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...

LISA To continue our adventures... This past Saturday saw us getting up ridiculously early again (6.45am - It's cold and dark here remember) so that we would have time to print out some tourist-y maps at uni before having to board our bus to Newcastle. After some rushing, and a brisk walk in the cold, we made it on time and secured the front seats. We know from experience that these are the best seats in the bus as they give you almost 270degree views of the ...

PAUL ...and his merry men It may be over 700 years since Robin Hood was supposed to have lived, but the county of Nottinghamshire certainly isn't going to let that stop them from hanging on to their favourite legend that continues to bring them hope, joy and £££. On Saturday (2 Feb), we went on a day trip with the university's student union to walk in the footsteps of England's favourite outlaw (or something like that). We were lucky enough to h...

PAUL Becoming Loiners (People from Leeds apparently) These entries may be slightly out of chronological order now but not to worry. I'm sure you'll all figure it out. I think that as we travel around a bit the journal entries will become slightly mixed up as it arranges entries by place name. However, if you click on the orange RSS Feed icon in the top right corner you will see all the entries listed in the order in which they were added with the most recent fi...