15^th - 24^th June 2010 (Pescara - Italy)

On the Tuesday morning we went for our last early morning swim in Canet before heading off to compete in Pescara. After the session we finished with a little bit of Pilates and then packed our bags to leave for the airport. We were getting a mini bus to drive us to the airport that was actually in Spain. So we stayed in France, got a bus to Spain and then flew from Spain to Italy. It was a strange trip, but at all went smoothly and we had landed in Pescara before we knew it :-)

11^th - 15^th June 2010 (Canet - France)

On Friday morning we travelled to Canet in a convoy of coaches as it was not too far away, and a lot of swimmers were going to the next meet in the Mare Nostrum series, which started in Canet the following day. The journey took around 3 hours and consisted mostly of a tournament on our Nintendo DS. We were playing Mario Cart, which is a great game to kill time on long journeys. We all used them at the Beijing Olympics and have been hooked ever since. I ended up winning the tournament. Good old Yoshi :-)

Barcelona - Spain (8^th - 11^th June 2010)

It was an early start on Tuesday morning for the trip down to Luton airport ready to get our flight out to Barcelona. This was the start of our European tour. The tour consisted of 4 international meets across Europe, starting in Barcelona (Spain) then moving on to Canet (France) then we will fly onto Pescara (Italy) and finally fly back to compete in Paris (France), before heading home at the end of June.

16^th - 29^th May 2010 (B.E.S.T Centre)

As part of the British National Squad, we have a number of compulsory events each year. This is a time when we all meet up together and bond as a team. This time British swimming has organised a two week camp is in Mallorca, at the B.E.S.T centre. I was here a couple of weeks ago with my training group, all 8 of us, now I'm out here with around 50 others. That includes swimmers and team staff.

Me and my training group which included, Ross Davenport, Grant Turner, Lizzie Simonds, Fran Halsall, Kate Haywood, Lowri Tynan and our coach Ben Titley headed over to Mallorca for a week's training camp.