UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 20 Nov 2009 | Views [19]
after a very long bus ride next to a quite unfriendly chain smoking french man, i finally completed the journey from london to paris where iona and i were REUNITED in the relatively unglamorous gallieni bus terminal. for the next 2 days we hung out ... Read more >
Tags: red lights, windows, amsterdam, ritz, gold.
BELGIUM | Saturday, 14 Nov 2009 | Views [53]
and so, at last count, i was lurking around a slightly scruffy parisian hostel when a friendly danish guy offered me a lift to brussels. nice. love danish people. as countless backpackers have discovered, free transport in europe (and probably anywhere) ... Read more >
Tags: chocolate museum, barack obama, denmark, free transport
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 6 Nov 2009 | Views [57] | Comments [2]
HELLO FRIENDS AND FAMILY the time has come, the walrus said, for you to all finally know how on earth i survived a month without iona in the big (ok, small) bad country that is england. to tell you the truth, i didn't quite know how i was going ... Read more >
Tags: england, coldness, 2 pound pizza and buses
FRANCE | Sunday, 1 Nov 2009 | Views [136] | Comments [2]
my plan for october was to go to paris, quickly find an easy and well-paid job (something like sampling chocolate was what i had in mind) and spend the large part of the next month wandering around galleries, shopping and eating crepes. well, it would ... Read more >
Tags: eiffel tower, pub crawl, palace of versailles, scandanavian people
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 | Views [81] | Comments [3]
* just for the record, we didn't actually call it that... i just thought of it then and thought it was funny... i'm pretty cool, i know. ANYWAY. first thing first, sorry that this is ridiculously late, but, to be honest, since iona isn't here to remind ... Read more >
Tags: deep fried mars bar
visa
freezing cold
IRELAND | Sunday, 4 Oct 2009 | Views [170] | Comments [1]
so, historic tour of scotland over (with particular emphasis on all the places my dad has crashed vintage cars throughout the st andrews area during his university years), we wound up back in glasgow to send my sad little sister back to australia for ... Read more >
Tags: yall, guinness, teenage mums, giants causeway
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 19 Sep 2009 | Views [153] | Comments [3]
The wedding of iona's cousin ewen and his new wife annie was the main reason we came to scotland, and so when the day arrived, we were, safe to say, reasonably excited (and not only because of the scottish dancing we had been promised). we (being the ... Read more >
Tags: scottish dancing, wedding, iona
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 11 Sep 2009 | Views [167] | Comments [2]
after arriving comically early at spain's alicante airport for our really cheap flight to glasgow (we thought we were clever by scoring a place in sleazyjet's 'boarding group B' until we found out that the boarding groups actually only extend to B) and ... Read more >
Tags: glasgow, sauchiehall, corran ferry, ardgour, scottish dancing
SPAIN | Tuesday, 8 Sep 2009 | Views [141]
the next part of our spanish adventure was basically a combination of 2 things: a complete lack of knowledge about good places to go, and the realisation that we had a week left in spain and nothing planned to do... basically we hit up seville (where ... Read more >
Tags: seville, alicante, overnight bus, supermarkets (our new hang zone)
SPAIN | Wednesday, 2 Sep 2009 | Views [275] | Comments [2]
...was not to embarrass ourselves with our terrible spanish, nor to drink a lot of sangria, nor to enjoy the almost laughably laid-back spanish lifestyle (siesta often begins around midday and continues until about 9 the following morning), although ... Read more >
Tags: la tomatina
SPAIN | Sunday, 30 Aug 2009 | Views [152] | Comments [4]
sup friends. BASICALLY when we left you a couple of days ago (we are now so up to date with this blog its insane) we were about to make the trek from angouleme down to barcelona, which was made infinitely easier for us by manon's lovely auntie who ... Read more >
FRANCE | Sunday, 23 Aug 2009 | Views [151]
we're going on a bit of a rampage updating this blog but it's so much easier if we just get it up to date rather than running about three weeks behind forever more, although this may give you the impression that we spent a very busy 24 hours in france ... Read more >
Tags: euro disney, louis vuitton, frogs legs, snails
FRANCE | Sunday, 23 Aug 2009 | Views [138] | Comments [3]
hey girls (and boys) hey as luck, and i like to think karma would have it, the day we returned from our summer holiday at ile d'oleron (the only place we had to wear jeans so far) to angouleme the nice weather came out to play. this was, i think, natures ... Read more >
FRANCE | Sunday, 23 Aug 2009 | Views [202] | Comments [1]
apologies for taking almost a month to update you all on our adventures but in the few times when we've had internet access in the past three weeks facebook has unfortunately taken precedent, or failing that we've been booking things etc. and i didn't ... Read more >
Tags: ile doleron, camping, french lifeguards
ITALY | Monday, 10 Aug 2009 | Views [211] | Comments [2]
NOW i know you've probably been waiting with baited breath for the next instalment of our lovely blog, but iona and i like to keep you on your toes, because it makes us feel important to have people checking to see if we've written anything new. and ... Read more >
ITALY | Tuesday, 28 Jul 2009 | Views [274] | Comments [3]
SO after a not very exciting series of flights from santorini to rome, and a very expensive train ride into the centre of town (but what were we to do? not go into rome? ha!), we arrived at Termini Station and realised we knew the name of our hostel ... Read more >
GREECE | Wednesday, 22 Jul 2009 | Views [217] | Comments [2]
hey hey hey because we are very clever, we are keeping up to date, and so now you get to find out about the incredible, tiring, beautiful, reasonably hectic greek islands. lucky you. even though it was us who went... MYKONOS As Iona said in the ... Read more >
GREECE | Wednesday, 15 Jul 2009 | Views [192] | Comments [5]
so as Vivienne last left us (i believe she mentioned something about my complete loss of dignity in front of a large crowd), we were sitting in a Bangkok internet cafe killing time very effectively. well, there is little to report of the journey between ... Read more >
THAILAND | Tuesday, 30 Jun 2009 | Views [189] | Comments [4]
HEY HEY HEY since we last left you, iona and i have discovered a new limit to the amount of time that can be spent on an undeniably crap asian bus. before we had to travel from vang vieng (near the top of laos) to koh tao (at the bottom of thailand) ... Read more >
LAOS | Wednesday, 24 Jun 2009 | Views [378] | Comments [3]
we were a bit sad to leave luang prabang, but it's common knowledge that the most fun thing to do in laos is undoubtedly 'tubing' down the mekong near the town of vang vieng, an activity which basically involves jumping in a truck tyre inner tube and ... Read more >
Tags: tubing
lao lao
tiger whisky
rope swing
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