel and day-by-day activities come inclusively. This is truly all-inclusive, World Changers style! Imagine an experience that will change you from within. Imagine the stories you’ll tell back home. Now stop imagining and see how to go started: The South Africa Challenge is an action packed 2 week programme reserved for young leaders only. The World Changers Foundation has laid on this all-inclusive, day-by-day activities in the name of fun, fulfilment and giving back. This all takes place in Durban, South Africa's 3rd biggest city, home to World Changers Academy (pictured below) where we are staying. img=http... read more

Hello everybody!! OK... one very last blog and then you'll have to find something else to do with your lives other than read my blogs... hehe just joking, I think it's lovely that so many of you have been interested in following my travels and reading through my lengthy blogs all this time! :o) Ive been home nearly a week now and Im still not sure that it has actually sunk in that I'm home for good! It's so lovely to be home and feels like I've never been away, everything and everyone has pretty much stayed exactly the same and I dont really feel that different either, although i do know i have changed quite a lot! I think maybe I haven't quite realised that travelling is over, I think at the moment the novelty ... read more

I almost forgot to to this week's entry in OneHorseTown-Loaferville which must be a sign of something, since that's never happened, but I dunno what. It's been a pretty rough week since I've been sick, it got very cold suddenly and everything became harder. Boo fucking hoo eh. I had to take Friday off work because I was too ill. I didn't like doing that - now I'll have to work a Monday to make the day up. Anyway, now I'm sat in front of a computer on a Sunday evening with my foot in bandages and a deadline to meet for freelance, it seemed a perfectly obvious time to cry that off and write it. Hmm, what's to report. I 'spose my mood's a bit crap right now. I feel like I'm trying to squeeze ... read more

I've changed the name of my travelblog to Onehorsetown/Loaferville, adapting it to suit my new position in life - that is, unwashed, in my pyjamas and hoodie all day, generally loafing. I doubt it will make as interesting reading for those kind or bored enough to read my blog over the past year who found tales of death roads in Bolivia and surfing in Sydney, but I've decided to continue the blog and document my release back in to the community anyway (and you'll notice my spelling, grammar and punctuation are all on the up again). So it needed a name that moved with the times. I chose Onehorsetown to reflect how I felt at that point in my life - happily surrounded by much loved friends, but perpetually lonely in my heart - sob sob, ... read more

Well folks, I have returned. I am writing from my parents computer in Fleet, a contender for the Crap Towns trophy, marooned penniless, jobless and mobile phoneless in the centre of a huge, sprawling modern housing estate with its own church, school and Morrisons from which once should never need to leave except if they should wish to taste the sweet nectar of freedom from the shackles of crushing white bread lawnmowing middle classness. You get the distinct feeling that everyone living here only has a wank with silk gloves on. Its that sort of life draining, rancidly bleached safehouse for the emotionally bereft and creatively dead whose hearts can only stop palpitating with fear once they are hidden behind a large plasma screen from Dixons. There are loads of teenagers growing up in this dystopia, ... read more