English Travels

So recently I have been getting those itchy feet again, I am sure it is caused by lack of travel and constant routine.

Then I got an invite to go see some friends I met in this year in America, my trip would consist of getting the bus down to Manchester, a train to Southport, drive to Stafford and then drive down to Worcester. I got to see some of my amazing camp family, some of them I haven't seen for over a year. To get home I was drove to Birmingham airport before flying back up to Scotland.

Quite a mouthful isn't it?

So since I've been home and reminiscing my last 3 summers in the states, everyone has been asking me the dreaded question.... what about next year?

I am on my second year at college doing travel and tourism, the final degree year is only a possibility, not a guarantee, in this day of age have the grades and the certificate doesn't always get you the job. So I am still undecided on what next year will bring, never mind if going back for another year of awesome games, paint, lake, songs, and general FUN will be on the cards.

Only now the cold has set in.... I am almost positive I am going back.

I cant handle this freezing temperature, must chase the sunshine everywhere I go now lol.

Here are some great pics from my travels the other weekend.

Every hundred feet... the world changes!



IM BACK!!

OK! so I kind of lost my way, I spent  the summer in NY again at camp having the most amazing time. 10 days training, 9 weeks of hard grafting followed by 4 days of chilling on a New Jersey beach.

EPIC!!

Only It seems I can't travel for long without something going wrong...

I love spending my summers in America, who wouldn't want to get paid to sun it and look after some of the funniest kids I have ever met? 

But here is what happened, remember the plans of adding an extra 5 states onto the ones I had already been to? well the plan was underway until me and my friend Adam hit a wall, neither of us were over 25. This meant that no matter what, the cost of hiring a car was going to be ridiculous. So a friend of ours decided to join in the fun, he was 25. BONUS! not only will we get to travel with our friend but he can be the main driver on the car so that it will be cheap. 

Only the day or two before we left camp, he tells us that his driving licence was back in the UK. Idiot! The travelling plans from then went to absolute crap. Luckily with some quick thinking we ended up in Seaside Heights at the Jersey Shore. Sounds great doesn't it? But i still had a flight booked for 10 days after our trip to the beach. 

Everyone managed to change their flights to an earlier day except for me, WARNING! MAKE SURE WHEN BOOKING WITH SKYSCANNER THAT YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR FLIGHT, EVEN AT A COST!  I couldn't, I was told that no matter what, I would have to buy a new flight. This involved me having to borrow money from a friend back home so that I could buy a brand new flight. I'm quite glad actually because I got to go home via Iceland, the 11 hour layover and extra 4 hour delay was not welcome mind. 

Finally I got home, It's very stressful to travel.

Till next time......

New Year, New Travels

So this is my first post of 2013 and guess what!!!

Yes that's right, I've got trips planed for the majority of the year, yay!!!  Next weekend I will be starting off small with a little trip to Broxburn just outside of Edinburgh, before the following weekend I jet off to London to see all the lovely people from camp last year.

This Summer I WILL be returning to the US of A and hopefully adding more states to my check list, i'm sure i'm at 11! By this time next year i'm aiming to of added at least another 5.

I'm going to get one of those travel quotes or travel related tattoo this year, not quite decided which one yet but I will definitely post about that once it's finished.

Travel quote of the week:

A ship in a harbour is safe, But that's not what ships were built for

So I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas and new year.

BYEEEEE!!