Blogs from Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 11

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Staffordshire » Newcastle under Lyme June 11th 2009

The trip to Seoul Is already proving to be a hazardous one, with North Korea pulling out of it's peace treaty with South Korea - we are venturing forth into a country that is wary of it's neighbours. Nothing we can't handle though right? As it stands, we have a few weeks to go before we leave, and we are leaving Keele on saturday to go home from our halls/shitehole, to home sweet home where parents can bug us and we can at least have a living room. "Life is something like this trumpet. If you don't put anything in it, you don't get anything out." -W C Handy With Handy in mind, we are off to toot our horns and prepare for hour trip. More info to come!... read more

Newcastle during the day

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Staffordshire » Newcastle under Lyme May 18th 2009

Baltic Art Gallery

Wadey

Great sleep on the couch although i kept waking up cause everyone needed to start their days way earlier than i planned!! So i got up and had some tea around 1030 ish, had some breaky and got ready to set off for a day of exploring. I walked through the outskirts of town not making a right turn somewhere i walked past a bunch of cool shops and amusement centers (uk casinos) and ended up walking across a huge bridge to end up in Quay pronounced key. Walked down to the harbour and found the cool Mellenium bridge which is quite the design. Walked over that to the Baltic and had a look in there for awhile. Not a huge fan of modern art!!! At all Best thing in there was this gallery for Darwin ... read more

The Alton Towers Crew

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Staffordshire » Stoke-on-Trent April 7th 2009

How old?

gmscooter

Hi, Well I hope we all know where we are going just in case here is a link to a map & map with directions http://www.holidayextras.co.uk/theme-parks/alton-towers/directions.html I will import info from face book on here - assuming my technology skills can cope with that! Hope you like the idea of getting to know who you will be having fun with at Alton Towers So far its looking like this: Friday night The Aussie contingent will be: Michael & Lynn Jackson, Denise & Ireland Hall. UK mob - Steph,Andrew & Evie; Jane, Ben and Anna; Eddy& Karen Solbrandt; Sarah,Paul,Amelia & Frank; Sue,Dermot,Annaleese & Jorden; Jo, Mark,Rose & James Saturday night: The Aussie contingent again (its a long way to come for just one night) UK mob - Jane, Ben and Anna; Sarah,Paul,Amelia & Frank; Paula,Alex& Joe; Sue,Dermot,Annaleese ... read more

Christine(and all her boys - not in this photo!)

Bang-a-Boomerang!

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Staffordshire » Tamworth March 20th 2009

Groupies!

Darryl and Sarah

What a Supertrouper of an idea it was to have our first Tradeteam "deployment to Project Outback" do at an Abba tribute night! We knew it was going to be a Midnight Special where The Winner Takes it All and plenty of the gang past and present turned up The Way Old Friends Do for a fling before Our Last Summer together for quite a while! With a role call of 30 we headed into Tamworth to face our Waterloo! First up to experience our Abba-ness was Chicago Rock, you would have thought the staff in there have seen it all before but this seemed new to them! Maybe it was because the average year of their birth was about 1985!! Onto the the Assembly Rooms we went. Would it be like the last time we'd ... read more

Leaving Parties

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Staffordshire » Newcastle under Lyme February 15th 2009

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JuliaAndDan

Our last memories of England...... read more

Happy 9th Wedding Anniversary!

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Staffordshire » Burton-upon-Trent January 28th 2009

Mum & Dad's previous Oz Camper

Darryl and Sarah

Tis true, today is our 9th Wedding Anniversary and as much as we love our little home with it's beautiful surroundings, we can't wait to be somewhere warmer this time next year! The countdown to the off is in full flow with more and more emphasis being placed on the search for a suitable adventure vehicle. This includes hours being spent on the internet rather than cooking tea! We'd originally thought the decision about 'what vehicle' was totally straight forward ... campervan, has to be, doesn't it? Well apparently, no, it doesn't! Now the idea of a 4WD and a caravan has crept into our collective minds so we're checking out more possibilities. It's not just us two that we need to consider, Sarah's Mum and Dad will be coming out to Australia sometime in 2010 ... read more

DASH Down Under ... 363 days of adventure!

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Staffordshire » Burton-upon-Trent December 15th 2008

Darryl and Sarah

Ok, so here it is, the plan that will hopefully get us around Australia and New Zealand in about 363 days! We leave on April 27th 2009 from Birmingham and we go via Dubai ... no stopover though, we're too excited and we just want to get to Oz!! Is it too detailed, is it too basic … who knows but we’ll at least have some idea of where we’re heading!! APRIL 2009 Melbourne MAY 2009 Wilsons Prom - Lakes Entrance - Mallacoota - Merimbula - Batemans Bay - Sydney - Katoomba - Singleton - Port Macquarie JUNE 2009 Coffs Harbour - Willowbank - Warwick - Brisbane - Beerwah - Mooloolaba - North Stradbrooke Island - Noosa Heads - Rainbow Beach - Bundaberg - Gladstone JULY 2009 Cania Gorge - Rockhampton - Marlborough - Mackay - ... read more

still in uk

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Staffordshire October 14th 2008

utmpaul

cruising along the shropshire union canal this week, time to chill with my sis before heading of to mainland europe. hopefully giving my calf muscles time to chill out as well, sick of cramp! i had fun last monday kayaking with my mate in wadebridge, gentle trip down the river camel until we tried to paddle against the tide to get back under a bridge. saw anders on friday which was great, i hadn't seen the guy for way way too long, managed to trash my self at mile end wall, found an few cool problems and a awesome blue volume problem, gutted i didn't try it when i was fresher. ... read more

2 weeks to go

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Staffordshire » Stoke-on-Trent September 23rd 2008

KellyAmanda

All booked up, injections had, stuff brought and 2 weeks left...... read more

A cycle ride on the Shroppie towpath

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Staffordshire August 25th 2008

Michael

David R Turner

Michael suggested some weeks ago that we could cycle along the towpath of the Shropshire Union Canal from somewhere near Telford and turn off at the junction of the Llangollen canal with the aim of going to Llangollen! Having been caught when my defences were weak I duly agreed and today we semi-dismantled our bikes (well, took off the front wheels) piled them into Jen's can and headed for Wheaton Aston. After some difficulty in, first, getting the right wheels on the right bikes, the correct way round, we then had to cope with misaligned brake blocks. For natural engineers, such as Michael and me, this was the work of but a few moments. The tow path was of variable quality throughout but, for most of this first section, it was freshly-mown grass with surprise bit ... read more

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