I am a happy chappy

Yo homies, what up?

I am just relaxing in my house, eating frozen raspberries, doing a bit of research work, and, until recently, was enjoying a nice cup of slim cappuccino mix. That was when I found great big lumps of crap strewn throughout said coffee. I am unimpressed Nestle, totally, utterly, UN-IM-PRESSED.

Pretty busy as of late, I know I always say that but this time it is true - This week I've got 2 Rotary presentations, a trip to a steel works, a short course on gas safety, sign up session for a Welsh language course, hiking club meeting, and on Sunday hopefully a hike from Chepstow to Tintern Abbey, a historical abbey on the border of Wales and England. I'm hoping to fit a game of squash or two in there somewhere as well! I have no more words, here is a photo of me falling into a pile of snow (always amusing) :

Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away...

Thought I would make a list of everywhere I want to go in the next few years, so if anyone wants to go there too, let me know and maybe we can travel together :D ... Or if you know anywhere you think I should especially go, let me know!

Hopefully Between Now and October 2010

ENGLAND:

• London - Specifically the bridges, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, the Eye, Westminster Abbey, Greenwich, Museums, the Tower
• Manchester
• The Forest of Dean
• The White Cliffs of Dover (from a boat on the way back from France??!!)
  
• Cornwall
• Cambridge
• Bognor Regis
• Bristol - Specifically the Industrial Museum, SS Great Britain, and possibly the Zoo
  

SCOTLAND:

• Edinburgh - Specifically the haunted sewers
• Inverness (Lochness Monster)
• Aberdeen
  
• Some rugged rural area of Scotland
• Maybe Glasgow

North and South IRELAND:

• Belfast
• Dublin
• Giants Causeway
• Cliffs of Moher
• Pretty much the whole land!

WALES:

• Bangor
• Hiking in Snowdonia
• Camping in the Brecon Beacons
• Big Pit (a big mine)
• Haverfordwest and Pembrokeshire
• Aberystwyth

October 2010

ASIA:

• Some cheap country where I can stop off at for about 5 days, so I can experience some Asian culture as well as relaxing and chilling out, without it costing too much! Perhaps Vietnam or Laos? Keen for ideas though!

October 2010 - February 2011

AUSTRALASIA:

• South Island of NZ
• Gisborne
• Wellington
• Whangarei
• Sydney / Brisbane ...?

February 2011 onwards

EUROPE:

• France - Northern and Southern and everywhere! Alsace, Limoges...
• Greece
• Egypt (just to see the pyramids)
• Spain
• Italy
• Germany
• Switzerland
• Ukraine
• Turkey - Gallipoli for ANZAC day
• Dubai
  

Welcome to 2010!

Hello hello hello!

I hope you all had a fantastic Xmas and New Year! I totally did, although it was a lot different from the ones I have in NZ. I missed my friends and family, and I think I can safely say I have experienced my first bout of genuine home sickness :-( Nevertheless, I had a great holiday and ate too much and all that jazz - check out my latest videos on my Rotary blog to see what I was up to and where I went. I would like to say that I visited Stonehenge, and it was amazing. It is such a magical place, and just the feeling I got when I was there was something I will always remember. I would definitely recommend it - it's fairly cheap, at only 6 quid or something like that, and you can walk round at your own pace. Someone had previously told me it was a pile of rocks. It is. But WHY is it there? It's like these massive shaped rocks, all meticulously placed, and it's very old, but no one knows why it was made! Love love love it.
I missed all of you in NZ, I had christmas with 2 other girls which was cosy, but very different from the normal 10-20 odd that are generally hanging round on xmas day for me. I missed New Years in NZ - spending 4-5 days at the beach somewhere, chilling out all day every day on deck chairs, playing soccer or frisbee on the grass or sand, getting sunburnt, swimming, having a bonfire, sleeping in tents, even that gritty feeling you get when you haven't washed your face for a few days because you left your facewash at home! Although I did have a raging night club, and my ears were ringing right through until January 4th so I guess I did have 4-5 days of partying... I guess.
Anyway, I'm right back in it, going to work etc etc boring boring, but am planning a day trip to Cardiff next week and a long weekend to Haverfordwest ASAP - they currently have hazardous driving conditions due to the heavy snow ... HAH!