Learn English with the world's leading online English school

Angela M wrote a blog post 3 days ago

Sandakan and a trip to Selingan Turtle Island

Our next adventure in Borneo was to fly to Sandakan. We spent an hour after our arrival bartering for a beautiful jade bracelet – I love to buy jewellery on my travels as I always think of my...

Angela M wrote a blog post 4 days ago

The largest flower in the world and a visit to hot springs

En route to our next stop we stopped at a small village called Ranau with breathtaking views of Mount Kinabalu and a row of interesting local market stalls. I’m always fascinated to see the a...

kesina left a comment Yesterday

it's amazing thing much! and huge!!!! i thought that it maybe toxicity??????

Angela M wrote a blog post 4 days ago

News of nine eleven 2001 and a jungle canopy walk

We’ve got a full day of activities ahead of us and we set off early with our guide. First we start off by trekking through the jungle in the National Park. We’ve been trekking for ...

kesina left a comment Yesterday

juggle trekking woW it's cool

Angela M wrote a blog post on 11 March 2010

Trekking on Mount Kinabalu and spending the night in a mountain lodge

The next exciting part of our itinerary was trekking through the jungle on Mount Kinabalu including staying overnight in a mountain lodge. Our jungle guide was very knowledgeable about flo...

Angela M wrote a blog post on 10 March 2010

I give a pottery demonstration and we visit a magnificent Chinese temple

Next we visited a pottery workshop. The potter gave us a display of his talents of ‘throwing a pot’ (= when you make a pot using a pottery wheel). I’d done some pottery at school,...

Angela M wrote a blog post on 07 March 2010

Our visit to a village on stilts and a beautiful Chinese temple

On our first day we set off early to visit Mengkabong an interesting village set above water on stilts (= wooden legs to keep the houses out of the water). I certainly didn’t feel safe traver...

Angela M wrote a blog post on 04 March 2010

Our first experiences and sights of Borneo

We arrived in amazing Borneo after a rather hair-raising (= terrifying) flight. We’d flown into Kuala Lumpur from London and had enjoyed shopping in the great airport there. However, on the s...

Angela M wrote a blog post on 20 February 2010

A visit to Rock and Padstow

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE ...

Angela M wrote a blog post on 18 February 2010

The Eden Project and Boscastle

Another brilliant, environmentally green project to visit in Cornwall is the Eden Project. This incredible project – looking rather ‘space age’ with its domes (called &lsq...

Angela M wrote a blog post on 07 February 2010

The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Cornwall in the south of the U.K. has some amazing countryside and coastline. If you are a lover of nature you could do no better than to visit the Lost Gardens of Heligan. Before you enter ...

Angela M wrote a blog post on 28 January 2010

Our journey and arrival in Cornwall

My friend was very excited about our trip back to Cornwall because we were going by helicopter – a form of transport she’d never experienced before. It wasn’t such a treat ...

PHANTOM2009 left a comment on 31 January 2010

AMAZING TRIP i never ride helicopter before ,,,,,,,,,are there any flights available ??iam so excited about travel on helicopter ,,, i can take panoram view from the sky ,,,,, wow it will be wonde...

Angela M wrote a blog post on 26 January 2010

A trip to Tresco

I had really been looking forward to visiting Tresco because I’d heard so much about its botanical gardens. The gardens were stunning as you can see. . The birds we...

Angela M wrote a blog post on 24 January 2010

A trip to St Agnes and Gugh Islands

The weather turned glorious for us. We set sail over blue seas for the tiny island of St Agnes. The sun was hot as we walked around the island, but we took our time and treated ourselves ...

Angela M wrote a blog post on 21 January 2010

Arrival at St Mary's

We boarded the ferry (named Scillonian III) and set off for St Mary’s. We were all hoping the weather would get better – it was windy and raining and not the holiday weather we had pray...

Angela M wrote a blog post on 20 January 2010

Fogged in!

We enjoyed our evening meal at a traditional English pub and checked into our Bed & Breakfast accommodation at the comfortable Leworthy Farm in Holsworthy. By then we were tired from our journey an...

Angela M wrote a blog post on 14 January 2010

A fleeting visit to Stonehenge

In 2007 I was very lucky to be invited by a friend to go on holiday. We were going to visit Devon, Cornwall and the Scilly Isles - a group of islands off the coast of Cornwall and referred to as &l...

Carmen left a comment on 15 January 2010

Angela M wrote a blog post on 12 September 2009

Meeting an Egyptian family and my night-time visit into the desert…

I returned to the hotel and got ready for my evening out. I felt rather uncomfortable at the prospect of going somewhere with someone I didn’t really know, particularly when no one kn...

Samantha Yuan left a comment on 09 January 2010

Admire your trip, hope i could meet a lot of lovely people when I am traveling!

I LOVE CATS left a comment on 13 September 2009

ok i think Egypt good country too

2 comments

Angela M wrote a blog post on 10 August 2009

Last day in Luxor

The next day I spent a relaxing time in the morning near the pool. After lunch I walked into town. There were some attractive houses which had been decorated by paintings on the outside: ...

Angela M left a comment on 02 September 2009

Hi white horse - I've travelled to many countries all over the world but it's true that Egypt is a beautiful and fascinating country. This was one of my favourite holidays ever!

Brave Horse left a comment on 15 August 2009

I am egyptian . I advice any one if he want to enjoy , relax or know any thing great ,he must visit egypt not only luxor but all over egypt . egypt is the greatest tourist country in all over the w...

Angela M wrote a blog post on 04 August 2009

Visiting Denderah temple

I had decided to have a relaxing time in Luxor and I spent a day being lazy with just a stroll into Luxor. There was one place, however, that I wanted to visit and that was Dendarah temple ...

Release Manager left a comment on 15 December 2009

the pics are ver y nice

Angela M wrote a blog post on 01 August 2009

A wonderful balloon trip, a quiz and a final party dinner…

This time the balloon trip was a success! It was a relaxing and blissful (= supremely happy) flight. The views were awesome. We flew over the Valley of the Kings. From our great vantage poi...

dagoflores left a comment on 03 December 2009

Quite interesting history, hope to see more like this.

Log in