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Yesterday (Sunday), me and the family decided ti was a good time to go visit Stonehenge.

The site is only 95 miles away from were we live (Cardiff), and with the imminent move to Manchester, it will be much harder to visit it later on.

The drive there was excellent, after we travel 60 miles on I4 we then got into these beautiful country roads on the outskirts of Bath, that revealed some of the most amazing houses I have ever seen .. old and with character.

After about 1:50 on the road, we arrived (the return trip was only 1:35, helps when you know the road and not looking at a map every 5 minutes ).. the road leading to the site has a rises then dips on the last 1/2 mile or so before the site, so when your on the rising side you get the fist glance of the site, on the next rise ahead .. which makes it look very dramatic .. hard to explain really, you have to see it with you own eyes.

The thing that amazed me is, Stonehenge is virtually in the middle of nowhere, there is a small village a few miles form it, but when you are on the site, everywhere you look, you see nothing but fields of pasture .. it’s quite nice actually, if you disregard the nearby road it really gives the sense of the whole region being undisturbed for millennia.

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I have just returned home from a day long trip to Dublin, Ireland.
I have an irrational fear of flying, so the sight of the Cardiff Airport on my way to Departures on Sunday was not a joyful one.

The flight was on a dual propeller small plane, it had the capacity for 40 people, but only about 20 were on the actual flight, as we took off I was actually amazed how smooth of a ride it was, I ended up spendign the 50 minute trip standing up on the back talkign to the flight attendant, I find that standing up makes me less aware of any bumps and chatting with somebody else put my mind at ease and away from my contant fear that the plane will crash, I don’t understand how Andy does it all the time.

After a very smooth flight, we arrived in Dublin.

I was happy the flight had been uneventful, little that I knew, my real problems were about to start..[...]

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I absolutely hate to fly

As I write this on my blackberry, I am on a train from Manchester to Cardiff …. And we are 15 minutes late

The reason for it is that the trains engine keeps failing … At almost every station it stops , the engine dies and the conductor has to start it again … So we are crawling our way to Cardiff were the train will make his last stop and be fixed I am sure

What makes it all ok is my paranoiac fear of flying … I tell myself .. Ok, so we 15 minutes late, i’ll just order a beer, sit back, relax and write a note for my blog… If I was on a plane that the engines kept shutting down, I doubt the stewardess would have time to bring me that beer before we became a hole in the ground.

Yesterday the SWMUG ((South Wales Mac User Group) got together at a place called McArthurGlenn Outlets .. we only meet there and then departed to a nearby pub.

Today i decided too goo back and check it out a little better .. it’s just like any outlet compound in the USA .. quite nice.. lots of different stores with Ok pricing.

I saw a Apron with Home Simpson on it which i was to grab on the way out, but forgot, I’ll goo back sometime this week and snag it.

A few pictures of it, it’s actually quite a big place,, the corridors on the pictures are actually two different sections, easy parking as well.

I then went to the food court .. were I ordered a hot-dog .. the clerk told me they didn’t had that kind, so i asked another, and he says they don’t have that sauce .. so i ask him if he’s got ANYTHING,, he replies … NO .. we closing the business … ok …

Got up early, about 5:30 .. I was too nervous to sleep .. I have a mortal fear of flying, so the idea of getting into 2 planes was just nerve wrecking.

MY mother came and sit with me at about 6:30 .. the cab was already scheduled for 7:45 .. we spoke for a while, all and all I will miss her allot.

Cab came at 7:45 .. we loaded up the bags .. my mother and sister started to cry .. I felt very bad, and gave sister a hug .. heck, life is too short to bring up resentments on times like these (I stopped speaking to her a few months back over a few incidents)
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Went downtown and got the Plane Tickets for the UK trip.

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Well, I have been scouring the UK (remotely) for the past few months for a suitable place to live in, it hasn’t been easy .. the good news is that I FINALLY got an apartment, so … so far:

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I have been searching for 6 months for a nice town to move to in the Uk .. I have narrowed it down to 2 choices.

Either the Cardiff/Swansea/Newport Area (Wales) or the stretch between Lincoln – Sheffield ..

If anybody knows any of these two and has an opinion, please let me know

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