Blogs from England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 2186

Carl and I started our trip with a couple days in London. We flew in to Gatwick on August 13. He started chatting girls up on the train into London. We had no problems meeting up with Chris and since it was his birthday, we knew it was going to be a big night for us all. We went for dinner at an Indian restaurant with Chris and his brother Al before meeting up with his new friends, Diana and Liana (sp?). We went salsa dancing at a place called Club Havana. We had lots of drinks that night because the place had no air conditioning and we nicknamed it the sweat box. The next day we toured around London with Chris and met up with some Spanish friends of his, Txell (pronounced shell) and her ... read more

i've just started this thing, it's cool and pretty easy although it nearly took me an hour to figure out how it worked. but since everyone told me that i shoud do it, i've decided that it was a good idea to get everybody jealous!! ... read more

Did I mention that I was overzealous on Saturday morning and woke up at 3 AM to get showered and ready for my 6:15 AM train to London from Edinburgh? Actually, the truth is, I didn't have a real good concept of time at the moment I woke up. I just woke up because I heard doors slamming, toilets flushing, and lots of movement characteristic of awakenings. And besides, the light outside City Centre Guest House looked deceptively like "break of dawn" light. In reality, people were just getting back from a long night of partying and getting "crunk", as Joey would say. So... at 4 AM... I was ready to climb Mt. Everest sans sherpa! Holy shit was I ready! I should have known. In the light of my little mini-flashlight, I could see the ... read more

Wazzup Geezers!!!!!!!!! Alright peoples its been awhile. So I just thought I'd check in on how everybody is and update ya all on what I've been up to:-) Alriiiggghhhttttyyyyy then!!! So yup how is everyone? Good? Great!!! Anywho!!! What have I been up to!!! Work!! Work! Work!! and more WORK!!!! Ecccckkk!!!!! In between that I have managed to fit in a trip up to Ambleside and up to Edinburgh again!! YAY!!!! Ambleside was just for the day, took my little cuz up and we just sat by the lake for the day.....For those who don't know, even though I've said it b4....Ambleside is absolutely beautiful...It was good just to get away from the hussle and bussle for a day..... Now Edinburgh....That was cool.....HI ERIN!!! Anyways the main reason for going up to Edinburgh was to see ... read more

Wow, it's been 9 months since my last post, and looooads has happened since, where to start.... OK, firstly the best news, and that is we have decided to try and go to Australia again, after not going after NZ we were a bit disappointed for a few months but then gave up on going on a Working Holiday Visa as it is only 2 years until I am too old to get one (30) ... and we got on with our lives did some things and then in the last few weeks we have decided that what we want to do we can do here in the UK or over in OZ, but the difference being that we would be much happier doing it in OZ and also now that OZ have changed the WHV ... read more