Articles Posted in the England Category

  • Ella on Ripstick in Lincolnshire

    Time at Woodpeckers Cottage

    by Sam on Aug 11, 2010 | No Comments

    26 – 28 July 2010 As always it was lovely to catch up with Auntie Jilly, Uncle Howy, cousins Ella and Annabel and Grandma. Thank you all so much for your hospitality.

    Posted in Blog, Chilling, England, Europe

  • Group Bus Photo

    Homeward Bound (Netherlands, Belgium, France, England)

    by Sam on Jul 31, 2010 | No Comments

    24 July 2010 Everyone managed to get back on the coach and leave Amsterdam despite many probably preferring not to. We docked at Dover around 5.30pm and headed to London. The plan was to have one last night together in the pub to wrap up a successful 37 days around Europe; and that is exactly [...]

    Posted in Belgium, Blog, Destinations, England, Europe, France, Holland (Netherlands)

  • Big Ben-2

    London to Paris

    by Sam on Jun 26, 2010 | 1 Comment

    17 – 19 June 2010 17 June was a Thursday and I was still in Lincolnshire with Jilly, Howy, Annabel and Ella who I had had a fantastic time with. It was with nervous excitement that I bordered the train to London so that I could get to the Contiki registration later that night in [...]

    Posted in Activities, Blog, Destinations, England, Europe, France, Must See

  • Grandma's Birthday-2

    Grandma’s 80th Birthday

    by Sam on Jun 26, 2010 | 3 Comments

    15 June 2010 I haven’t had many opportunities to celebrate my grandmother’s birthday so it was special to be there for her eightieth!

    Posted in Activities, Blog, England, Europe

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    Time with my Cousins

    by Sam on Jun 26, 2010 | 1 Comment

    05 June 2010 Anna 08 – 17 June 2010 Ella A lovely evening out with Anna and her flatmates. Walking Spike, Buffy and Tigger with Ella. I had a go on Ella’s Ripstick, as you can see in the videos she is far better than me. Cousin Annabel is swimming across the English channel in [...]

    Posted in Activities, Blog, England, Europe

  • Nottingham Football Mania

    Nottingham and Hull Day Trips

    by Sam on Jun 23, 2010 | 2 Comments

    11 June 2010 – Nottingham 12 June 2010 – Hull I needed to make a day trip to Nottingham to get a National Insurance number, which would allow me to work in England but more importantly provided a step towards setting up a UK bank account. My trip to Nottingham was notable for the biggest [...]

    Posted in Activities, Blog, Destinations, England, Europe

  • Lincolnshire-24

    Lincoln Ghost Experience

    by Sam on Jun 15, 2010 | No Comments

    11 June 2010 Make of it what you want; I have no interest in trying to convince you I photographed a ghost, ghosts don’t even exist. However what exactly did happen on that fateful Lincolnshire night? Comments welcome… Aunty Jilly had been wanting to do this guided ghost walk of Lincoln city, my visit made [...]

    Posted in Activities, Blog, England, Europe, Must See

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    London Sightseeing

    by Sam on Jun 10, 2010 | 6 Comments

    31 May – 07 June 2010 – Doesn’t time fly My highlights from the city of London so far have been the simple things. Catching up with friends and family. My first Guinness in a London pub. Random meanderings through the city streets. The breadth of food and drink available. Lastly the parks, statues and [...]

    Posted in Activities, Blog, Destinations, England, Europe, Must See

  • Battle to London and sleeping in airports

    Battle to London

    by Sam on Jun 05, 2010 | 2 Comments

    29 May 2010 – 31 May 2010 “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey” - Kenji Miyazawa What follows is a chronological timeline of the small battles and the large battles that James and I faced in our war with distance and time in order to reach London. Koh Phangan to [...]

    Posted in Blog, Destinations, England, Europe, Thats Crazy