Greenwich We decided to head out to Greenwich for half a day, and lucky for us, chose a lovely blue-skied day to do so. Mum, Dad and I boarded a ferry for the journey up the Thames at 10am and arrived in Greenwich about an hour later. The journey up was really good, getting to see London sights from the river. It was good getting to go under the Tower Bridge, and to see the Tower of London, London Eye etc from a different angle. The first thing that ...

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...

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...