Blogs from United Kingdom, Europe - page 2550

Feb. 4 It football time!!! Actually football time is over……but it was the super bowl today and it was great. Not perfect though ----- none of the actual super bowl commercials were broadcast over here. Can you believe that?! I really did have a good time though. We all got over to the bar at like 8 and by “we” I mean a huge group of girls. The guys choose not to show up until much later……yes we made fun of them for that. The game didn’t actually start until 11:30 so we watched a rugby game for a while. I really don’t understand that game at all. We watched really closely but about the time we thought we had a pattern something different would happen. Then we got distracted from our search for a pattern ... read more

It's been almost two days since my arrival, and I am loving this place already. Let me start at the beginning... Friday, February 2: My mom, sister and I drove to Fort to carpool to Chicago with Anna and her parents. We thought we'd be late, but of course we got to the airport several hours early. Checking in wasn't a problem...unless you count my 15-pounts-overweight luggage! I already knew I would have to pay the $50 fee, though, so it was OK. Much cheaper than shipping it all, I discovered when I called the post office. Besides, my beautiful hot-pink luggage (birthday present!) is heavy-duty and very heavy! Saying goodbye to Mom and Andrea got a little emotional - I hate goodbyes! I cried for this one, of course, but had also teared up when ... read more

Finally experienced the Knighton townies last night. Myself and my pack of American friends went into town to try to find a coffee bar. Since I've been here I've really gotten into drinking cappucinos etc. and I also wanted to find a good place to stake out at night and write papers. We didn't quite find that, but we did find a Spanish bar that sold really cheap (1.80) bar tapas and bread with olive oil. We went back and forth between that place and an incredibly cheap and friendly Kebab stand (TJ's Flames). Arun and I both got the humus wrap, and it was definitely better than anything I've had in the states. All of the people who told me that British food was rubbish underestimated the overwhelming amount of authentically ethnic restaurants throughout Britian. ... read more

Hi everyone! I’m trying this travel website thing to keep in touch and hopefully post some interesting photos of Europe. I figure it’s a bit more convenient and more fun than sending out loads of emails. I’ll try to update every once in a while. So here’s what it’s been like, in a very broad sense, so far: The food isn’t as bad as I’ve heard it to be, but there are a lot of strange foods/combinations of foods that I’ve never seen in America. I’ve been attempting to try some new dishes and for the most part have liked them. There are set meal times though. Breakfast is from 8-9.30, lunch is from 12-2, dinner is from 6-7. It’s difficult working out my day around those times, because otherwise I’d have to pay a semi-expensive ... read more

On Saturday I celabrated another national day in London, this time Waitangi Day, the national day of New Zealand, as a couple of NZers in the flat, and most of Karens rugby team. It seemed so much bigger than Australia Day because they did what was called the Circle Line Crawl, where 9,000 (as reported) people start from 10am on the underground circle line stops and travel all day around, to end up in front of Big Ben to watch the Haka. There was a whole group of girls from Stuart Rd (where im living at the moment) and about 10 other friends kept as close as we could together all day, so was pretty fun. We started off at Notting Hill Gate, and it was 11am and already the streets were absolutly packed and ... read more