Blogs from England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 1716

Hi again everyone...after a busy weekend last weekend in Poland, we went camping in Shropshire at a campsite we have visited several times before last year and again..this year was no disappointment. Firstly, the campsite is in a rural setting surrounded by fields with sheep, cattle and other wildlife that visited around our tent at night which included rabbits which was nice. The campsite is called 'Cartref' and is located at Ford Heath which is west of Shrewsbury. The owners, Pat and Alan are the most welcoming people you'll ever meet and always stop to chat no matter how busy they are. The toilet and shower block is in pristine condition and cleaned everyday, and we suspect its cleaned twice a day and is one of the reasons why we return to this idyllic site ... read more

\oh my goodness there are so many people here, it is overwhelming, amazing but overwhelming especially as we are still abit punch drunk! with jet lag. Have had a great couple of days. Yesterday after arriving and finding our accomodation, very funny experience going up and down the same street looking looking looking and being directed by people who thought they knew but actually didn't! We are in a tiny little attic type room at the top of fifty million stairs and only one of us can stand up at a time as the roof is sloped, great london experience, we headed to the Tower of London. absolutely amazing, so old and we were given a tour by a beefeater. Saw the crown jewels while there also. Then today we headed out to the London dugeon, ... read more

London, here we come, baby!AmandaAirport Disaster (RAIN) We started the day by “trying” to get to the airport. I say, “trying” because we took this really fast train from the Stockholm Central Station to the Arlanda airport. The train seriously went 200 km/hr. We got to the airport 3 hours early and then realized that we needed to go to the other airport across town. I'd be lying if I said this was the first time my sister has done this "go to the wrong airport" thing. It was 1.5 hours away and would have cost us 1500 kr to drive there. We tried to figure out what to do but we ended up just taking the next plane from Arlanda to Heathrow Airport for about 1.5 million US dollars. Needless to say, Michelle was not ... read more

Having been awarded one of only fifteen places on the Media Net Academy at the Churches Media Council Conference, turned up excited by the prospect of three days at working at the crossover between the media (specifically, the web/internet) and Christianity. The general gist, as I understand it, is that many Christians see the media as a place of ‘evil’, and by encouraging more young Christians into the media maybe we can change the perception of this… We were soon introduced to each other as a big group, then divided into streams. Our ‘web stream’ was Elizabeth (a journalist), Fran (PR), Gareth (radio DJ), and myself. Rachel, our trainer, talked us through our aims for the site, etc, and then introduced us to ‘wetpaint’ so that we could concentrate on site structure and content, rather than ... read more

successfully arrived, full diary coming after arrival back home.... read more