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Goodbye Huddersfield - We're off round the World
We are going round the world tomorrow! It was an exciting but slightly scary thought for both of us and it felt like we had loads to do before we would feel ready to board the plane. Perhaps here is the best place for a bit of background info on our ...
The Countdown it on
Well, the countdown has begun in earnest now... after months of talking about it to each other, then talking to other people about it, then talking to various travel agents about it, we are now fully vaccinated (you all know how much I hate needles!), we ...
Day 26
... last time. We piled into the car with Uncle Graham and Aunty Pat and waved to Leo and Elaine as we drove off towards Huddersfield. The drive to Huddersfield took just over 2 hours with us stopping for petrol around 30 minutes away from our ...
There is a great deal of wickedness....
"There is a great deal of wickedness in village life" Miss Marple, The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie Part One Lucky for us we discovered none of the wickedness frequently encountered by Miss Marple in our time in the English Countryside though ...
5 Weeks to go.........
21st August 2006 Well we are closer than ever now and we are really excited about our trip. We are busy making the final, and I might add, the most important preparations. I am busy buying a whole new wardrobe to take with me while Daniel is busy ...
Love the Dogs!
Thank you to everyone who came to the dogs, we had a fantastic time! Here are some photo's of you ...
On our way!
WOW what a week! No sooner had we unpacked our bags and repacked our belongings into storage we were packing again to start our adventure! We had only a very short time to catch up with family before we were saying our goodbyes again. Although we never ...
And now the end is here....
Since packing in our jobs 10 months ago we have been on a roller coaster of adventure and emotion. Today is our final day in Rio, this time tomorrow we will be back to life in England, back to reality. There will be no one waiting for us at the airport ...
Part 2
Where does time go we ask ourselves as we are yet again packing our back packs for part 2 of our great adventure. We've spent 4 fabulous weeks at home between trips during which time we were able to experience the coldest winter in about 30 years which ...
Driving home for Christmas
We have travelled 9,850km over 43 days from Nairobi overland to Cape Town with Acacia on a 24 seater truck – Shangani and our tour leader Heini from Namibia and our driver Anthony from Kenya. We couldn't have asked for 2 better people to guide us ...
Huddersfield Narrow
Filled up with water in order to have as much weight in front of boat to keep prop as high as poss and off we went through the little tunnel and into first lock onto the narrow. Both on boat as no access by foot to next lock. BIG ...
Step 27 - Swim Across the Atlantic Ocean
... at all ethnic. The girl I was talking with was of Iranian descent, they stopped her for nearly 20 mins. 4th: Drove to Huddersfield. Made breakfast. Took longest nap of life in the Princess Room (felt like I was 5) 5th: Woke up, tea time. 6th: ...
Project BBB - the planning
Hi all, this is still a project in the planning ! Am sort of er..... lying to you all at mo, hate it. Yep, am going to resign hopefully next few weeks - when you hear the why's and wherefore's hopefully you'll be ...
We have reached normality...
... detail of my life. They had to call Neil and make sure I wasn't lying. I passed the test it seems. We drove back to Huddersfield and unpacked a few things and walked into town. We bought a sim card for my phone and then walked back to Neil's flat. We ...
One Day To Go...
"All my bags are packed, Im ready to go I'm sitting here outside your door La la la la la, la la, la la Cos I'm leaving on a jet plane Don't know when I'll be back again (July 3rd)" So, I've packed my sensual rucksack, for the ladies. It ...
Pre trip
Being looked after by my mum in preparation for setting off down to London on Wednesday and flying to Delhi on ...
"Always Licked, Never Beaten"
... is so vicious. And it will was. Nonetheless, 160 stairs later I was at the top of the tower and looking down on my kingdom. There's a compass sort of thing at the top and tells you all the different towns and villages and where they are in relation to ...
Final thoughts and Tetley's tea!
We landed at Manchester Airport to a crystal clear sunny sky and a hard white frost on the ground. It was nice to land in the sun but it was bloody freezing! So incredible really that only 32 hours before we have been stood in central Melbourne in 30 ...
Huddersfield Narrow
Once again early start as expected at Standedge Tunnel tonight. Met at next lock by our friendly lockies who will be helping us through the very shallow sections. Sunny day somewhat warmer. Air getting thinner as we get higher. Think we ...
Huddersfield Narrow
8.30am and BW measuring up Ogley to make sure she would fit in tunnel. All pots, chimney etc off top of boat. Both kitted up with hard hats and hi viz vests. Uneventful journey through tunnel. Our escort let us get off boat to have ...
Tea Time is Every Time
... the time. So when I decided that I wanted a navy blue dress, I went to every single shop that sells women's clothing in Huddersfield and found 5 navy dresses, none of which were what I wanted. Damn. So I settled on one from Dorothy Perkins, but I'm also ...
Arriving in Huddersfield
... the sixth form colleges Greenhead College, Kirklees College and Huddersfield New College Huddersfield is a town of Victorian architecture. Huddersfield railway station is a Grade I listed building and was described by John Betjeman as 'the most splendid ...
4 days before departure!!
Ok......so the nerves are kind of kicking in, actually no I was more nervous last weekend. But now I am just VERY excited. Cannot wait to see what it's going to be like. The anticipation is killing me more than anything, the not knowing. the completely ...
Congratulations!!
Firstly, because you have managed to find my blog and secondly, because you are now officially my armchair travel companions. This seems like it will be the easiest way to keep you all up to date with my travels without having to write lots of separate ...
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