Editor’s Note – In case you missed any of the posts about our recent trip to England, here’s an aggregated list of all the posts so you can check out what you didn’t have a chance to read. Enjoy!
Trip to England 2009 – Day One – The British Airways Face to Face Events – In case you’re new to the blog I thought I should give a brief explanation as to how we got to go on the trip. Basically we won a contest. British Airways held a contest called the Face of Opportunity – and it’s premise was the businesses are more successful if you conduct meetings and deals face to face instead of via the phone or e-mail. So, they launched a brilliant contest to help small business owners achieve their goals by facilitating those face to face meetings. Click to read more.
Trip to England 2009 – Day Two – London Arrival and More British Airways Face to Face Events – Every time I’ve landed in London, I’ve always had to get off the plane on the tarmac, pile into a bus and drive to the terminal, which was old, dingy and usually involved a lot of walking. It was never a pleasant experiece – especially after being on a plane for 8 hours. Click to read more.
Trip to England 2009 – Day Three – Being a Tourist for a Day in London – Due to the shortness of our trip to England – we were only going to have one full day in London and we wanted to make the most of it. As Dispatches from the North Columnist Lisa Coulson wrote about in the weeks up to our trip, she’d had a tempestuous relationship with London and wanted to get the grand tour from me – someone who had a passion for London despite it’s warts. Click to read more.
Trip to England 2009 – Day Four – Leaving London for Salisbury and Shaftesbury – Even though we’d had an exhausting day touring the sites in London the day before – I still woke up around 5am. I blame jet lag and excitement. We had another busy day planned and I couldn’t wait to get it started! Click to read more.
Trip to England – Day Five – The Heaven That is Shaftesbury, Updown Cottage, Weymouth – On Saturday I awoke in our warm, soft and comfortable bed in Updown Cottage. I woke up as the sun was coming up. I didn’t want to miss a beautiful Dorset sunrise as the Blackmore vale was filled with sunlight. That didn’t quite happen though, as it was raining and quite windy. But I still managed to take far too many pictures than were necessary of that early morning… Click to read more.
Trip to England 2009 – Day 6 – Final Bits of England and the Journey Home – This will be a rather short post and will be the hardest to write. I woke up again ridiculously early to photograph the morning in Shaftesbury. It was raining and blustery. One thing I was really looking forward to was picking up the Sunday papers and having a cup of tea on our last morning in Updown Cottage… Click to read more.
A Video Tour of Updown Cottage – The self catering cottage that we stayed in Shaftesbury, Dorset. Heaven on Earth. Can’t wait to go back.
Random Observations from our Trip to England – A collection of seemingly random thoughts about our trip and England in general.
Pictures from our Trip - Check out this post for all our trip related pictures.
A New Dream Achieved – Everyone I Know Must Read This Post – A special post dedicated to everyone who played a part in making the whole trip possible.
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Anglotopia was founded by Jonathan and Jackie Thomas for people who love Britain - whether it's British TV, Culture, History or Travel - we cover it all. Anglotopia was started to get us back to the UK for a trip and it did that in 2009. Now, the goal is for Anglotopia to make our dreams of traveling to the UK whenever we want a reality.