Update

Hi Everyone i just wanted to quickly say that i am in Greece now! for 5 months! i am currently writing a big blog and i will post it soon.
bye xxx

France

France... well its been eventful! I want to say a quick sorry to everyone that I haven't been around that much I really haven't had internet and its just been busy! We got up early in England and then we got to the ferry in the afternoon and we spent the rest of the time driving up there.
The ferry was nice and the only slightly disconcerting thing was that when waiting to get on the ferry one of the internal alarms went off. We sorted it and it hasn't gone off since so we haven't looked into it much.
In France they have these things called Aires where you can stay for free and some of them have hook up and water. They are basically service stations. Well the actually are service stations with really big car parks. It was really windy the first night and we didn't have hook up there which sucked big time caus I left my lantern on so I didn't have it the next night where we didn't have hook up either.
Rhys was really annoying because he kept on saying “oh French food is the best in the world” and “oh we have to eat in the air because French food is so great”. Which is like saying “oh we have to eat in the little chef because English food is the best in the world” you know. You are never going to get the best food in the world if you eat in the service station. And I don't mean to offend anyone but the food in the Aires was so bad! I really didn't like it at all.
At most of the Aires we had no problems at all and there were always nice truckers and everything. But when we were in Marseille we had had quite a bad day and when we woke up we discovered that we had been robed! So I wouldn't personally recommend that Air at all! But we did pick up some really nice hitch-hikers there so hi if your reading this!
After a lot of sorting out what we had lost and stuff we moved on to the camp-site ewe are now in. this camp-site is really great it Is called La Vielle Ferme and it is in Antibes so i'm really sorry I lied to you George I got confused!
Its nice here but we haven't really done a lot because mum and dad have been working but we are trying to watch all the Harry Potter films before we see the next one because it doesn't come out here for another couple of days :(
I hope you have all seen the new pages. If not you must have a look at them they are on the page bar which is just bellow the picture on the home page. Listen I am going to upload this now so I will write again soon next time I have internet (probably).
Talk to you soon
Rowan
x

The Lake District

Hi Everyone! i am currently in the lake district! it is raining at the mo but most of the time the weather has been pretty good. it being October it means that everyone's birthday has either been or is coming up (like mine!)we have just had my mums birthday actually and in some far of part of the country my big grown up cousin Sean has also just turned 18! so congratualtions!
I went for a walk yesterday. The walk yesterday was good. we did get a bit lost at the end but lucky dad (being dad) had a GPS app on his spunky new Man-Droid, sorry i mean Android! he also has a spirit level, a torch, space invaders and wait for it... a PIANO! i mean who wouldn't be complete with out there mini touch screen piano? we walked all along the side of the hill. we could see the lake and it was actually really beautiful. we got to this waterfall and there was a tea rooms so we all scraped together our change and rounded up £15 just enough for 2 cakes a pot of tea for 2, 2 lattes and a bag of crisps. we then ended up getting lost (somehow) and Henrietta (the GPS laddie on the man-droid) became our new best friend! she did get us back though, so...
the road back wasn't very interesting but we did go past an adder reserve which was quite cool.
before the walk it was mums birthday! she got a tonne of stuff perfume, books, personal GPS, a Nicon camara with a nice bag and some nice cards to! i am now exited for my birthday. i am asking for money so that i get some sims2 packs!
ok just a quick update but if you haven't checked out my new about me section you have got to do it! Bye XX

sorry i haven't posted pics for ages i haven't been able to get it to work! sorry!

Scotland!

