Europe

Today we decided to explore the area of Greenwich, which is an area down the Thames a bit that has a lot of maritime history associated with it. We caught the tube as far as the Docklands precinct, walked through Docklands and then walked through a pede...

Hi Blavellers! So we had our second day of sightseeing in London yesterday. We started the day by catching the underground to Green Park and we walked to Hyde Park for lunch. It's a really nice area around there (well, I suppose it has to be seeing as i...

Sorry we haven't written for a while, we have been staying in dodgy hostels with limited access to the internet. I have to say that I don't really understand why they say that you have to be at the airport three hours before departure time. Seems like a...

Whilst travelling around the UK, I was fortunate enough to spend a weekend in June in Orkney with Norah and John, some wonderful friends of my aunt and uncle. Norah and my aunt have been penpals for many years and have also met a number of times. Norah a...

Had a fantastic time in Bayern (Bavaria) with AnkoNick's family. We stayed for five nights with Nick's Tante (aunty) Johanna, in her gorgeous house in Unterbachern, about 30 minutes out of Munchen (Munich) and 5 minutes from Dachau, with beautiful count...

We made a one night stop to dusseldorf to visit our friend Joan last tuesday, and also to have a look around and scope out the town as a possible place to live when we come for a year or two. Dusseldorf was nice enough, and we had a good time in our shor...

In May, while I was visiting the UK, I was fortunate enough to spend a few days in Cornwall with an old friend from my teachers' college days, Margaret, who I had not seen since she moved back to England with her family 30 years ago. The last I saw of he...

After my first time visit to the UK, I plan to write on Blavel about some of the amazing places I saw, so I'll start with my favourite.... the highlands and Islands of Scotland. If you like big cities, nightlife, and warm weather, this might not be the i...

Like so many travellers will attest, the best trips are often not made by the scenery, monuments or museums that you see; they are made by the people that you ecounter. New friends and the subsequent realisation of the universality of human experience - ...

so ive been living in paris for nearly 4 months now, but there is still so much i am yet to see and do. the university im at here is insane, i can understand why so few parisian students have jobs on top of their studies... only a couple of weeks left u...