Blogs from West Sussex, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 4

Zbliżamy się do miasteczka Chichester,portu założonego przez Rzymian, z daleka widać wysoką wieżę sławnej katedry św. Trójcy. Do katedry zachodzimy od tyłu przez ogrody należące do kościoła. Ogród nie zrobił na mnie większego wrażenia, ale na pewno jest to miłe miejsce, by usiąść i odpocząć. Natomiast katedra owszem. Chichester Cathedral wzniesiono w 1075 roku. Łączy w sobie style normański i gotycki. Przez historyka architektury Nikolausa Pevsera została nazwana „typową angielską katedrą”. Mimo, iż brzmi to bardzo zwyczajnie, od innych tego typu budynków odróżniają ją dwie rzeczy – wolnostojąca dzwonnica oraz podwójne boczne nawy. Wieża świątyni wznosi się ponad jej zielony dach i jest widziana z odległych miejsc w hrabstwie West Sussex. Stanowi punkt orientacyjny dla żeglarzy, a cały budynek jest jedynym tego typu w kraju, który widać z morza. Katedrę konsek... read more

I will take you back to 4.30 in the morning, after just 4 and a half hours of sleep you would be forgiven for thinking that a bunch of zombies were travelling today, but with Eagle Radio blaring down the corridor combined with a lot of coco pops, it is safe to say these zombies are EXTREMELY excited (as is Sulley!). We are now sitting in an exotic pub at Gatwick airport (I believe they call it 'spoons...;)) waiting for our second breakfast of the day! Check in went well and so far so good! First stop? Berlin! Hannah xo... read more

Greetings patient ones. I landed back in the UK to blue skies and warm sunshine - an unexpected pleasure. Some 56 hours after leaving El Calafate, two buses, a taxi, three planes, four airports, and two trains later the wanderer is back in the wee abode he chooses to use as the base for his life. The body is weary and the mind is finding it somewhat tricky to comprehend (once again) the instant switch of context that happens when you board a plane half a (very different) world away and then find yourself in familiar surroundings at the other end. I'll try to go back and update some trail details but the mind is too blurred for the moment. The body needs a bath and the brain needs time to lie still in its juices ... read more

Being in the middle of one of those work phases, this trip is shorter than might otherwise be desired but it allows the wanderer to visit a long-held target (the Torres del Paine). Also hoping to visit the Perito Moreno glacier. On the afternoon of February 20th, a long series of flights (LHR > MAD > SCL > PUQ) will find the wanderer in one of the southern-most airports of our planet - Punta Arenas (pretty close to the bottom of Chile) on the afternoon of February 21st. If all goes well, the wanderer finds a fellow wanderer (FD - last found in the Khumbu in December 2012) awaiting his arrival. The next day, the wanderers hope to find a long bus ride to Puerto Natales. An overnight pause and supply stop and then another bus ... read more

Geo: 51.1133, -0.182914Nothing like waking to the sound of toilet waste rushing by your head. We managed to pack our bags in a confined space and the time to leave easyHotel had arrived. It didn't take long to check the room.. Credit to the staff at easyHotel. I mean, they know their hotel is just bad, but they've all been so friendly about it.We finally got our first dose of Greggs, a bakery chain in the UK. We purchased bacon rolls and OJ and a sandwich for lunch for a total £7 for the both of us. There were weekend works on the tube but didn't delay us much to Victoria Station. We waited an hour or so before catching the National Express to Gatwick airport. With an early flight to Copenhagen tomorrow at 7am, we'd ... read more