Well budgets are tight for this trip, have been off work for 4 months, including a trip back home and floundering in Blackpool looking for work, finally secured a job, worked for a week and I am off on holiday to TURKEY!! With three other turkeys - Amberley aka umbrella, Emma (Wilson) aka James, and Emma (Orjvich) aka Steve. 16 April 2011 Turns out it was cheaper to fly from London and to get there cheaply I took a lovely 6hour 50minute bus ride which actually ...

5 April 2010 After travelling through South East Asia for two months (see my other blog www.offexploring.com/brittnorth) I arrived in London at 10:45pm into Stanstead airport and lined up at boarder patrol for over an hour. Was planning on crashing at the airport until the time was more appropriate to arrive at my Ma's cousies doorstep but what do you know I was greeted by 2 smiling faces and hugs from Annie and Jenny after I breezed through customs, what champi...

09 October 2010 The Lion's 28th Birthday weekend began at the ungodly hour of 3:15am, one of the reasons we do not love this city, as it is not just a quick 10 minute drive down the airport straight like in Invercargill, no, it is a taxi ride to a train station to get a bus that takes about an hour to the airport!! However we also love it as it provides very cheap flights to Berlin - approx £50 return. The morning began smoothly, alarm went off, taxi arrived on...

Now this place is amster DAM good fun!!! 26/08/2010 Totally unprepared am I coming off the family holiday I arrive in Amsterdam mapless, luckily had a text from the hostel saying the address but nevertheless have no idea where that is and I do not speak Dutch! Luckily for me an hour or so later my compadre JT - not Justin Timberlak gfy, but Jenna Toms (recently arrived from NZ to London!!!!), equally as cool of course - arrives, with the trusty Lonely Planet qw...

20 August 2010 Up and packed, while we were waiting for the apartment dude we made the most of the wi-fi and here on facebook we discovered that Grace has not even left Italy, and was holed up at the Hilton as her plane was having mechanical difficulties!!! This went on for approximately 12 hours but she was treated to buffet meals, free bar and a huge big super king bed in her own room all at Pars' expense!! (Well probably not). Poor wee b***** finally departed...