Homelea Guest House Birmingham
2399 Coventry Road Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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Guess who we bumped into!
... pair to follow after. We paired up with a hire boat whose crew were new to boating, having left their base the day before when the only member with any previous experience of handling a boat was required to fly abroad on urgent business. They had continued the cruising valiantly and doing a creditable job with a very young man (aged 12) at the helm, an older man providing the muscle and working the locks and a very ...
Nesting
... well, baking biscuits and attempting a pork belly dinner which turned out amazingly.
But after a few weekends spent at home "nesting" and generally improving our abode, it was time to feel normal again and do some serious drinking. It was Neil's birthday and he invited us out for drinks on Saturday night to celebrate. On Sunday morning I woke with a raging hangover and minimal memories from the night before. I couldn't work ...
That's all folks
... 8211; now there are not many things that we can thank the French for but you have to give them credit for great bread and luckily one of the things they left when they lost control of Vietnam was Baguettes. The best ones were defiantly from the ladies on the side of the road filled with either pate, pork or roasted duck and loads of herbs with spicy sauce to finish it off..yummy.
About to leave...
So I am about to leave for Australia...very scary but unbelievably exciting at the same time! I am going to miss everyone so much, but I will always be able to stay in touch via Facebook, iMessage, Whatsapp, Viber etc the list goes on!
Take care everyone and I will next blog from Oz!! ...
Goodbye UK!
So we've said our goodbye's, shed a few tears and even managed to cram in numerous drinks!
We left the Novotel Airport hotel with a heavy heart and joined the check-in queue. All went well but then my bag tested positive for explosives - how!? After some further tests and questions we were ...


