Dec 27th, 2006
Had a fun day today battling England’s Boxing Day transport. No trains were running at all to get us back from the Isle of Wight so headed to Portsmouth to get a bus. Arrived and waited for the first bus only to learn that they were booked out for the entire aftrenoon. Lacking options, and [...]
Dec 22nd, 2006
Last day at work – very little to do as you can probably tell. I have finally managed to download our pictures from our time in Scotland – have updated previous posts with relevant images.
I hope everyone has an excellent Christmas wherever that may be, the next report is likely to be from Israel (or [...]
We have just returned from our first bona-fide British Pantomime experience. We saw James & the Giant Peach (admittedly not a classic panto tale but fun nevertheless). Surrounded by hordes of screaming children – “that peach is plastic!” “You’re ugly too Aunt Spiker”, “look behind you James!” it was certainly memorable. We were attending as [...]
Dec 18th, 2006
This is coming to you live from our lounge room as we finally have broadband connected at our new place (after several false starts). I should be posting a little more regularly now. All we need now is the cable for our camera and I’ll get some of our UK photos posted.
Recovering from our housewarming [...]
Dec 11th, 2006
We hit the road early on Saturday morning after an unexpectedly late Friday night spent chatting in our flat (after watching Pan’s Labyrith – a must see at Glasgow’s world’s tallest cineplex). Our destination was a small pub and Scotland’s smallest distillery in Pitlochry in the Grampian Mountains. While we didn’t quite make it [...]
Dec 7th, 2006
In true Australian fashion we were in our place less than 3 days before we received our first visitor. There is plenty of room, and the sofa bed seems to work ok – so anyone else is more than welcome!
We have been catching up for the last few days, but are hitting the town tonight [...]
Dec 1st, 2006
Finally moved into our own place yesteday – a ground floor tenement flat in the West End of Glasgow. It isn’t ideal (a bit over the top actually) but it will do while we get settled, and was better than much of the dross we were looking at. I’ll post some pictures once our boxes [...]