This was the beginning of my first really long travel adventure, in which I took 9 weeks off work to do a Trafalgar Tour of Britain & Ireland, as well as an Insight Tour around Europe. Darren missed the first tour, but joined me for the European tour. I enjoyed travelling to so many different countries over a longer period of time than I had ever done before. There are so many places we visited on the tours, but let me start with the places I visited on the Briti...

England became my new home on Sunday 15th July 2001, staying this way until 1st October 2005 when I head to India for a few months and then back to Australia eventually. It has been a wonderful experience to live and work in England, an opportunity I wouldn't have missed for anything. My first job was a temporary accounting job in Bristol for three weeks, before I landed a permanent job at Transco in Exeter. Here I made two really good friends named Paul & Chris,...

Well I was only back from the Oz trip for about 3 days before Pete & I went off for a long weekend in Belfast, one of my most favourite cities to visit in the world. We did the Murals & Peacewall tour, as well as the tour which takes in the Antrim Coast, Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge & Giants Causeway, finishing off with a trip to the Bushmills Distillery where Pete was lucky enough to be one of the four people that got to sample about a dozen different whiskies, wh...

My third visit, only 3 months after the last time I visited Belfast, this time I brought my friend Jenny from work to show her the sights. We did the same Murals tour (I never get bored with this tour, it is so interesting to see), but we also picked up some brochures and did some walking tours around Belfast Waterfront, stopping to see various pieces of \'art\' (well, that\'s what they call it !) along the way. We also went to see the \'Vagina Monologues\' at th...