In the middle of the heat wave, I decided that I needed to get out of London for the day and was tossing up between Brighton and Cambridge. Lucky for me, I decided against Brighton as Londoner's flocked there that weekend due to the soaring temperatures. I recruited a great group of girls (Tracey, Bec and Cecilia) to go to Cambridge with me, and they were a major reason why the day was such a huge success. Jumping on a train at Kings Cross station around 10a...

The Cotswolds My visit to the Cotswolds was on a day trip organised by tracks travel (www.tracks-travel.com) and included a visit to three separate little villiages in the area referred to as the Cotswolds. The Cotswolds is in central England and covers the area between Oxford, Stratford, Cheltenham and Bath. The first village we went to was called Burford. Burford is picturesque and has beautiful 14th ~ 16th Century houses. Our visit here involved a w...

Edinburgh With another long weekend at the end of May, I decided to head up to Edinburgh with Matt, Kel, Cecilia and Bec. We boarded a train very early on Saturday morning for the 5 hour trip and managed to entertain ourselves by sleeping and then playing uno. We arrived in Edinburgh early afternoon and immediately went to our hostel, located just off the royal mile. The Royal Mile is the main street through Edinburgh's Old Town, and runs a mile in length...

Paris I headed off to Paris with Bec, Kel and Matt. Our adventurous weekend started when we got to the Eurostar check in counter at 6am and found that our tickets hadn't been confirmed by the travel agent and therefore we didn't have the tickets we'd paid for! After forking out another £200 we jumped on a later train and arrived in Paris. The journey on the Eurostar over was really quick and Matt amused me by constantly asking on each tunnel we went through...

Cardiff We caught a train from Salisbury to Cardiff and arrived in Cardiff after lunch. Once again, our first stop was our hostel to dump our bags before we walked over into the main part of town. Our first thought was that there was nothing open in Cardiff and we blamed it on the fact that it was Easter Sunday. I have since found out that that's just the way Cardiff is. The castle, however, was open and we managed to get on the last tour of the da...