I am playing catch up a bit with my blog. I guess the idea that I am leaving UK in less than a week has spurred me on to be up to date. The reason I went to Liverpool was to have a visa interview. But as I no longer qualified for the visa and could not get a refund on the air tickets and accommodation, I went anyway. You would have read about the stop over in Dublin. The nature of cheap Ryanair flights, all stop overs are in Ireland. Anyway I had 2 nights in Liv...

Many people told me about Rye. Apparently it is one of the best preserved medieval towns in England. This was backed up by Lonely Planet, the travelers bible. So given I had the day off and am rapidly trying to fill my bucket list and see as much as I can before I leave the UK. I caught the train to Rye. As train trips go in England it is quite nice going across the Pett Level and past Winchelsea. Rye station is a let down though. It is on the far side of a car ...

It has been a while since I have needed to recover from a weekend, but the last 4 days have been a run of music and partying. Hastings Old Town has many events through the warmer months, most I will miss unless I get back here, but the season starts with the 'Fat Tuesday' music carnival. Themed around the Venice Masked Carnival. It started on Friday night and went through till Tuesday night. Saturday I met some friends at the Royal Standard for the regular chee...

Well I am sitting in my favourite pub having walked down along the seafront. It has been snowing all day and settling nicely. There were a few slips but I did not end up on my arse. I walked past the theatre that I saw "a Christmas Carol" in last night and past the pier. I was not alone as many people were out enjoying the snow. England tends to panic at the first sign of snow and 5 cms is enough to close Heathrow. But I love it. It makes the world quiet as it da...

As much as Anouk would like to think she is the centre of my universe, I am referring, on this occasion, to my physical universe. And this is my little flat in St Leonard's-On-Sea, East Sussex. Which due to all the commas, capitals and dashes in the town name is more difficult to type that reading Welsh. So for a lot of the time I shall refer to it as SLOS, which is quicker to write. With my previous blogs it has been a goal to get somewhere or do something, thi...