October 2009
6 posts
day 3+4
ELLOOOOOOOOO!
okay so yesterday we decided to do the canal cruise, it’s kind of like another hop on hop off go at your own pace deal-y. suits us well as we’re indecisive and like to have our options open! the canals are great! there’s no current whatsoever so it’s a very smooth ride, lots of ducks, HUGE pigeons.. I think they bred with an eagle along the line or something....
day #2
hello I’m not writing much today because this spacebar is ridiculously hard to press and I’m going to go crazy if I write a lot Today we did madam taussauds, it was fun! lot of cool people there, leading to lots of funny photos. we’re so stupenddddously tired, even still. boys did pub crawls last night and came in throughout the night, very noisy. plus, our room overlooks the...
amsterdam
hello folks
I was hoping this would be my catch-up blog, though there are lots of boys sleeping in our dorm and I didn’t want to go back in there to fumble for the keys to unlock the box with my luggage in it, and then find my diary. SO! I will just tell you about today and then catch up when I can next. The flight was only 50 minutes, of which I dozed (but unfortunately didn’t sleep...
hi
this is emma blogging letting you know that soon, i’m going to blog again. and much more in depth than this one. promise. <3
to mum and dad
herro. thankyou for finally blogging! you’re worse than me. i’ll finish off the greek blogs probably later today, as it’s a bit rainy and there’s not much to do. you both looked wonderful on your anniversary! bunch of goodlookers. was it a good day/night? dad - you couldn’t possibly have bought those flowers could you? they’re pretty! well done if so....
greece
wednesday 23rd (continued..) heya.. I wrote this diary entry in my book, and the last update I did was just off the top of my head. so it’ll be kinda disjointed but i’m sure you’ll figure it out. so.. back to the beach. We went to the beach, which was a very easy 5minute walk away, and lay in the sun for a while. About 20 minutes passed and we were sweltering so we decided to go...
September 2009
19 posts
to my OldFarts
aka parents herro I’m going to do a proper blog update soon I promise. just not today. aha. so i’ll reply to your blogs which I lurrrvvvvvv reading (so keep doing them!) The photos from (Wicklow?) were truly superb, a few of them could happily grace a picture frame in our house. The guinness lake shots could have been done by a professional! Thanks! sam and I are taking turns using...
AAHHHHHHHHHHH
don’t have much time online just found a place to come and very quickly say we just met vince colosimo (underbelly, city homicide, secret life of us etc) and nick gianopolis (the wog boy) whilst they were filming the sequel to the wog boy! ARGHHH! ahahahhaha
hgitudrhuighf
we got photos with them. will upload when I can!
very exciting! :)
greece continued..
so when we picked our bags up again Sam decided to carry the big bag all by herself haha. hugging it. from our hotel, up about 4 blocks to the tour bus stop (from earlier in the day) as we realised the best and cheapest/free way to get to Piraes was to catch the tour bus to Omonia and use our tour bus tickets for the metro. weee. sam has just about broken her spine in the process. once we reaches...
reply to mum&dad
We are all fine and dandy. Dad & I have spent the weekend in the back garden weeding and planting trying to get it ready for summer. It has been so hot that it is scary. I am still wearing my shorts and it is 8 at night. It might be a really hot summer. wow! do you know what the actual max temperature has been?! sounds like i’ll be leaving greece.. goign back to england.. and going home...
hello
just letting everyone know we’re alive safe and well. currently in Ios in an internet cafe for a very short amount of time coz it’s severely overpriced. santorini was beautiful, very amazing place. the night on the ‘yacht’ aka sailing boat was interesting, I slept fairly well considering but unfortunately sam slept pretty horribly. though she caught up with a decent sized...
Greece!
Day 1/ Arrive in Athens 9:40.. approx. It was already dark. Had to wait for our bag at the baggage claim for a while. It eventually came. slightly disappointed coz it’s so damn heavy. we asked the tourist info desk what the best way to our hotel was. he suggested a bus to the city centre of athens and then a taxi to the hotel from there. the bus was cheap. but long. it was well after 11 when...
crying cockels and mussels a-live a-live ohhh
Dublin Pt2 We didn’t end up going on the Pub Crawl on the saturday that I last updated - we were knackereddd so we just went to bed. On the Sunday we went to the Septemberfest thing at Farmleigh Park near Dublin Zoo, it was fun. I don’t think we managed to see all of it, it didn’t seem as big as I expected. but it was good, I liked it. it was really sunny and hot hot, no cold...
parents
hello
are you not getting my texts or are you just not replying to them? they aren’t that important I suppose but still, let me know which it is! don bourke? claim to fame! gotta go I have 10 seconds left! love you!
