Blogs from West Sussex, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 12

Back home at last, how I loved a certain airline whose initials are AA. Didn't know that SIPAH was a terrorist organisation so will have to change this. Role on the next adventure, once all the washing is up to date!!... read more

Well the time is almost upon us. After almost 6 months of planning and saving, we are finally about to take the final step and leave good old Blighty and travel the pleasant 11,000 miles to New Zealand. It is now only a matter of hours before we are going to be running for our gate in Heathrow's busy Terminal 1, eager to get comfortable on our Air New Zealand flight that will last approximately 27 hours (BLOODY HELL!!). But you will hear all about the flight the next time we update this blog, for now I will just let you know that we had a very uneventful drive up from Devon to my fathers house in Horsham, apart from the airshow and the APC tank thing that convinced Elliott we were at war. The journey ... read more

so on sunday we left hostel 639, and bussed down to canetbury, about two hours southeast of london. WE LOVE CANTERBURY. it is all winding cobblestone alleys and great old houses and lovely parkland/river and just, beautiful. we stayed in the nicest hostel (http://www.kipps-hostel.com/), our room was like a little loft with lovely views, the staff were fantastic, it was cheap and we had a great bfast and just- if you are ever in canterbury, go there! of course being the massively unorganised shambles we are, we knew that monday night we were staying in portsmouth down on the south coast, but hadnt bothered to work out how we were going to get there....turned out we had to go all the way back to london! that aside we arrived in portsmouth around 7. for those who ... read more

Monday, June 23 Dublin-John/Dianne arrive I am writing this blog late. It is now Thursday, 26 June. This is the longest period that I have gotten behind. But, since Dianne and John arrived in Ireland, we’ve not had a moment to write and upload the blog. Also, if you are keeping up with the blogs, you would know that we should be flying back at this time. Only, we are not on our way. In fact, after a long day at the airport, we have just checked in to a nearby hotel. You will hear a lot about this day and all the others if you just read ahead. June 23 (Dublin) We planned to meet Dianne and John on Monday morning. They were flying directly in from Atlanta. Their flight was to arrive at 9:30am. ... read more

This iis a picture of a churh where my early ancestors worshiped.... read more