Blogs from Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 3

Goddamn passport issues. Having already wreaked havoc with earlier holidays this year to Turkey and Norway, my own passport issues had now reared their head and meant that I couldn't travel overseas on the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Weekend. Four-day weekends are oh so rare in the UK, so when they come around I would usually append a few days leave onto them for a proper trip away. Without getting into detail, I wasn't completely sure if I would be able to travel overseas for the long weekend until quite late on, so I didn't have anything organised for quite a while. Just because you can't travel overseas doesn't mean you can't have a decent holiday of course. I've said many times that I haven't done as much tra... read more

So our last few days here and we begin preparing for Europe - weather is about 10, cloudy and rainy - much what we thought it would have been like the whole time we have been here. Doing research on Prague and still finding accomodation in Vienna, more reading to be done in the next couple of days. Packing involves sorting, culling, throwing and posting- not too many arguements mainly with Greg who wants to keep everything. The man at the post office knows me now! Lots of lego and soccer magazines are on their way home but the build a bear bunny - who now has PJ's is embarking on the next leg of the journey with us! We saw a horse stunt show yesterday - combining the two primary themes of our trip - ... read more

Such a great feeling to be able to retreat to the Price Palace!!!! Washing all caught up on, actually used the clothes line yesterday! We saw The hunger games today, pretty long and ok. On our way home we were talking about differences between home and here. 1. People park in any direction on both sides of the road- very strange, you don't know which way cars are going. 2. People NEVER use a rubbish or garbage bin, they just drop the wrapper/rubbish on the ground - street and front yards are full of chip or chocolate wrappers. Rubbish is everywhere. 3. They don't make very good lollies, though they do GREAT chocolate 4. Their papers are AMAZING, newspapers rule in the UK. every week you get to buy one of the latest new releases for ... read more

left earlish and drove straight to Leeds, lots of washing then out to York for theatre, diary of Anne frank. Was chaos getting a park Greg threw us out and ended up running to get there in time. Great production, started lots of conversations with the kids about wwII. Walked the walls of the city after the show. Beautiful weather again. Home via good old tescos!... read more

Up early, breakfast then school work/diaries/technology catch up. Did my research and found the local equivalent of Warrawong westfield - but so much better and bigger. So off we set! Loved the tom tom (yes, I know even more technology.) Besides getting a mobile I wanted to check out the UK equivalent of walmart (kmart but better). Instead I found this amazing shop that was like best and less on steroids. I went nuts - well not as crazy as i would normally - who can resist 3.50 pound for two kids tshirts!!!!! I pretend they're souveners. I put a lot back, really wished Terri and Lara were here to see this! The dual shopping queens wouldn't believe it! Think i will be sending back a lot more than I thought! Luckily the shoes I loved ... read more