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Europe » United Kingdom » England » Hampshire October 29th 2005

Hello it's me! Just thought I'd better have another go at this before I leave otherwise I'll get stuck while I'm away and you wont be able to see my piccys and we can't have that now can we?! It's also the perfect opportunity for me to introduce you to my travel companion. His name is Elliot and he's a little grey elephant who will be keeping me company and no doubt appearing in a few photos too! So...4 days now until I'm off on my travels again and I'd love to tell you all that I'm packed, sorted and ready to go but unfortunately as you can see from the Picture, what should be the contents of my backpack is in fact spread all over my bed and most of my room! If any of ... read more

Stirling

Europe » United Kingdom » Scotland October 29th 2005

Us at the top of the tower

Shane and Toni

Vicky and Roddy took us to Stirling today - home to the William Wallace Monument (Braveheart), it gives you the history of the man who struggle to give FREEDOM to Scotland. The monument is built like the tower of a castle, with a narrow and winding staircase about 260 steps. You get to see Williams sword and a view of where the battle of Stirling occured, when Scotland beat the English. It was very cold and windy at the top.... read more

The Trip Home

Europe » United Kingdom » Scotland » Lanarkshire » Glasgow October 29th 2005

New Lanark

Angus Jo Ailsa

Hi, all - it's been a while since I last did one of these as we've been fairly busy since we got back from our trip back to blighty. I'll have to keep this reasonably brief as Jo-Ann insists that I sepnd too long on the computer. In fact if she had her way, there would be no more blogs...ever. Might not be a bad thing, I'm sure some of you are thinking! Anyway, we had a great trip home despite spending approx 48 hours on planes with only a couple of hours break each way in what felt like a prison cell in LAX. It was fantastic to spend time catching up with family and friends and it certainly brought home to us just how much we miss everyone. What we don't miss however is ... read more

Driving around Aberdeen Shire

Europe » United Kingdom » Scotland October 28th 2005

Toni and Castle

Shane and Toni

Today Roddy took us for a drive around Aberdeen Shire, we saw some castles and lochs. Froze our Australian sun loving arses of - but enjoyed it all the same. Going to Sterling tomorrow - will have to buy a better jacket.... read more

I'm finally ready to go...

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London » Richmond October 28th 2005

Guanabara

Paulo

So the time has come for me to finally set of on my around the world trip and hopefully find some of the answers to all my questions or at least have fun trying! I’m heading off on my sabbatical for 4 months with an around the world ticket, my rucksack and a jungle survival book. My first stop and the biggest part of my travel is to Thailand to work for an animal sanctuary located in Kao Look Chang in the Petchaburi province, 24 kilometre’s from the beaches of Cha-am and Hua-hin and about 200 kilometre’s from Bangkok. The wildlife program aims to take in and care for wild animals that have been domesticated or maltreated, and to rehabilitate those that are fit back into the wild. For those animals that are unable to go ... read more

Home sweet home

Europe » United Kingdom » Scotland » Midlothian » Edinburgh October 28th 2005

leith walk

DTeam and Scottie

Here are some pictures of our flat :)... read more

Test

Europe » United Kingdom » England October 28th 2005

Stevee

Folks If you receive this, please Email back to steve-ellison@hotmail.co.uk Cheers Janet & Steve... read more

Just the weekend left!!!

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Hampshire » Portsmouth October 28th 2005

Bowflex

Well we leave on tuesday morning so you can imaging got alot of goodbyes to to say. Got a busy weekend with partys, meals ect. Got to the stage now were i can start to enjoy the last couple of days because i have now got everything sorted. Travel insurance, credit cards, money, blah blah. Cant wait, it now seems that all those times getting up at silly o'clock and working all the hours possible has been all worth it because now i can have the year of my life! Well next time you will here from me i will be in L.A or maybe Fiji!! ... read more

back in london

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London » London City October 28th 2005

Lissy

have just arrived here in london from scotland.edinburgh was great fun. a really nice city - very easy to live in i imagine. i stayed with a few friends, who i'd met along the way - nice to be part of a house again. i'm staying with a friend here in london too. gotta love making contacts in foreign places!!! not that london is exactly foreign now. now, back to edinburgh. i only really had two full days there - but i managed to do all that i wanted to in that time. the first day - wednesday, (after talking to the family about chloe) i went to the castle. it was pretty cool. a bit boy-ish though. lots of war stuff so not really my scene. still good to go to. then i was a ... read more

A storm's a brewin'!

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Nottinghamshire » Nottingham October 28th 2005

UKslug

It's finally Friday!!! Yippeee. I'd probably be much more excited if I wasn't still trying to get rid of my cold. Although if it goes away by Monday (aka Halloween) then I'll be a very happy camper. :) On the off chance that it decides to stick around, I'll not be a very happy person to be around...maybe that could be my costume, a grouch. Grouches: Oscar or the Grinch?? or Scrooge?? Hmmm...I'll have to think about all those and decide later. Seminar this morning was educational. It was kinda weird. I'm not used to going to section and discussing a topic that has not been covered in lecture yet. It was kinda strange but I did a little bit of reading for it. However, today was basically a whole other lecture. My coughing got the ... read more

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