Hello everyone I am incredibly sorry about my bad bloging and I cant believe how long it has been since I last bloged! I have not had very good internet and every time I try to upload pics I end up crashing my browser! I also need to check what I have put up because I have lots of pics now and I am not even sure if I bloged about the places! So I am very sorry. I am now in England on my way to Hadrian's wall! It is quite hard to type when the keyboard is bouncing around in frond of me! Yesterday I went to Lindersfarn/Holy Island. I was a great and we went at the time when everyone else left, you see for those who don't know were or what Lindersfarn is Lindersfarn is an island and at certain times of day or night eg. Four in the afternoon and so on you can cross to the island on a causeway/road that is otherwise covered with water. So we arrived at our strange camp-site (Bluebell Farm, Belford) were white rabbits run free along with Chinese duck and baby swans! It was almost exactly one of the afternoon low tide times (around 4 ish) so we immediately hoped back in the car and drove of to the causeway. We arrived and managed to cram Huwie (our little car) in to the car park. The place looked nice. We walked through the small village with Rhys telling us about how when the island originally was home to a few monastery's it had been the first place that the Vikings had invaded! He then went on to pretend to be a Viking waving his fists and storming through the 'very busy' streets and scaring one woman on her peaceful walk on the castle hills shouting and brandishing his pick axes'. We then walked around the small island and down the bit of the cause way we could before getting tea and waiting until 10 when we could go back to the mainland. I realised when we were on the island that we always seem to arrive places when they are covered in scaffolding! For instance
The Forbidden City
Roslin Chapel
The Pathanon
Lindersfarn Priory
The abby in Ireland
and probably a few more.
It was nice to be home in Cermit because he had been in the garage getting his bowels checked. In our family we have had to send our cars to the garage quite a lot huwie has been to the garage a lot for his tail (exhaust) and he already has hair extensions (roof bars) and his braces (A frame towing system) he is a cool car. But with Cermit being in the garage it meant that we had no where to sleep so we got to have a mini holiday in Edinburgh! We did a lot of shopping because there are two very important B-days coming up: mine and mummys! Edinburgh was a bit like London but a bit cooler. I really liked it and I got to have a bath!
I really enjoyed Scotland and there is so much other stuff that I haven't bloged about yet so I am afraid this is going to be a long one!

Before we stayed In Edinburgh we went to this really nice camp-site in the highlands and we did so much there. We did this one long cycle were me, dad, Rhys and Jenna went out first to this place called tree zone were we were on a harness and there was an assault course through the trees! It was really fun and sometimes scary! I will link to our vids of it at the end of the blog. We then went on to cycle the nearest loch we cycled all around the top of it until we got to the first turning of with we thought was the one that lead straight back to our camp-site. It wasn't. We got lost and ended up cycling through a deer farm in the rutting season. Classical. The best bit was went we go to the fence out of the farm and Rhys burst into tears saying “are we gona die!!!!” it was very funky! We then got lost again down the road but we found the right path eventually and soon we came back to the and I quote “the boring old mill” that Is what the sign said! lol.

The other classical thing was when Rhys and Dad went for an overnight hike up the mountain and there was gale force winds and no visibility but they found us ...eventually. My favorite place was the reindeer farm! It was pretty self explanatory we walked up to the farm bit and we got to feed some of them. We also learnt about the reindeer. They have antlers that fall of and are furry when they are growing. I got to feed this big one called Magnus. I really liked Scotland.
We also, and this was a very long time ago climbed Ben Nevis. It was good fun but I didn't go to the top because mum got really freaked and I took her back down. I sill got a certificate though! So I think that's almost everything but if I have forgotten anything I will blog again at some point. Don't wait up! Bye!

From Scotland...

