Blogs from United Kingdom, Europe - page 2942

His skin was like leather. He wore the tattered remains of what might have been a sleeping bag. His most distinguishing feature was a two foot long, one foot wide matt of hair, resembling the tail of the North American Beaver. It is unlikely that this particular Scot had ever seen a beaver, making the resemblance a phenomenon. Three years ago in late July the man had approached three naive Canadian tourists on the streets of Edinburgh to ask for spare change. He felt akin to the three because they too had terribly out style hair cuts. Today... His beaver tail swayed happily in the light breeze, basking in the autumn sun. a fleeting glance. A passerby. A familiar face. It was him, The naive Canadian with the formerly awkward haircut. Fate had brought them together ... read more

Dear Lynfielders, Timmy P moved in to number 46 on Auckland Hill with Paul, the Deebo & Aaron. The current residents said to themselves..."Hey, let's have a party!" So they had one, and it was awesome. Enjoy, Aaron... read more

The Florence Tavern, Angel Islington. Saturday 8th October. (and a few others) Thank you to everyone who came along to our leaving bash and for all the well wishes before we left. Hope you like the photos. Adele and Simon xxx ps I know I've written 18th on the photos - got a bit confused, A x ... read more

On Saturday a huge group of International students took a trip to the North Antirm Coast, the Giants causeway, and Dunluce Castle. The day was typical weather wise for Northern Ireland. The morning was beautiful and clear. Blue skies abounding in alll their glory, then as we get along in the car the rain begins pouring down. I was very glad that I had packed my rain coat. Of course once we arrive first in Port Stewart The sun once again comes out. But the calming breeze is replaced by a fierce wind, which you can see in the pictures. At all points throught the day we were subject to the ever changing mood of the weather. However, we did see more rainbows that day then I think I have ever seen. when I was ... read more

As some of you know, I've been fighting with my bank and I've not been able to have some services available to me that are standard in the US. First, some background. Within the first week that I was in the country, I was able to get my bank account set up with one of the major banks since my manager had a contact at a locum agency that knew some high-ranking person at this bank. After finally contacting this person (she'd been out of the office with food poisoning), she was able to set up the account over the phone with me having to fax her a couple of documents. Now, from my point of view, this was great. Everything that I'd read or been told basically said that this process was going to take ... read more