Friday, September 08, 2006
Pictures, pictures, pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Enjoy.
Thanks to Kate, my site has now been upated with a few pics from pretty much every city I visited over Summer (Click on the link below). Zurich isn't up, but will be shortly.
We will put Lake District and Dublin up as soon as we fill our memory card!
If you have time, check them all out, if not have a look at Pamplona (Running of the Bulls), Rome, Cinque Terre, Lagos and the Greek Islands. Some more pics from the last World Cup group game against Croatia have also been added.
Hope you enjoy, I sure did!!!!!!
http://s48.photobucket.com/albums/f205/tysoncollins/
We will put Lake District and Dublin up as soon as we fill our memory card!
If you have time, check them all out, if not have a look at Pamplona (Running of the Bulls), Rome, Cinque Terre, Lagos and the Greek Islands. Some more pics from the last World Cup group game against Croatia have also been added.
Hope you enjoy, I sure did!!!!!!
http://s48.photobucket.com/albums/f205/tysoncollins/
Tys in Dublin
Kate and I moved into our new place with Knighter last Friday. We are right near Putney Bridge, awesome location. We are on the top floor (3rd), has wooden floors, all modern furniture, and 2 bathrooms. The place is awesome, would even be acceptable if were living in it in Melbourne. We will put some pics up shortly. Anyway after moving all our stuff from place to place and up 3 flights of stairs we were pretty buggered, but had to go out for Bubba's birthday drinks. Kate and I only stayed for a couple cos we had an early morning approaching.
We were up at 3:20am on Saturday morning to get a cab to Stansted Airport. Met Matt, Zara and Neil and caught our 6:30am flight to Dublin. As soon as we got into the city we had breakfast and then dumped our bags at our hostel. We walked around the city for a bit, stopped at the famous Temple Bar for an early morning pint and then walked to the Guiness Brewery after that. We stayed there for a few hours, finishing with our complimentary pint of Guiness, which was pretty good actually, definitely tasting better every time I have one. At night we had a few pints watching the England Euro qualifier then had some dinner. After that we checked out about 6 pubs, drinking at least a pint in each, my favourite being this real traditional Irish pub, on the 2nd level had a live Irish band who were really good, felt like being on the lower deck of the Titanic! Loved it. The bottom level was more modern music but this place got messy after a while, with all the massive drunk Irishmen looking for trouble, they weren't as friendly as I expected. So we moved on, stepping over a poor guy who had been stabbed and beaten surrounded by ambulances and police cars. We called it a night around 12:30am, it was a long day!
The next day we spent walking around the city, checking out Trinity College, Dublin Castle, Grafton Street and a couple other sights. There wasn't a lot to see in Dublin, fairly small city basically all about drinking, so we did the only thing left to do, have a few more beers. Kate and I left at 7pm for the airport. The flight was delayed, then back in London it took over an hour to collect our baggage meaning we missed the last train to Liverpool St, so we had to get the bus which took 90 mins, by then the Tube had finished, so we had to get a cab, finally got home at 3am! We were exhausted, a big few days, and desperately in need of some sleep.
Got another big night tonight, Tommy Bayford is leaving for good so he's having a send off. After that I might stay off the beers for a few weeks, just having the occasional couple every now and then up until Grand Final week, which will be massive. Scott and Jade are coming over for 4 days so will have another excuse to drink. Kates been uploading some pics every day for me so shortly I'll send around the link so you can check out some of my Summer!
We were up at 3:20am on Saturday morning to get a cab to Stansted Airport. Met Matt, Zara and Neil and caught our 6:30am flight to Dublin. As soon as we got into the city we had breakfast and then dumped our bags at our hostel. We walked around the city for a bit, stopped at the famous Temple Bar for an early morning pint and then walked to the Guiness Brewery after that. We stayed there for a few hours, finishing with our complimentary pint of Guiness, which was pretty good actually, definitely tasting better every time I have one. At night we had a few pints watching the England Euro qualifier then had some dinner. After that we checked out about 6 pubs, drinking at least a pint in each, my favourite being this real traditional Irish pub, on the 2nd level had a live Irish band who were really good, felt like being on the lower deck of the Titanic! Loved it. The bottom level was more modern music but this place got messy after a while, with all the massive drunk Irishmen looking for trouble, they weren't as friendly as I expected. So we moved on, stepping over a poor guy who had been stabbed and beaten surrounded by ambulances and police cars. We called it a night around 12:30am, it was a long day!