So how is everyone, as you all know I am a full time traveller! So far I have been to Ireland. I now some of you must now be thinking “she's all ready said all of this!” but I am going to go on now just giving a background. I am now in Scotland . Mum and dad are working again now but they don't have very long to do it so they will be done soon. This does mean we have to entertain our selves for a bit though so I am in the lounge watching Phineas & Ferb whiles working. The thing I hadn't realized before was that one of my favourite bands (Bowling For soup) now I am sooooo sorry that I haven't been very active recently I have not had very much internet see but I am updating everything now. When I upload this I will be in the pub, we have been to the pub a few times (last time I caught up with Waterloo road! Sooo good) now I know that I have posted about a few thing but I haven't yet posted about Scotland but I also want to tell you is about the distillery me mum and Jenna went to. It was the old Bushmills distillery and we got to go around it and we learned how whisky is made. Jenna's favourite bit was the bottling section (but she did come out of place banging into walls of the fumes!). I liked the big copper tinny thing they used to mix it all up in at the beginning .I also forgot to tell you about the giants causeway. It was really nice there we walked across the top of the hill and we got to see all of the “things” at the site now I am really thinking I just remembered that we went on a walk my Rhys and mum all through the hills one day it was 11 miles and dad and Jen went on a seal boat. that was nice to after that we did a pub crawl waiting for them I had 5 cokes. After that we left Ireland :(. bit we got on the ferry for Scotland :) it wasn't too bad but it could have been better. I watched Gavin and Stacey and did a bit of homework. I have had a lot of homework of late almost more than I used to have at normal school! And I thought it was going to be easier!
I now have a youtube channel and hopefully (finger crossed) will have so videos up soon! We haven't really done much in Scotland yet we went out to go either pedalowing or to an aquarium but in the end we didn't do either but we did get cake and fizzy drinks and we fed the ducks there so it was worth the drive in the end! I will upload a lode of pics now so talk to you soon bye xx

Ireland- So Far...

Well so far... I have been to a safari park, kissed the Blarney stone, seen Waterford Crystal, camped with the Davies', cycled the camp site 20 times, been to Ikea, got a basket ball, got Sims 2 free time, saw National Treasure 2, read Breaking Dawn, settled in to my room, put all my possessions on a ferry, crossed to Ireland and I am now sitting in the van writing a this!

Because I have done quite a lot of things so far I will only tell you the good stuff like Carew Castle and Blarney. So after leaving Llandovery in our 30f RV we stopped over in Pembrokeshire with the Davies' which was v. fun (that was when I did 20 laps of the camp site). We went to Carew Castle and water mill, the site of which has been used for many generations going back to the Celts it was really nice there I learned lodes and I got an A on my essay on it.. We also went to Boshinton and Broadhaven Beach. Boshinton is this walk where there is a river next to it and it has all these lilly pads on it. We actually went there twice once with our cousins who came down one day which was lovely and then again with the Davies' witch was also great. After multiple sleepovers the Davies left and the weather left with them so, we deicide to splash out and go to blue lagoon for the afternoon. Blue Lagoon was fun but busy it being a massive indoor pool with slides on a rainy day.

After we left Wales we went to Tramor. Tramor was nice. We went to the beach and Tescos (a lot).Tescos is a fun place they sell everything you could ever want and you can go on to self service it it was fun. There isn't much else to say about Tramor we didn't really do much there so It was kinda boring, but 5 thumbs up to the Tescos, it was sooooo big and I showed mum how to use the self service. She was awesome at the scanning. We then moved on to Blarney. Now Blarney was more like it.

On the first day we went up to Blarney castle and me, Rhys and dad kissed the Blarney stone (yes I have the gift of the gab and yes Ed I kissed it for you so you to have the gift of the gab too). We also went round the grounds and we saw all of the witches stones and druids cauldrons and all that rubbish but it was good we found this tyre swing and I went green dad was spinning us soooooooooooooooooo much! We went back again on one of the last days where I did a sketch of the manor house I will try to scan it and post it up for you but I might not be able to straight away.

So far Ireland is so much fun. I will blog again soon, bye!

P.S did you know that the difference between glass and crystal is that crystal is 33% lead!

