St. Neots
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The Bill: £23,616.35
How much does it cost for a husband and wife to travel round the world for a year? Lots of people ask us, so click on the photo above to see the breakdown of our expenses *We spent our up-front dollars cash and travellers cheques usually in countries ...
A list of what we carried for 1 year
We thought that we´d write a list of the things that we took with us. They are not written in any particular order and I´m sure will differ from person to person. Perhaps it will be of some use to travellers to preparing for a big trip although it is ...
At home
Less than 2 weeks to go before we leave. We've sold 2 cars, 1 motorbike, agreed with friends Amanda and Jeroen to rent them the house, tidied the garden, had about 20 injections each, handed in notice at work, bought 2 round the world tickets, ...
Our first week
... it by 1/3. I really don't see how I can live without all the essential items I have already picked out.. In the evening we have our leaving dinner in St Neots. I'm looking forward to seeing my friends and saying farewell before our adventure ...
Bye Bye St Neots
... I was ready to go. Passport check,Credit Card check, Ipod check I was really going. I said my goodbyes and that was it ,Bye Bye St Neots. Bye Bye to the life I had known from here on out everything would be different. Well at least for the next year or ...
John's Plan
We decide to visit Argentina. Our choice is made very rapidly, spurred on by Gaelle, who we travelled with in South America. She came to visit us at home and gave us plenty of tips for places to visit. Sami, who ...
Goodbye Blighty
... , we travel from home, my Mum and Dad are kindly looking after the house, and more importantly the Cat, so will take us to St. Neots railway station, then to off to Kings Cross, via Kings Cross Underground to Heathrow. The actual flight is at 5pm UK ...
Preparing for the big day
There are just so many things to organise, closing down everything at home....saving enough money to pay for the strorage costs for all our stuff !! what a rip off.....BUT....there isn't any choice so just have to grin and bear it. Did we really have to ...
Reflection & Preparation
Introduction I have never written a diary. Never kept a journal. Not chronicalled or recorded my life in any major way since the day i was born. In fact the only time I have ever really seen someone else's attempt at such, was a journal kept by my great ...
Initial excitment
We've spent a year resting and recooperating back at home after our around the world trip 2005-2006. It was the best year of my life and it took some time settling back into the routines of a "normal" working life. John started to work self employed ...
leaving on a jet plane (but not till sunday!)
Perhaps the last entry whilst we're sat here in my lovely home in sunny old St Neots overlooking Mipsy's shiny red Renault Megane. Well we have now entered scary territory where we realise the trip we booked almost a year ago is now upon us, as in no less ...
Sunny England!
... famous English breakfast! Massive thanks to you guys, Phillypito and mummy Carlijn for taking us overseas! After a few days in St Neots we traveled by train to the sunny north, where it actually was sunny! Enough about the English weather though... ...
Settling In
... the banks and unwind. At the end of one of these paths is the River Mill Tavern, a great place to unwind further. But St. Neots’ most endearing feature is that it is only 40 minutes from London by train. With living arrangements sorted I had time ...
EFR Instructors!!
Today we had a very early start (5am) to catch a 6:30am train down to St Neots to meet up with Steve & Jan as well as our fellow future IDC candidates, oh and we also had to sit the strenuous EFR Instructor course. It is a prerequisite of becoming a ...
On the road and away from work
... I chose the wrong one ! If you look at the map above we ended up near Brickhill, so a round trip of 40 minutes from St Neots (we had already driven past the Premier Inn) to Brickhill and back again ! LOL !!! Anyway ended back and went straight into ...
Ely to St Neots
... front going up. This lock is quite deep, and the guillotine gate is extremely slow, so it took some time to get through. At St Neots we moored opposite the town, on the meadows. This was fine for Hugo. We spent some time in the shops. ...
St Neots and back via Bedford
... done without one. There is meant to be a water tap at the Priory but it is not connected. We moved on past St Neots Marina which looked impossible for narrowboats, and arrived at the Mill at Eaton Socon, which boldly advertised a water tap outside, ...
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