Collectormania Milton Keynes
May 30, 2010
Friday 28th May
I started the drive down to Milton Keynes at about 5.40 and it took just under three hours to get to the MK Dons Stadium in Milton Keynes.
I will be staying at the Doubletree by Hilton which is actually built in to the football stadium. Check in was really smooth and they gave me a free chocolate chip cookie. The room was very nice, you could tell this is a new hotel as everything is still fresh and clean. My room even looks over the pitch. Read more
Peru and Easter Island Day Eighteen
May 16, 2010
After what seemed like a really long flight due to lack of sleep when in fact it was around seven hours I arrive back in Manchester airport at 7.30am. I pick up my rucksack at the carrousel and meet my parents at arrivals who give me a lift back home.
TOTAL TRAVELLING TIME FROM EASTER ISLAND TO MANCHESTER 38 HOURS 44 MINUTES (Without Sleep!) Read more
Peru and Easter Island Day Seventeen
May 15, 2010
Due to the large amount of people who have arrived and left their cases in the line area of the Copa Airwarys check in area (by removing all the barricades) and then walked off, they did not stay in the area. In any other airport in the world security would have removed these bags and destroyed them with the help of the bomb squad, I mean who leaves their bags unattended in an airport, that is one of those rules you just don’t break!!! Read more
Peru and Easter Island Day Sixteen
May 14, 2010
I get up the usual time and head for what will be my last breakfast on the Island at 8.30. Today I have fried eggs, sweet potato and bananas. I check what time I will be taken to the airport and pay my bill. Read more
Peru and Easter Island Day Fifteen
May 13, 2010
Got up and went for breakfast as usual at 8.30. Today I had ham and cheese with a mixture of fruit. I sat with Deb, Laurie and Cheryl and after breakfast said goodbye as they were leaving for the airport straight after for their flight to Santiago and then on to a tour of the vineyards. Read more
Peru and Easter Island Day Fourteen
May 12, 2010
I got up the usual time this morning and went for breakfast at 8.30, today I had ham, egg and cheese with some fruit.
After breakfast I walked into town to go to the bank and change some US dollars into Chilean pesos and then continued over to the moai’s along the coast here to take some more photographs of them. On the way back I bumped into Deb, Cheryl and Laurie who were on their way to the Island Museum. I continued back into town and to Oceanic car hire. Read more
Peru and Easter Island Day Thirteen
May 11, 2010
Woke up at 8.00 got ready and went for breakfast by 8.30. I had pancakes with pineapple and melon as well as bread and jam.
After breakfast I went for a walk around Hanga Roa and stopped off at the Post Office to get my passport stamped as they do not do this at the airport. Read more
Peru and Easter Island Day Twelve
May 10, 2010
My first morning on Easter Island and I am keen to explore, I head over for breakfast at 8.00 but it does not start until 8.30 so head back to my room to read my book until then. Read more
Peru and Easter Island Day Eleven
May 9, 2010
I wake up at about 8.30 and it is a bit of a struggle after getting in early this morning. I pack all my things and check out of the hotel. I wait in reception until 10.00 when my guide Grace comes to pick me up for my City tour of Santiago. Read more
Peru and Easter Island Day Ten
May 8, 2010
I get up at 7.00am and prepare for my pickup at 8.00am to take me to the airport, at 8.20 I begin to worry that they are not coming for me so I call the emergency line that is in my travel pack, it turns out that one of the guides called my hotel last night and left a message to say that they will not be coming to collect me until 8.45, I did not get that message. Read more