Ireland- So Far... Pictures

Creation Fest.

it was the 7th of August 2010 the day we had all been waiting for, well Llandovery YMCA and a couple of other Christians all over the countries had been waiting for and intact a few really hardcore committed Christians from America had been waiting for and a few really OTT hardcore committed Christians from New Zealand and other far of countries had been waiting for. It was the first day of the long awaited Creation Fest.
Now you may be wondering why I was going to a Christian festival (for those who don't know I am not a religious person) we I was going with my youth club along we the 32 others who had paid the 70 squids to see bands like Malokai, BOSH, theabandwithnoname, The Scott Cunningham Band and wait for it headlining the kids tent for 3 to 11 year olds: the bear hug band (bringing a goofy upbeat and fulfilled flavour to the kids tent once again. Coming out of Costa Mesa California, the whole crazy crew is back to dance, shout and groove in the freedom they have in Christ.)
so we all got up excited and happy (well as happy as you can be at seven hundred hours in the morning) and not really knowing what we had signed up for buckled our seat belts and waited while our group leader Jill stalled the bus a couple of times.
It was all good for about an hour. We were listening to n-dubs and we were dancing and listening to the “Cornwall mix tape” with everyone shouting: “we need more hardcore mayday mayday ravers in the UK!” but then the table were turned as someone cried the fatal sentence of... “are we there yet” hey and 8 hours later and a KFC or two we were.
So when we were finally there I, Jessica and holly being really cleaver brought a pop up tent. So once we had pegged up or in or whatever we were offered spag bol, witch at the time I wasn't very hungry for so instead I just had spaghetti and cheese. Witch was nice until it went cold and then it became a bit... weird.
After finished my cold spaghetti and cheese I decided to get my moneys worth and go down to the festival. So I said to my friends “who's gonna go down festival” and who answers, no one. We had paid 70 pounds for everyone to say no I'm not gonna bother tonight. Well I did bother and finally managed to round up a few people who cared were there cash went. So I would just like to say a quick shout out to Matt. D and Ross. C (you know who you are) because you came up to the festival with me on the first night and we did have a good time zorbing/walking on water*, didn't we?
*now for those who don't know what zorbing is shame on you. No don't worry zobing is where you basically hop in to a plastic ball and either run down a hill or as we did walk/fall around in what you could basically call a giant paddling pool.
So after zorbing we didn't do much else we saw a few bands and went to bed. So when we woke up it was Sunday and it was 7 in the morning. That day had nothing very interesting planed so we stayed at the festival. I decided I would like to go and “meet the band: Malokai” it turned out Malokai were quite good. They were a alternative/punk/rock/Christian band who thought that screamo was limiting there audience. I then stayed in the “ZONE” for the rest of the day. I also met the band [crave]: who turn out to be quite good to.
The next day we went to Padstow, or was that the day before maby I've got my days wrong. But it was awesome there I thoroughly recommend it. There was even a guy playing the saw. It was really nice there and I had rhubarb crumble ice cream! Then we were called for lunch and half of us now being able to eat with everyone else we had to get down to this little island. It looked like the only way down was a rickety ladder, but we found another way... through the quick sand. That was fun. We then went on a boat trip. I don't know what it is but being on boats makes me really sleepy. And then at the beach I cut my toe. That night was one of the best nights musically with dweeb, theabandwithnoname and Philliper Hanna! “all right everything gonna be all right”. Me, Phoebe, Susan, Chris, Matt, Dana and anyone I have forgotten had the best time dancing.
The next day we were split into two groups and we went down to Gweek and went surfing! Mathew was so the best surfer it was really funny. We had an awesome time we surfed for a while and then we played a few cool games. And one of the girls she got stung by a spiky fish. I then brought a packet of haribo kiddie mix.
I started to see less music now but I did start going to the films, we saw this really good one about this dude called Joey Burran who is like this surfer coincidently. I also saw this one about a kid with sickle cell and half of one about a cricketer called Hansi. They were all pretty good but they were all pretty late so I was shattered.
The next day we all went horse riding and i discovered I am actually quite scared of horses especially when they are stood still and you are on top of them. But once we had started walking it was ok and kinda fun. Ashley fell of his horse it was well good.
Jess and Holly left then and we went zorbing again together it was really nice. After that I spent another day at the festival with Phoebe witch was also nice. Then we had the bus journey home. 8 hours of journey. but when we got back it had been a good week.

