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...

LISA Our Australia Day in Liverpool Hi all, It's Lisa here. Yes, Paul has finally persuaded me to write something for our blog. It's not that I'm lazy (really), I've just been doing all of my study first, instead of procrastinating :p OK, anyway, enough of that, I'll get on with the story hey? This Saturday just gone we went on a trip to Liverpool (the European Capital of Culture for 2008) with the exchange society of the Uni. Just as a side note, the Student...

PAUL Well we thought we'd better write some stories to go with the pictures we've put up so here comes the next chapter of our trip… We arrived in Manchester around 6:20am GMT and managed to get through customs with relative ease (definitely glad we flew into Manchester and not Heathrow now). Having come from Abu Dhabi I guess you could say we weren't all that well dressed for the climate we found ourselves in. So after quick change of clothes we loaded...