Blogs from Hertford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Having just endured a short stay in hospital, I thought I’d share my notes on things that occurred to me. Okay, I know this is TravelBlog and that the UK's National Health Service has nothing to do with journeys around foreign lands - but I did have to travel to the hospital and, as you’ll discover, it could almost have been China, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Poland or Romania in England’s green and pleasant land! So, for what it’s worth, here are few of my observations during this enforced time away from home: Buildings are there for a purpose, be it hotel or hospital. Hospitals aren’t hotels, but my recent experience says the service in hospitals is actually sometimes better. It’s the people who make the difference. The many grades of nurses have different, confusing uniforms. ... read more

Leaving Oxford quickly (after a good sleep in) as what a boring Town it is, the day was typical English dreary, low fog and bloody freezing it was a day that we really had nothing planned so we headed on back down towards London as we had to drop the camper off early the following day. It is surprising that you drive a few miles over here and the landscape changes dramatically, from sleepy village lanes and stone walled fields to larger roads and scenes that would look right at home in the Waikato, farms everywhere and the funny thing is that you are in the middle of the countryside and come around a corner to a roundabout and there right in front of you is a new car dealership, cross the roundabout the countryside again ... read more

11 December 2010 It is almost a year on from the end of my travels as I start writing this final entry. It has been on my mind for 10 months to write this blog; I even wrote in my last blog entry “I will write one last blog in the new year, to sum up the last 18 months of travelling, an afterword so to speak.” I didn’t intend it to write this blog so deep into the New Year and almost into the next one but inevitably events take over and you get into the routine of work, sleep, work, sleep.....a weekend or two thrown in for good measure and before you know it a year has passed you by in the blink of an eye. Did my 18 months of travelling pass so ... read more

I arrived in Waterford a few hours ago and Dan has been giving me the guided tour, climaxing with a postbox! We're all packed and raring to go, only a 20hour journey before we arrive in Mexico City and try and find a way to get from the airport to Hostel Amigo! Hopefully should be updating this every couple of days or so (but no promises!) so you can share the adventure of a lifetime with us, its gonna be magical! why did the mexican push his wife off the cliff???? tequilla!! xxx... read more

Right now i am more tempted to kill myself than i ever have been in my whole life!! This is not a good thought to be having but i am at my temp job more BORED than i have EVER been ~ I know i have a short attention span and get bored quickly anyway doing the usual stuff listening to music, girlfriends etc but i am starting to think that to stop this perpetual (not sure ever used that word before) torment of bordem at my job killing myself would be the easiest and quickest way out. I honestly believe that this much pain is not worth all the pleaseure that will come my way once travelling has comenced ... OMG I AM BORED ... No-one in the history of planet Earth has ever been ... read more