The next day we spent walking around the city, checking out Trinity College, Dublin Castle, Grafton Street and a couple other sights. There wasn't a lot to see in Dublin, fairly small city basically all about drinking, so we did the only thing left to do, have a few more beers. Kate and I left at 7pm for the airport. The flight was delayed, then back in London it took over an hour to collect our baggage meaning we missed the last train to Liverpool St, so we had to get the bus which took 90 mins, by then the Tube had finished, so we had to get a cab, finally got home at 3am! We were exhausted, a big few days, and desperately in need of some sleep.
Got another big night tonight, Tommy Bayford is leaving for good so he's having a send off. After that I might stay off the beers for a few weeks, just having the occasional couple every now and then up until Grand Final week, which will be massive. Scott and Jade are coming over for 4 days so will have another excuse to drink. Kates been uploading some pics every day for me so shortly I'll send around the link so you can check out some of my Summer!
"Now.... I'm not calling Kate a liar" says Tys
Tyson's rebuttal on Kate's email in last post:
Yeah we had a fantastic weekend, loved it up there, such a stress free environment, my biggest worry over the 3 days was whether to get chocolate syrup on my ice cream or not. It was such a great birthday present so I'll have to out do it when Kates birthday comes around.
Now.... I'm not calling Kate a liar, everything she said below did happen, but it was told way out of context. We all know Kate's not one to let truth get in the way of a good story, so this is what really happened: I went to the toilet, once in there I realised it was out of order but thought, stuff it, when nature calls it calls. Once finished, I opened the door to see an employee waiting for me. I found my seat with view of the toilet and watched the employee proceed to lock the toilet and put big yellow tape across the door. The announcement came soon after saying that toilets in carriage A, B, C, D were all out of order and that the only working lavatory was in first class. The conductor then said that they apologised for the foul smell coming from carriage D, not A, and that there were spare seats in carriage A, our carriage, if people wished to move. If the conductor had of been sitting in my position (next to Ms Mouncey) he most likely would have recommended another carriage to escape the foul odours! It was hilarious though, and I was reminded of it for the entire weekend!
We also did cheat death being 20m in front of where the car hit the stone wall, luckily I pulled Kate up that hill otherwise we could have been in a bit of strife. Like I said, it was an amazing weekend, had a great time and can't wait to get some pics up.
Kate showed me the location of our new flat last Friday night, I stood on our doorstep and within 30 metres there are 3 pubs, within 50 metres is the Thames River, and 1 min walk is the tube station so the place is in a brilliant location. Can't wait to move in.
Speak to you all again after Kate and I return from Dublin next week, hopefully my email will be more informative rather than a rebuttle, but somehow I doubt it! Take care.
Footnote from Brenton:
Kate is a more reputable source. And don't forget I've lived in the room next to you........you're disgusting.
Yeah we had a fantastic weekend, loved it up there, such a stress free environment, my biggest worry over the 3 days was whether to get chocolate syrup on my ice cream or not. It was such a great birthday present so I'll have to out do it when Kates birthday comes around.
Now.... I'm not calling Kate a liar, everything she said below did happen, but it was told way out of context. We all know Kate's not one to let truth get in the way of a good story, so this is what really happened: I went to the toilet, once in there I realised it was out of order but thought, stuff it, when nature calls it calls. Once finished, I opened the door to see an employee waiting for me. I found my seat with view of the toilet and watched the employee proceed to lock the toilet and put big yellow tape across the door. The announcement came soon after saying that toilets in carriage A, B, C, D were all out of order and that the only working lavatory was in first class. The conductor then said that they apologised for the foul smell coming from carriage D, not A, and that there were spare seats in carriage A, our carriage, if people wished to move. If the conductor had of been sitting in my position (next to Ms Mouncey) he most likely would have recommended another carriage to escape the foul odours! It was hilarious though, and I was reminded of it for the entire weekend!
We also did cheat death being 20m in front of where the car hit the stone wall, luckily I pulled Kate up that hill otherwise we could have been in a bit of strife. Like I said, it was an amazing weekend, had a great time and can't wait to get some pics up.
Kate showed me the location of our new flat last Friday night, I stood on our doorstep and within 30 metres there are 3 pubs, within 50 metres is the Thames River, and 1 min walk is the tube station so the place is in a brilliant location. Can't wait to move in.
