Goodbye UK, Hello World!

Tip: Check out your options

I’ve not posted much on here recently as I’ve not one a lot of travelling since I got back last summer. However, I’m trying to organise some things for Easter and summer and thought I’d pop another “Tip” post up. This really applies to you if you’ve got a bit of spare time around the dates [...]

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Tip: Check out your options

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Saturday in Thurso

The weather wasn’t quite so good today, but Laurie took me out for a stroll regardless. Thurso’s not a large place in any respect, but it’s pleasant to walk around. We stopped off at the local museum, which was re-opened in a new location in 2008. It’s now branded Caithness Horizons and it encompasses the Thurso [...]

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Saturday in Thurso

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Dunnet Head

My original plan for the day was to go to John o’Groats, which is about an hour away by bus. However, I was reliably informed by my kind host that there really isn’t a lot there apart from a pub. As it’s not tourist season, the famed signpost is stripped bare. They usually charge for [...]

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Dunnet Head

A quick trip north My first little trip in a while and another...
Saturday in Thurso The weather wasn’t quite so good today, but Laurie took...
A quick trip round northern England – part 1 I’m a little over halfway round a quick nip round...

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A quick trip north

My first little trip in a while and another UK-based one. Laurie is working as a schoolteacher up in Thurso, about as far north as you can go without your feet getting wet, and invited me up any time I wanted. Partly as it’s a nice place to show people around and partly as it’s [...]

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A quick trip north

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Insult? Meet Injury.

The following morning I re-checked my new flights. Amusingly, Tenerife South Airport’s website was still listing Globespan’s two flights as on time. I’d spoken to a couple from Aberdeen who should have been on the other flight to me and they’d coughed up £1000 to get home. Ow. Another person told me a friend of hers [...]

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Insult? Meet Injury.

Are you sure you have flights home? Up early this morning to check on the situation...
Quick trip to Tenerife This was fairly last-minute so I didn’t really mention it...
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Are you sure you have flights home?

Up early this morning to check on the situation regarding Globespan. A quick click onto their website and all seems fine. Flights still for sale, all hunky dory. Then onto the BBC website, the Telegraph, some travel industry site… “Globespan goes bust”, “Largest Scottish Air Carrier Collapses Leaving 5000 Stranded”. Back to Globespan’s page. A quick forced [...]

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Are you sure you have flights home?

Insult? Meet Injury. The following morning I re-checked my new flights. Amusingly, Tenerife...
Birthday in the sun My first full day on holiday was a) busy and...
Siam Park… and the beginnings of a problem We’d picked a good day as the rain from Tuesday...

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Siam Park… and the beginnings of a problem

We’d picked a good day as the rain from Tuesday and the overnight downpour had cleared the sky. Nice blue sunshine blazed down as we pattered around the park trying the rides. There are long slow ones, and scary big ones. Ones you go down in a tube by yourself, some in doublers and a [...]

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Siam Park… and the beginnings of a problem

Are you sure you have flights home? Up early this morning to check on the situation...
Insult? Meet Injury. The following morning I re-checked my new flights. Amusingly, Tenerife...
Quick trip to Tenerife This was fairly last-minute so I didn’t really mention it...

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Doing nothing at all

Today I took the opportunity to do something I rarely do: nothing. Well, not exactly nothing but very little. A lie in followed by a long read. A late – and large – full English breakfast. More reading. Some chilling, and then a bit of a relax. Christina and I then decided to make the most of [...]

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Doing nothing at all

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Birthday in the sun

My first full day on holiday was a) busy and b) my birthday. As mentioned yesterday, I decided to treat myself to a couple of dives, partly to try to make sure I didn’t need a PADI refresher as I’m required to dive every 6 months or I have to sit a course. Which is [...]

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Birthday in the sun

Doing nothing at all Today I took the opportunity to do something I rarely...
Quick trip to Tenerife This was fairly last-minute so I didn’t really mention it...
Are you sure you have flights home? Up early this morning to check on the situation...

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Quick trip to Tenerife

This was fairly last-minute so I didn’t really mention it much on here, but when I finished my school placements (and for other reasons) I just needed to get the hell away from the UK for a bit. Unwind, chill out, avoid the internet and pretend the rest of the world didn’t exist. Fortunately, I know [...]

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Quick trip to Tenerife

Insult? Meet Injury. The following morning I re-checked my new flights. Amusingly, Tenerife...
Doing nothing at all Today I took the opportunity to do something I rarely...
Birthday in the sun My first full day on holiday was a) busy and...

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