alana goes away

on our stormy way good old fisheye sam wins the lotto half a building either just before or just after the rain packin the polaroid away houses otp shadow ahoy the waterhouse the roman baths The weekend after Sam returned to the UK from his 7 week long stint in NZ we had planned a weekend over in Bath, as we had still  not really travelled anywhere outside of London together, but still in England. We were going to take our bikes along but the weather was pretty average so we decided against it. A very early bus ride to Paddington (it takes like an hour 15 from our house) and being 20 minutes early meant we had time to play with Sams wee purchase, his iPhone fisheye camera clip on thingi, so cool. Hilarious. I'm sure I've said it before on here, but I really like trains rides. We got there relatively early and ended up going straight to the town part and just walking over the whole place. It's pretty nice, we visited th...

Lunchtime stop! we camped right in front of that seat hahaha sammy on the bridge break time packed up soph on the way up the hill, finally some tarseal! how dusty you get sitting on a bike museum trip   time to finish off the wine and teach guy how to stretch helmet geezers art at bristol uni got sammy too guy looking stoaked and the boatses again OKOKOKOK right so. I'm aware I've skipped out the whole of my NZ trip, and I *eventually* will get round to that...I just wanna get these lil trips out while they're fresh in my mind...fresh-ish anyway. So a few weeks back at Easter, Sam, Guy, Soph and I decided we would do a wee bike mission form Reading to Bristol, along the Avon Canal. Sam and I as always left everything up the the last minute and got a bargain pair of pannier bags - £7.50 a set! Hardy as... and I didn't get back from Cornwall till late the night before, so packing was ...

crazy gorge drive down to castleton sammy wandering the streets of castleton Right! On a role! Bit shorter but thought I'd share, before I get into NZ holiday. Sam and I went up to Manchester, Sam had mentioned he would like to head up there and then there was the Rugby League World Cup thing happening which he also mentioned, so I thought I'd do a wee bit of surprising and get tickets hahaha. I'd never been to a rugby game before and what a game to pick. I felt sorry for them. Anyway, It was nice to get out of town for a bit, and especially nice to be around some greenery and rolling hills too. We drove up on the Friday night, halfway, then carried on through an amazing national park and through 'Hope Valley' in the morning, it was all foggy and cliffy and pretty pretty. We headed to the Old Trafford place and got our seats (in the skies hahaha) and watched NZ sadly take a massive dive. Ah well. The next day we drove home a...

chocomel to the rescue funniest thing, i just about died laughing two smoothies please, im feeling extra seedy at van gogh museum kate thoroughly enjoying my company george looking wistful...just found a place that does bloody mary fiiinally i can see your a first time flyer... sisssstaaaas are doin it Lets take a long step back in time... To celebrate my friend Georges birthday a few weeks ago, she arranged a wee trip to Amsterdam! George and I caught the Eurostar over, while her friend Nicola caught the train from France and our friend Kate flew over from London. From the get go we were disorganised as hell, with both me and George being late to the train (still made it obvs) and Georges phone going flat, but luckily we bumped into each other walking around St Pancras station haha. I love train rides, I dunno, I think it might be my favourite way to travel. Not the tube or anything, because screw that. But long train rides are ok by...

So long it's been! Just taking a lazy break in NZ....Be back soooooon with a bunch of old things to post!

sammy pointing to where we are headed  and finally at the top wouldnt be an alana trip without an awkward jumping photo a little bit dunediny pretty much all of costello So the rest of the time we were in Ireland we pretty much just drove around sight seeing. It was the best. Driving through valleys and the bumpiest roads ever, and glassy glassy lakes and even up a mountain. And as always by mountain, I mean steep hill. We stopped in at the Connemara National Park and decided to do the walk up the 'Diamond Hill'. There are three different heights you can go to so obviously we decided to get up to the top. And boy oh boy I tell ya, if you ever go there take some moz spray, as I have never been so eaten in my life. Hunnnnnnnnndreds of them. Stuck everywhere. I was super hot from walking up the hill  but I had to put my jacket on, it was just unbearable. Teeny wee things like a cloud you just couldn't not breathe them in h...