Blogs from Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 14

Hi everyone! Welcome to my little blog. I hope I'm able to add a new entry every week so I can keep you updated, and with any luck I'll be able to post a few photos too. I wanted my first entry to be from home, that way I can look back at it myself if I'm feeling homesick and you guys can see what I get up to back at home in Southampton (it's not very exciting, don't get your hopes up!). This blog is accessed by my family, friends and members of the public following my travels, so bear with me if I'm boring you with the preliminaries! The Basics. Name: Streets. Age: 25. Hometown: Southampton, UK. Status: In a relationship. Educational background: MA Media & Communication (Goldsmiths College, London 2010) BA English Literature ... read more

A cold, foggy November morning driving through the Berkshire countryside towards the event around the old Roman town walls. Damp grassy car park with boards to stop you skidding in the mud. Forest full of minor confusing paths, covered with brown autumn leaves, meaning that it was easy to miss a path and carry on through the forest off paths (not that that is a problem - unless you're going through the wrong bit of forest). While it's all damp underfoot, being a damp,cloudy day, the land is so dry at the moment, especially for England in the autumn. Had a control on the edge of a pond, which is just a dry grassy hollow at the moment. We badly need more rain (for the countryside - I don't mind a dry run rather than a ... read more

Ok, so I'm pretty sure that by now I should be excited to the point where I had become unbearable to those around me, constantly harping on about where I'm going, people I'll encounter, experiences I'll have, inexplicably amazingly wonderful adventures I'll be undertaking? So then, why is it that all I have is this overwhelming feeling of impending doom? Flying!! I hate flying!! What the hell am I doing? I keep repeating it to myself. What the hell am I doing embarking on an adventure that without the 'flying' bit would just be a lame drive up to heathrow and back home again? It's a necessity. Unfortunately. To make all of the good stuff real, the 'flying' bit inevitably has to happen. But the anxiety was almost so overwhelming last weekend that I almost panicked ... read more

At 7am on Thursday 10th November 2011 I will wake up, if indeed I have even slept, I will double check my packing list…I say ‘double check’ but chances are that by this point the ‘double check’ will be the distant and long forgotten ancestor of the ‘septuple’ or even ‘octuple check’…I will say a teary goodbye to my wonderful man, who has made this whole thing possible and I will embark on an adventure. One of the biggest I’ve had to date but hopefully not the last. There is so much world to see, after all. It’s going to be a whistle stop tour of North America, New Zealand and India. There was so much more I wanted to cram in but in three months I was asking a lot. So, given that I won’t ... read more

I am a 4th Year Student, Studying Tourism Management at Bournemouth University. I am currently starting my Dissertation on Dark Tourism, and what motivates tourists to go to these places. So, therefore could you please let me know what reasons you decided to visit these places such as; 9/11 Memorial, Auschwitz, Anne Frank and many many others. Also what you felt when you were there. Any answer would be amazingly helpful, Thank You!... read more