Blogs from Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 4

Well, with all the trouble in Thailand we may need to re-think our route around the world! We are taking a year out from our careers to travel around the world for a year. Our plan is to spend 3 months in Thailand before heading to Bali for Christmas. Sydney will play host to New year before heading out to travel around New Zealand for 3 or 4 months. A chill out in the cook Islands before visiting the bright lights of Vegas before coming home to normality!! I think we have bought everything we may need to go -now all we need are the tickets!!... read more

Thursday 16th - Somerset - Portsmouth - Caen (France) It had been an inauspicious start. Actually forget that it had been utter pants. Yesterday I dropped the bike. The old “forgot the disc lock was on” chestnut. Helpfully the lock was at its furthest travel from the brake caliper and with big ole 21” rims by the time it clanked into the calipers I was unable to control the thing and down she went. Right in the surgery car park. What a numpty! That was closely followed by some ridiculous last minute self adjustment of my glasses which saw me shear the arms off my spectacles. So I am without glasses for the trip. Don't ask me why I chose today to experiment with my optometrist skills, having successfully avoided doing so the last 20 years ... read more

I'm sitting in an empty, echoey flat on a Sunday morning. My lovely parents, having helped me pack up the remainder of my belongings (which, frankly, felt like the majority of my belongings...bloody possessions...), have left me here to both give the flat a final cleaning and to get over the symptoms of slight alcohol poisoning from Friday night's debacle-filled leaving party from my beloved school (sorry guys, I'm a handful, but I love you.) Leaving work, moving house, going to Mexico: three things you normally wouldn't do in a week if you had any sense. Luckily, I have some (Friday notwithstanding) and actually moved most of my stuff a few weeks ago to a nice lockup near my folks' house. I've cancelled my rent, utilities, etc. or at least tried to, and am sitting ... read more

Hello again, To "change the pace now" as Elliott Goblitt used to say Loch & I left the girls to their own devices & navigational skills as we headed South. We had planned some days earlier to take a trip down to Portsmouth to visit Fratton Park the home of the mighty ( 2007 FA Cup Winning ) "Pompey". So it was on one of our many London Underground train rides that I read in a local paper that Pompey was to host Chelsea in a Carling Cup match on the day of our intended visit. Now this had to be more than a coincidence but hey...who was going to argue the benefit of it anyway. So it was straight onto ticketmaster the next morning to secure a couple of seats if they were available. Once ... read more

so heute haben wir nicht mehr so viel gemacht.morgens von ati verabschiedet und noch mit gipsi und chris gassi gegangen ! dann um halb zwei ins auto und ab nach gatwick ! aufm weg noch ne pommes geholt und in gatwick eingecheckt. dann von chris verabschiedet und noch lange gewartet bis wir losgeflogen sind :/ !! war alles problemlos und wir hatten gutes wetter zum fliegen !! (: am flughafen in deutschland koffer geholt und dann families hallo gesagt !! (: jaa das war unser letzter tag in unserem england urlaub ! ES WAR ECHT SPITZIK BEI EUCH IN ENGLAND UND SUPER FUNNY ! (: 33... read more