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Posted in April 26th, 2008
After Ireland, I travelled to London where I met my parents! (no, it wasn’t a coincidence). We tripped around during the day, seeing all the sights and sounds along the way (sounds a little bit like Dr Suess, doesn’t it?) Mum and I at the Tower Bridge
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Posted in April 21st, 2008
In Dublin, we visited the most Irish thing in Ireland… the Guiness Brewery!
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Posted in April 18th, 2008
Sean, Jez and I met up with Kelsi, Sam and Erica in Dublin, and we started off on our Topdeck tour of Ireland. It was a six day tour of southern Ireland. There were 16 of us on the tour – 15 of us were between the age of 18 and 21, so it was pretty much […]
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Posted in April 15th, 2008
IRELAND!!! For my easter holidays, I went to Ireland! I started off by flying to Dublin, where I met Sean and Jez. The plan was: few nights in Dublin, then hop on a paddywagon tour and trek around the country for a week! O’ potatoes! Potatoes!
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Posted in April 10th, 2008
On my exeat, I managed to score a ticket to the Six Nations Calcutta Cup match between England and Scotland for 10 pounds! So I walked to the stadium that arvo, not knowing who I was sitting next to, but still in a state of shock that I got a ticket to the biggest rugby match of the year, […]
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Posted in April 6th, 2008
This weekend, I truly lived the life of a gappy… 100% unplanned and completely spontaneous. It was our exeat this weekend. It’s a three day weekend when we get leave from school to go and have a holiday. So i went into edinburgh with no plans of what i would do. It turns out, a gappy i knew […]
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Posted in April 5th, 2008
We stayed at a boarding house in Oundle for two of the nights of our tour, and I was given both of these nights off. So I met the Oundle gappies and we had a great time. The first night we went out to a pub. Some senior students snuck out from their boarding house, and we […]
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Posted in April 2nd, 2008
The rugby union lads had their tounrament next – the legendary Oundle Sevens. Ardvreck has traditionally done very well and it seemed as if they’d be highly competitive again this year – except it was called off. The English weather was as its finest (sarcasm). However, another school close by said that they’d hold a […]
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Posted in March 29th, 2008
While we were in Oundle for the rugby tournament, we had a tour of the school. It’s amazing. It’s over 450 years old (so Captain Cook’s grandfather probably could’ve gone there)! The school is massive, and in the middle of the town. Every school building is old and glorious.
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Posted in March 26th, 2008
The 7-a-side, national U13 hockey tournament was held the next day. At the tournament were the best hockey teams in the UK. There were only two scottish teams there, and we were one of them. I was one of the umpires! I umpired hockey at the national level! The standard was pretty damn good. The boys did […]
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