England Stories


Welcome to our travel journal!

Hello everyone, As you probably know, we are setting off back-packing around Bolivia and Peru in a few weeks. We are very excited about what we're going to see, the places we are are going to go and the people we're going to meet. We are hoping to share our experiences with you via this journal, we'll try and keep the posts interesting and amusing an...


England, Scotland, Ireland

7/16 Returned to Gatwick Airport from Dublin at 4 p.m. but didn’t leave the airport till 5:30 then ended up in a 12 mile traffic jam going to the Dartford Tunnel due to an accident. We got off the motorway to skirt London closer to the city but traffic was stop and go. Turned around and got back on the motorway heading in the opposite direction, a m...


England - Part 2

Sam headed back to Exeter on the train the next day – it was very sad to say goodbye to him after five days of travelling with him. All we had to do that day was travel two hours to the Cotswolds, but by the time we finally got packed up, and then returned twice to Bramley to pick up stuff we’d forgotten, we didn’t get to Stow-on-the-Wold until arou...


England – Part One

We landed safely at Heathrow and then proceeded through customs & immigration. Once again they didn’t check anything in our bags - NZ & Australia really are a lot more fussy about what they let into the country than the places we’re been to so far. We were also surprised at how antiquated things seemed at Terminal 4 in Heathrow – we had to line up for ...