I've been living in the UK almost 2 years now.. Close enough to say it's home. It's summer again and with all the tripping around I can't really say that I have seen the UK properly! My grandfather always use to say that you shouldn't really travel until you have seen your own country so in Mackenzie tradition I popped over to what some would call 'Gods Own' - Cardiff, Wales. The welsh were nothing short of hospitable and they turned out to be everything they s...

After a uk winter-fill of rain and coldness... i decided to take action and do what only a true brit would do in my case... plan a european mid winter summer break... Well to be honest i threw the idea out to Josie who intrue best budd form planned a fantastic week holiday away to the Canary Island ... Tenerife Baby!! The island was a british haven filled with very few spanish and loads of english even though it was off-season.. we spend the week soaking up the s...

From Beautiful Bath in England to Luxurious Les Get's in France... i some how ended up in Slough just outside london... how did it all go so wrong...?? :) Wait let me start from the beginning (it's a very good place to start.. for all those fans of sound of music) After my few months of exploring denmark and ireland i decided it was time to head back sunny ol' england (in the non sunny sense.. that is) But to turn each postive into a negative .. i didnt just h...

Well i have arrived !!!! and it is fantastic ... a slight problem with a cancelled flight in bangkok.. a very disorganised British Airways getting 400 hundread passengers who had been awake now 34hrs onto new flights and then slight misprint on my visa .. uk immigration questioning me why i was 5days early on arrival and there were some words about sending me out of the country again until my visa was valid... I DID NOT THINK SO!! The good ol' girl fake tears tri...