Manchester: Doing its own thing
Without trying to rub salt into the wound, Birmingham proved to be a large disappointment considering it’s status as the UK’s second largest city. While the…
Lewis, Birmingham
Couchsurfing, while gaining popularity and becoming more and more familiar over the last three or four years, is still in it’s infancy. On relative corporate scales,…
Birmingham: Fighting a losing battle
Ask a foreigner (of Britain) to list of some cities of England and the responses usually follow a pretty typical trend – London, Manchester and Liverpool.…
Anton, Mark, Lizzie, Rosey & Veronica, Cardiff
There’s a certain responsibility when Couchsurfing. It all derives from the primary function of Couchsurfing which, depending on who you ask, varies from person to person.…
Cardiff: Every bit British
Traveling through the United Kingdom presents a certain excitement that all the other countries can’t provide. It’s to do with the fact that, as an Australian…
Bristol: Give it time
The popular proverb tells us not to judge a book by it’s cover. It’s a proverb that I feel generally doesn’t make much sense. It tries…
Annemarie, London
The United Kingdom has never given me much of a great sense of fascination and it doesn’t sit very highly on any of my wishlists. Living…
London: “Greatness” personified?
What makes a ‘great’ city ‘great’? How do we define it’s greatness? The cities that are renowned worldwide, almost unanimously, for their seemingly undisputed greatness. But…
Lord’s: Built on history
I mentioned in a previous post that there aren’t too many things that I had actually planned on doing during this trip, preferring instead to take…
Couch to couch 