PAUL Our second day in London was all about great British institutions. Our first stop for the day was Buckingham Palace to watch the changing of the guard. Amazing sight no. 1: the number of people who decided to join us to watch despite the horribly typical English weather and the fact that it was on every second day at that time of year. The pictures and videos will probably give you a better picture of it all than I could so I won't try to describe the who...

PAUL Our tour around the south of England began on the Tuesday before Easter, with the nation's capital, London. After a slightly frantic morning of hair cuts put off until the last minute (Paul) and cooking up the remaining contents of our fridge to then freeze so as not to let it go to waste (mostly Lisa's doing), we managed to get ourselves into the Leeds city centre to catch our bus to London. Funnily enough, it cost us more to get from home to the city (&...

LISA First of all, you'll notice this blog entry is about a month late…yes, sorry about that, (tripping around the world and all :p), haven't had a chance to write it before now. So, long ago, on Saturday 15th March we set off on another adventure, this time to the city of Manchester, previously only seen from a plane window at 5am. We arrived at the same place as hundreds of visitors to the city since 1844 - Victoria Station. This experience of hi...

PAUL Birthdays, earthquakes and rhinos… Despite my best efforts and fleeing to the other side of the world in order to delay it, the Saturday before last (Feb 23) marked the end of my time as a teenager. Yes, I celebrated my 20th Birthday. The day started well with a bit of a sleep in, opening presents and cards from near and afar and then Li's specialty chocolate pancakes (mmm chocolate). The time for an early lunch came around quickly, having lazed arou...

LISA Well we have definately been rewarded for our patience with the cold, dismal weather with the city being turned into a veritable winter wonderland over the past two days! Yesterday we were excited to wake up to a snow covered landscape and I spent a lot of my spare time at uni braving the cold for the sake of photos. Today there wasn't any snow in Headingly, but as we got closer to uni it was white again. Hyde park was beautiful with snow covered trees and...