Anam Cara
Travel Blogs from Bridge of Allan
Pre-Trip
I am so excited about going to Australia and becoming a teenager. It shall be great. Santa will come and he will give me lots of present, I hope! I've got one more day of school left and then we are driving to Manchester to get our flight at 2pm on Thursday. I think the flight is going to really bad because its 24 hours long. What am I going to do? I hope there will be a lot of movies and nice food. ...
Planning everything
... go somewhere just because it's pre booked. We have a few books on brazil and South America so I think we will be relying on them a lot while we are there. I have also got a very fitting travel journal to write everything so as I can put it on the blog later. I have created this so as family and friends can keep up with our progress and we can remember everything too. The plan so far is once ...
Leaving Haggis Land!
... onto presumably relatives for dear life.
I'm sure people must have been thinking I was a tad deranged as I skipped merrily towards the departure gate with a huge grin on my face! Ironically, the sun was out in Glasgow for once, I figured in mockery for me flying out. But even the blue skies couldn't put a smile on the faces of those in the Departure lounge. The rows of sombre faces were more reminiscent of mourners at a funeral than a lucky bunch ...
The End of the Yellow Brick Road by Judith
We have been back just over a week now, and, like Dorothy, I have to admit, 'there is no place like home’. Enduring a twelve hour overnight flight from Hong Kong with the Scottish toddler in the seat in front of us loudly and regularly exercising the one word in his vocabulary, 'raining’, it was no surprise when we finally touched down on the tarmac at Edinburgh to find he was indeed correct. It was pouring and has continued to do ...
The plan....
On the 17th June 2011 we'll be setting off on our "Round the World" trip. Judith will have been staying at her mother's in Hertfordshire from 12th June and we will meet up on 17th. After an overnight in London we fly to Cancun on the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. We're intending to move straight on to a wee town called Tulum, further down the coast where we'll start ...