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.…
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 