So where was I. Ah yes the Zoo and Ghost Tour. There was a meerkat enclosure that you viewed from inside a restaurant which was kinda fun as you were eye-level with them instead of looking over a wall. I got some hilarious photos of them all playfighting. Couldn’t find the red pandas - sorry rose! There was an adorable white owl though. There was a sleeping jaguar which was AMAZING and...
dublin
E’YUP! it’s miss turgood here reporting from te city of dublin. te weater has been quite nice, tough (as in though..) a little bit windy. noone says th, just like I remember. it’s hilarious. there was a girl called elizabeth who was being called by her mother. ELIZABET.. COME BACK! ELIZABET PLEASE SLOW DOWN barrrharharhar. Okay, so our trip so far: We arrived yesterday morning at...
parisss
Heya. I’m in dublin and wanna do a post on it thus far but don’t want paris to be out of order. so I’m posting the first couple of days, and I’ll come back and update it after. does that make sense? so check back on this particular blog again in a few days and I”ll have added a little more. xoxoxoxo
Day 1 Arrive at about 9am. The flight was fine.. glad our bags got...
i'm back
sorry for the scare okay there is no incredible sense-making answer for why we missed our flight. for some reason we had both been convinced for weeks that our flight home was at night, when it was in fact in the morning. we went to check in early that morning so that we didn’t have to do it at the airport and it wouldn’t let us, so we went to an internet/phone cafe and called up...
important
any family member, call my mobile when you read this please
x
dad
thankyou very much for the many forms of contact regarding the time difference. sorry, I did see that you wrote it. I must have forgotten to reply to it in my last blog. I will keep very aware of the time difference whilst deciding what time to head to the airport tomorrow. thankyou, stresshead. x
To Nana
Dear Nan, Bonjour from Paris! I’m having a great time over here. We got here on Tuesday and were far too exhausted to do anything, we just collapsed in bed! It took us hours to find the way from the airport to our hostel. On Tuesday we went to Disneyland Paris which was amazing, definitely let the inner child back out. Yesterday we went to see the Louvre Museum, the Arc de Triomphe and the...
in reply to my parents
just coz you posted so many blogs since… yesterday! i’m not living off bananas, they’re too expensive. living off ricecakes instead. yuck but only 70 euro cents for a pack. super. free breakast is awesome i’ve been having heaps of muesli cereal with dried fruit and clusters of nuts. and croissants. yummm!!! disneyland was a fairly random decision but it was worth it it was...
oh.. it changed the colour for me. excellent. it’s okay i don’t think anyone would react anymore than usual if I said ciao instead of au revoir. i keep accidently saying bonjour instead of au revoir. and bonjour instead of merci. I suck. x
How were the Walkley Kids, have they grown much, do they know about their trip to Oz next year? thanks amy. now I can’t change the colour of the writing. grumble. but….. yes they’ve grown! rosie is very very tall for her age and I always have to remind myself that she’s still very young. henry is the same except it’s like he’s just been stretched out. he’s...
WHATS THE WEATHER LIKE? it’s been drizzly today so far… not too bad though. quite cool which i’m actually enjoying. it’s meant to warm up over the next few days i believe. the metro is boiling hot and sticky though. yeuch I was hating it. IS THERE MUCH ENGLISH SPEAKING, HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO SPEAK FRENCH TO ANYONE? we’ve said our hellos and thankyous in french but...
August 2009
9 posts
oops I have a lot to catch up on in very little time as i’ve stolen adams computer…
alton towers was AMAZING. oblivion was all it was cracked up to be. terrifying but hilariously fun. if you don’t know what it is, google it. it’s insane. also this right called “air” where you get into your seat and have your harness put on, then your seat goes back so...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JENNY! :)
okay I’m a bit stuck on what we’ve been doing so this might seem all a bit jumbled up. I keep forgetting what days are what.
OH for some reason I was imagining an extra day. between chatsworth and stephs. but there isn’t. okay now I can start. so there was chatsworth park on sat………. WAIT. oh god there was an extra day. sorry I’m SO out of it ahahah. okay...
hewwo there. I forgot to say that we went to markeaton park yesterday. oh the memories! that place is HUGE! really pretty, too. today dave elliott came around to pick us up and we went to chatsworth park. that “ch” place hahah. it was AMAZING! really good to see him aswell, he’s so full of great stories! kept us entertained for the day. we got picked up between 10:30 and 11, and...
ello ello just about to head to…….. that “ch” place with steph, alex and dave elliot. I keep forgetting what it’s called ahahah but it sounds like it’d be quite good! the weather is pretty nice.. keeps getting cloudy and yesterday it rained about 3 or 4 times in short spurts, with sun in between. it was nice. went to the nags head last night. I think we were 2...
we have a mobile!
07500411482 this is our mobile number. useee itttt! message us. (to mum&dad, I have tried calling you about 5 times. I know it’s early morning but I thought dad might be up. Don’t freak. Sam was just in the shower and I was bored and wanted to talk to you guys. I haven’t for days! Hope you’re both well. How is dudley?) we’re just popping to the nags head for a...
short one. don’t have a mobile yet. want one badly. never know what time it is because mobile phones are modern-day watches. don’t even know what day it is most of the time we keep wondering if it’s thursday or friday. got a “zigzag” ticket on the bus today with aunty alison which lets you go from derby to mickleover as many times as you please on the bus for £4.60....
marmite
heya, you alright? (ahahah) sam
loves
marmite it’s pretty much vegemite. it’s a little gooier. kind of stringier. a little lighter in colour. but it’s pretty yum. we’ve had it twice now. sam three times. hahahah. we fell asleep at 7:30ish last night. it took us SO much effort to stay awake until then. especially sam. but we both knew that we had to stay awake...
oh p.p.p.p.p.s what do you mean someone was calling? on the home phone? really? asking for me? at 11pm?!?!? I’m so confused!
hello.
thought i’d follow mum and dads lead. mum - how is my bed? comfy? get out of it. my bed. are you still sick? dudley is having chemo? i thought we decided against that. that wasn’t the middle option we were going for was it? i’m confused, do explain. tell me how whateveritis goes though. okay. our updates: found nags head! found the the vine! found tesco! found our old...