Speak to you all again after Kate and I return from Dublin next week, hopefully my email will be more informative rather than a rebuttle, but somehow I doubt it! Take care.
Footnote from Brenton:
Kate is a more reputable source. And don't forget I've lived in the room next to you........you're disgusting.
Tyson evacuated a whole carriage!!!!!!!
This post came from Kate:
Thought I would send a quick email on our latest weekend away. We had a bank holiday so decided to go to a b&b in the lake district which is a couple of hours train ride north of London. It is basically country setting around a series of about 16 lakes, the biggest being lake Windermere which we were staying by. Very scenic and very English. Most people go for the quaint English country side, and many walking trails.
Having heard great things from Craig and Jane, and anyone else who had been there, we were very excited to say the least.
Started very early on Saturday morning on the overland train. About an hour into the trip Tyson decided he needed to go to the toilet. On finishing his business, a guard was outside with a disgusted looking face, locked the door and put yellow tape over it to stop anyone going in. Then comes the voice-over " we apologise for the foul smell coming from the toilet in Carriage B – We have locked this toilet for use, please feel free to move to another carriage". I kid you not – this is actually what happened – Tyson evacuated a whole carriage!!!!!!! I couldn't stop laughing the whole way.
On arrival, we walked into the next town, then onto Grasmere, the next village about 1.5 hours away. Bought some famous home baked Gingerbread – best I have ever had – then headed back to Ambleside where we were staying for dinner at a lakeside pub.
Sunday we decided to walk to Haverthwaite – about 6 hours away. Great views, many sheep and winding roads, it was really relaxing and not too hard (although Tys had to pull me up the steeper bits). As we were high up, could see all the way across the lake and surrounding hills. There were quite a few close shaves as no foot path in some spots, and had to share the road with cars. At one point a couple walking behind us had stopped to hug the side of the road as a congestion of cars passed, then all of a sudden we heard this screeching. The driver ahead wasn't paying attention – we think he had been staring at Tyson's extremely white brand spanking runners, as had most people who passed us – and ploughed straight into the wall about a metre in front of them. Pretty scary. Finally arrived, a bit wet and tired legs, but well worth it. After finding only 3 buses ran on Sunday's, finally caught a steam train and ferry back to Ambleside.
Went on our final trail on Monday before we left – up an old track and through a farm with views out all over the lake – it was spectacular.
Thought I would send a quick email on our latest weekend away. We had a bank holiday so decided to go to a b&b in the lake district which is a couple of hours train ride north of London. It is basically country setting around a series of about 16 lakes, the biggest being lake Windermere which we were staying by. Very scenic and very English. Most people go for the quaint English country side, and many walking trails.
Having heard great things from Craig and Jane, and anyone else who had been there, we were very excited to say the least.
Started very early on Saturday morning on the overland train. About an hour into the trip Tyson decided he needed to go to the toilet. On finishing his business, a guard was outside with a disgusted looking face, locked the door and put yellow tape over it to stop anyone going in. Then comes the voice-over " we apologise for the foul smell coming from the toilet in Carriage B – We have locked this toilet for use, please feel free to move to another carriage". I kid you not – this is actually what happened – Tyson evacuated a whole carriage!!!!!!! I couldn't stop laughing the whole way.
On arrival, we walked into the next town, then onto Grasmere, the next village about 1.5 hours away. Bought some famous home baked Gingerbread – best I have ever had – then headed back to Ambleside where we were staying for dinner at a lakeside pub.
Sunday we decided to walk to Haverthwaite – about 6 hours away. Great views, many sheep and winding roads, it was really relaxing and not too hard (although Tys had to pull me up the steeper bits). As we were high up, could see all the way across the lake and surrounding hills. There were quite a few close shaves as no foot path in some spots, and had to share the road with cars. At one point a couple walking behind us had stopped to hug the side of the road as a congestion of cars passed, then all of a sudden we heard this screeching. The driver ahead wasn't paying attention – we think he had been staring at Tyson's extremely white brand spanking runners, as had most people who passed us – and ploughed straight into the wall about a metre in front of them. Pretty scary. Finally arrived, a bit wet and tired legs, but well worth it. After finding only 3 buses ran on Sunday's, finally caught a steam train and ferry back to Ambleside.
Went on our final trail on Monday before we left – up an old track and through a farm with views out all over the lake – it was spectacular.
