Archive for June, 2011

Final days in the UK

After leaving Cardiff, we took the train down to Salisbury to catch the bus to Stonehenge. Upon arriving in Stonehenge, we spoke with a Druid who was telling us all about the festivities over the last few days. We setup our tent for the first time and prepared for 2 days of relaxing/camping. The first […]

Luck of the Irish

After the 2nd period of the Canucks game, we headed to sleep in Belfast. Waking up a couple hours later to catch the early train north to Coleraine (activating our EuroPasses). From here we caught a bus to the Giant’s Causeway. After spending an hour or so here, we headed back down south to Belfast, […]

Nessy to Belfast

Well, after pulling an all-nighter watching game 6 (starting at 1am here) with a bunch of drunk Scot’s, we decided to go back into our room to get some shut-eye before our train back down to Glasgow. Well, after about 10 minutes in our 16 bed dorm, we decided to just leave right away. Maybe […]

I Want It That Way…

After a three day rest up at Jim’s we got back on the rail and went up to York for a brief walk about and then made our way to Newcastle where we stayed at the Albatross hostel.   NC was quite nice, lots of bridges over the Tyne.  We continued with our debauchery by buying […]

Borth, Borth

“No, my son is also named Borth!” We left Stratford-Upon-Avon a couple days ago and headed into western/northern Wales. After a long train ride, we arrived in a small town called Borth, overlooking the ocean. We checked in at the hostel and headed down the road to a local pub called “Danny’s”. After a few […]

London Calling

Our last few days in NYC contained a visit to the UN, Rockerfeller, Central Park Zoo and a Broadway Show (Jerusalem — amazing!). Central Park was a nice change from the big city… ‘earthy smells’. On the 4th, we caught a cab to Newark airport to catch our connecting flight to Toronto, then to London. […]

New York, New York!

It’s a hell of a town! We arrived late yesterday evening in muggy Newark after 12 hours of plane travel and made our way to the Park Central hotel where we are staying for 3 nights. With suits on we explored a little, had a few beers and then hit the hay to rest up […]

And Away We Go

Finally, June 1st has come, and I can not sleep despite the deprivation. Our flight leaves YYJ at 0645 and I am starting to get a little bit excited now. We will get into New York just after 2000 in time to watch the game. Not sure where we will be when the Nucks win […]