Blogs from United Kingdom, Europe - page 2982

Flying to Austrailia in next couple of days, so haven't done much, just revisited a couple of museums. Also went to a Latin American festival (Carnival del Pueblo) with a friend from school. 19 different Latin American countries, food (including beer from Peru!), music, dancing, etc. Nice day out, sunny and relatively warm, and evidence that London is a very multicultural city.... read more

Another Sunday and the piping routine conntinues with another Highland Games competition but this Sunday we are at the Bridge of Allan in Scotland. The Bridge of Allan is only a couple miles from where we are staying at the university. For the kids, it's on the bus at 9:45AM to be transported to the games site. Not too far for pipers to walk but can you imagine packing some of those drums, especially the big bass drum that far ?! Parents made our own way to the games, most I think by enjoying a Sunday morning walk. The Bridge of Allan is a small community not far from Stirling which is about midway between Glasgow and Edinburgh. The community may be small, the games venue might be small, but it is a very busy venue ... read more

Meeting Rebecca Checking out Camden Markets Walking everywhere. Yet another not too motivated morning. But I did know I had to be up and ready to leave the house by 10AM because it’d take about an hour to get to Camden to meet Rebecca for a day out in London. Wasn’t too sure where the best place to meet would be but I wanted to check out the wackiness of the Camden Markets for myself. Interesting that magic mushrooms are for sale openly and I saw the neon shop for myself as well. There were quite a few stalls set up selling clothes and souvenirs and stuff like that. It was quite an interesting experience. After a bit of browsing we stopped into a coffee shop for a drink and snack. Next up on our discovery ... read more

Well packing is turning out to be a real pain, especially since the air conditioner in my apartment isn't working. Its too hot to do anything! Last night was my leaving party - We went to a British pub in Manhattan, I thought it was quite fitting. It was great to see everyone, people were buying me pints left and right. I don't usually drink pints that much so after a few I started to get dizzy. I felt like I was in high school drinking wine coolers. It was really tragic, honestly. I'm the tragic hipster. At this time next week I will be one tragic hipster in London Town!!!!! So, for all you whippersnappers out there who haven't seen me since Australia, Did you know that I just finished my Master of Arts??? I ... read more

Hi All Sorry it's been a while since our last entry. There is pleanty for us to fill you in on....but the first thing of note is that we have finally moved out and are no longer crashing on Steve, Breck, Simone and Loz's floor. They have finally got us out of their house and are ready for the next lot of Aussies to take our positions. We loved our time there, but felt that after 3 months....it was time to move on (We still find ourselves there every weekend though). We thought we would take this opportunity to update you on our new friendly neighbourhood and our new pad......Pictures say a thousand words so we'll let them do the talking! We will have some more blogs out to you real soon...... We hope you are ... read more