Archive for the 'Traveller's Tales' Category

We arrived in Prague a little tired and grumpy - two and a half days travelling takes its toll! We didn’t like having to skim through so much country without a break, but it was the price we had to pay for having taken the side trip to Croatia. We hadn’t booked accommodation [...]

I apologise that my blog is not yet up to date! Special apologies to Olwen who is still waiting with baited breath for my account of the performance of Jamie Bamber in Dr Faustus (or perhaps she has given up on me…). Rest assured I will get up to date with that and [...]

After another quick wander around the town, mainly in search of a postcard to send Jill, the librarian at my school in Australia, I began the leg of my journey to Chester. However before I could get away I had to wait for no less than 40 minutes while the woman parked behind me [...]

I didn’t leave Bath straight away the following morning, because there was one thing more I wanted to do. I had found out that there was an exhibition of the art of E.H. Shepard, who did the original illustrations of Winnie-the-Pooh! I thoroughly enjoyed the exhibition, particularly the ways in which he illustrated [...]

I arrived at Lyme Regis late in the afternoon. I had a small map of the town in my Lonely Planet guide, and the street on which my B&B was located seemed quite normal – until I turned in to it – it was no more than a glorified footpath! Thankfully only one-way [...]

Forgive me for having taken so long to update this. I can only access the Internet at school, and life has been so busy lately, trying to mark GCSE coursework and Year 7 exams!
In February I had my first Half-term break. One glorious week to potter about the English countryside! I decided [...]

Last Friday night I braved Friday evening peak hour and took the train into London then out again to St Albans. Now I know what it feels like to be a cow on a semi-trailer, although I was going somewhere much nicer than an abattoir! I arrived at about 7pm after a 2 [...]

I took myself off to the theatre again on Saturday. I wasn’t sure if I would do anything much as I still wasn’t well, and walking in the cold air was doing nothing for my cough. However come Saturday morning I decided I was up to a train trip into London with minimal [...]

I had the opportunity to attend the Prime Minister’s Question Time at the British Parliament on Wednesday 26th (Australia Day, ironically!). The very hard to come by tickets were arranged for me by my exchange partner who organised them through the local MP, Angela Smith. I attended with another staff member.
We were asked [...]

For the past two weekends I’ve done the tourist thing on London on Saturdays. Last weekend I went to Westminster Abbey, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I was there only about an hour before it was due to close for Evensong, so the crowds were dissipating, and towards the end I was able to [...]