My Cool Tee-Shirt

i have a cool new rowantravel tee-shirt check it out:

Some Sardinia Pics

The Other Bit Of The Sardinia Blog

So after settling in making new friends and going to the pool we decided it was time to do a bit of exploring! We all hoped in the car and drove to the capital Cagliari. We stopped when it got to hot (no air con see!) and we had a drink at a café. We carried on driving and we began to pass some big lakes full of white flamingoes! Dad then commented that flaming joes! We arrived soon and we tried to park. It was all so full up and it took us ages to actually stop! When we did we charged over to the nearest café. It was really nice and it was shady. We all needed the loo to but me and Rhys couldn't quite get the hang of the doors and we both nearly got stuck! We ate some lush food and decided that our café was the best in the square. One thing we noticed was that the trees were all bundled up it was really funny cause all the leaves were collecting in the bottom. After we used the international sign language for can I have the bill please we went to walk around the historical center. We climbed right to the top of this hill thing and we all spotted our car. We walked around and looked at all the old houses. We went inside this strange cold empty museum but only really to use the loo and I discovered I had burnt my left shoulder! We were soon all to hot and we drove down to this ancient civilization village. It was discovered when there was a storm and like half a child's graveyard was discovered and now there is this massive city! It was very cool and I really enjoyed. We spent the rest of the holiday relaxing but it was all good. One day we walked 1 and a half miles to this restaurant. We walked all the way down the beach and on the way back we could see all the stars. Me and dad saw a shooting star and it was sooooooooooooooo cool! On are last day we walked down again with Gabe, Dasiey, Heather and Mathew and it was really nice. Overall Sardinia was awesome and I really enjoyed1

Sardinia Begining to End (except we have a break in the middle.)

as you may have guessed from the title I am having a half term holiday in Sardinia! So far me and my family have lazed around, lazed around, and oh lazed around. Although we have played a lot of badminton (the one sport I am actually good at!), been for a walk and swum in the swimming pool too! Unfortunaly holidays do require a bit of work. For exsample we had two and a half solid days of driving, an uncoftable night in the car and a overnight boat where the driver was blotto!

We started of in 20 queen st with a loud bleep! Bleep! BLEEP! At 6 o'clock wich “aparently” screwed up Dad's "sleep cycle". We packed the car and finaly after much hoo haa we were of! At this point it was 8.30 but I soon fell asleep. I find sleeping is a very good way of pasing the time. When I awoke we were in england, we stoped for a big english service station breakfast. After this we soon reached the euro tunnel. We got there an hour early so after making sure our car was "accepable" for the French guidelines and prepering the new (well new to us) kia sadona for it first trip out side of the uk we got put on an early train.

After 35 minuits we were in France! Witch if you think about it is prety cool. I think I fell asleep then, again. Anyway if I din'nt it was'nt very interesting. Later on we were all getting tiered but at about 11.30 after no sign of any hotels we pulled over to a service station and selpt in the car. That was not as bad as it sounds but I wouldent recommend it to everyone.

There was an up side to sleeping in the car, wich was that we were right next to the gas station. We soon set of having no reson to stay there any longer. We drove on and I fell asleep after watching school of rock. I woke up in switzerland (I love it when that happens) and we stopped for my first ice cream! We did'nt stop for long so I watched school of rock, again and we soon hit... the tunnles!

We drove through soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many tunnles including the mont Blonc tunnle! We then drove and I fell asleep (it turns out I did'nt stop sleeping when I was a baby either) and at 5.00 pm we arived at the ferry port. This was all good exsept the one tiny little problem. Our ferry did'nt avive till 11.30! we spent 6 and a half hours
wating in the crappy little port aka liborno. When finaly we were called in to the wating line dad and Rhys when in the toilet! So I then ran around trying to find them, when actually we then did'nt leave the line for about an hour so it did'nt mater that much anyway.

When we got on the boat I discovered that our captin was either a todler or totally pissed! We rocked this way and we rocked that way, all whille I was trying to sleep. I did'nt enjoy this very much at all. After being dosed up with sea legs I soon fell asleep and I woke up in the mornig ready to start our holiday.

