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Time away for friends, family and the occasional excursion.

8 entries, oldest first

Mar 2017

Portugal

Portugal

I’m hungover. Portugal’s off to a good start. Let me explain. I’ve come straight from a stag do. My first ever stag-do. It was good: zorb-football, paintballing, drinking, dancing…… sleeping. Not so…

Mar 2025 ·Enroute for work | flying lesson

Cotswolds, UK

Cotswolds, UK

The first time was on my 125cc orange Honda motorbike during some very cold, and dark, weather. The second time was by car with much nicer, calmer, weather to boot. It’s true, the landscapes really…

Apr 2025 ·Surprise friends and go to wine festival, Vinitaly

Verona, Italy

Verona, Italy

Even just looking back at photos it fills me with such good memories, and emotions. We went there on a spur of a moment idea after some friends said they were going and that’d it’d be great if we…

Apr 2025 ·Getting a flight

Milan, Italy

Milan, Italy

We just came from Verona where we got to go to a vine festival (Verona) with our friends Jonathan and Bianca. It wasn’t planned, but hey, here we are. We flew into Verona but flew out of Milan to…

Apr 2025 ·Dual – university demo and short holidays

Valencia, Spain

Valencia, Spain

A nice, easy, process of going to an EU country. We booked an AirBnB last minute which was fairly cheap, good quality, and right opposite the market hall which was perfect for our purposes. It’s easy…

Apr 2025 ·Visiting friend Jonathan Lecca who lives closeby in Guildford but is originally from Sardinia

Sardinia, Italy

Sardinia, Italy

Nice and easy with Ryanair flights often going back and forth. The first good sign was being able to get a quality cup of coffee on the plane. I’ve never seen a cup that allows you to drink filtered…

Aug 2025 ·ADEE (Work event)

Dublin, Ireland

Dublin, Ireland

Arrival We arrived by van with some equipment for a work event. It was a nice crossing from France and we slept well in the cabins. My partner’s family (mum’s side) is Irish so we’d looked forward to…

Feb 2026

Fougeres

Fougères, France

This is one of those, very rare, personal trips that is more for having a nice excursion than anything else but, ofcourse, we found time to stop by Laval (the HRV office) to say hello to everyone.…

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