Summerville Guest House Blackpool

Well my 50th birthday was approaching, and I have done my fair share of Travel and Travel experiences, Played Football and Rugby all over the world, Watch my footy team all over the world. Jumped, parachuted, rafted, zip lined, climbed and ascended water falls, pot holes, caves and other adventure activties.

The Next Climb Kilimanjaro, fe...

BALI , EAST OF BILBAO

"I fancy Northern Spain .“

“Uhh! What?"

“I'd like to go to Northern Spain.”

“Gill, its seven o’clock.”

“I know but you’ve got to have something to look forward to haven’t you ?”

“I’m looking forward to my ...

So a tad over 3 weeks to go now. I really dont know if I have missed anything in all my preparations of late.

I have pulled out the old faithful backpack and am repeatedly deciding what to take / not to take. First few nights accomodation are all taken care in a few early destinations, I am doing that to slowly ease myself out of the comf...

Today started early ( as most have so far for some reason 4am seems to be the chosen waking time for the Legges in the UK)

Weather today was chilly and ended up with showers but managed to stay dry :-)


We took the bus into town and met a lovely man on the bus who gave us some tourist hints along with comments of us being mad to...

Had an early start this morning, obviously slept enough on the plane so Ron and I were up at 4am!!! After a couple of hours of tittilating UK TV we decided to rug up and go out for a walk.It was a beautiful morning though brisk.

We then ehaded back to wait for our chauffeur to turn up to take us to Liverpool. Mum's car had mufflre trouble...

Lee and Shane arrived on Thursday and so did the snow! After finishing term with Christmas music in Manchester Cathedral we headed of on Saturday for Liverpool. There was some light snow as we arrived in Liverpool. We booked a nights accommodation in the Ibis hotel. Good clean, spaciuos and basic room.
Rhonda, Lee and Shane went on the "Magic...

Left the house without flight documents, no sleeping bag, ... and barely any money.

The vast majority of which was taken up by two loaves of cheese and salami sandwiches. I just about had room for a couple of spare pairs of boxers and socks, six bags of sweets, a torch and my phone, wallet, keys and passport.

Fortunately, I wasn't...

This was a first for me, i'd never been sailing. I remeber the first impressions of the boat was it being rather small about 30ft. The first few days were spent drinking and partying and in 2 days time we would be setting sail towards the start line of the Tall Ships Races 2008.

I remeber thinking where am I going to sleep without gettin...

When I checked into Liverpool's International Inn, it was not only the first time I had to pay for accommodation in more than a month, it would also be the last time I'd have to pay for it. And my final hostel stay would allow me to rediscover both the good and the bad of the life. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

When I arrived in Liverp...

So there we were, a few days before we were all set to pack our bags to begin our hitch, deciding how we would get ourselves to the south coast; to hitch or not to hitch.

I think we agreed that if we could get a train ticket for less than £15 we'd just do that. We picked 'em up for about a tenner so kicked of the trip with a 300 mile trai...