We drove some more but we took it slow and kept stoping when it got to hot and on one of our stops we met a man who had practicaly traveled the world on his motor bike. He was pretty cool. At about 2 pm we arived at 4mori our camp site and we were all ready for lunch to discover... they dont do lunch so instead we unpacked our stuff and settled in to our super tent.(it really was super!)

it had three rooms a gas stove and outside tabble and a dividey bit in bettween mine and Jenna's bed! It was ausome. We were soon unpacked at the place was all ready a pit so we dicided to go for a walk to the beach. The beach was a 2 second walk through the camp site and down a bord walk. We walked down the long beach to the beach bar (wich we discovered did food, but by now we were not hungry). We spent a while at the beach and then dicided to go out to the campsite restaurant. Big mistake. The food was great, no problems there. Unffortunatly (for the waitor) mum and dad insisted that the service was so bad they had to see the manager and a good half an hour later they arived back at the tent informing us that they had to go to reception in the morning to make an oficial complatint! Oh to the lengths parents go!

The next day we totally relaxed and spent the whole day either at the beach or the pool. We soon discovered the family in the tent next door to us where english! The children where a bit younger than us but they were really cool. Heather and Mathew had to kids Dasiy (age 5 nearly 6) and Gabe (4 but such a leg(end, thats brakets inside of brackets) and a total admirer). We then went to the swimming pool with them almost everyday. One memorable day Gabe asked Rhys to jump in. Rhys being Rhys did a massive canon ball. Again, again, again! So Rhys jumped in again. Again, again, again. Rhys ended up (with much prompting from mum) diving in swimming a length and back then repeating this over and over again.

This is the end of the first half of my holiday to Sardinia so catch up with me later to find out what happens when we go to the capital, Cagliria.

I am going to put some pic's up soon but we are at a hotel in Parma Italy and the camera cord is at the bottom of dad's case!

exciting prospects!

helo wats ocurin? it is so good to know that the house is sold! and that the plan is acctualy going ahead! i am looking forwards to going and travaling again. i am also looking forwards to leaving school as much as i will miss all my friends i will not miss boring old maths lessons with miss spackman ,long dreary sports setions and the discusting lunches!

but our first adventure is going ot be sardinia in the half term before we go of in the bus! we will me driving to the island (are you confused?) in our curant car (a kia sadona 7 seats) and we will be crosing to the island on a ferry (or a fariy right Jen! ;D) i am definghtly looking forward to the mini adventure and i cannot wait for some sun. living in wales does have its drawbacks he? but we do have Gavin and Stacey so i gues its no to bad. tidy.

i am trying to get this blog a few more followers (or just a follower!) it is hard to publicide your self i have discoverd this and i dont know how mum and dad do it. i can smell chicken now so i will be off now happy travels rowan.

The Adventure

you many think that my adventure has all ready been and gone, and you would be right about the BEGINNING of my adventure but do not be mislead by this it does not have to mean my adventure is over because we are now planing the journey... 2!

for those of you who have followed the last blog of Pritchard travels then you will understand that I have already spent one year and a day circumnavigating the globe at the age of 8 now I am 12 we are hoping to be off again! if you are still curious about my previous travels then you can check it all out at www.3-6-6.com (go there, go there now!), but this blog is not for discussing the past if is here for the present. so if you can read through my bad 12 year old spelling then you will hopefully get the story of all my travels (as long as this stays free! or I win lots of money!).

now me and my family of 5 are now selling our house in the rural regions of south west Wales along with most of are possessions and considering buying a r.v camper van and going of in to the mists of the fun filed future! what ever happens we will be out by next year and if anyone from school is reading this and I hope there not yet any way I am sorry I haven't told you but I am trying to keep it quiet so I am not constantly being pesters by fellow class mates.

i am now going to retire this entry but before I go did you all run the sport relief mile yesterday? I did and it was surprisingly fun so I hope you all had fun to. aright talk to you all soon Bye

Artie.P ( my pen name by the way).