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Day 19 - Dumbarton
After a leisurely breakfast, we packed the car and headed to the Belfast Port Ferry terminal. We were very early again but were unable to raise anyone on Skype so just hung around until we were allowed to board the ferry. The trip was 2 and a quarter hours so we just updated the blog words until we docked in Stranraer. Not a lot here – we …
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
So we're at the stage of planning everything. We know the basic route we want to go on, first Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands for a while as mark is heading out to work there for a bit then we can head to South America to travel around until the money runs out. Now we need to get all the details sorted but its difficult to know how much to plan because you don't want to be stuck ...
Leaving Haggis Land!
... chat. He even explained the inflight entertainment which was otherwise a complete and utter mystery to me! Definite highlights of the flight were the views, especially flying over Baghdad and Basra and even Kuwait, even though it was dark, it was still possible to see the cities all lit up below. The whole flight was surreal, I felt like I was watching myself in a film. Coming down into Dubai was amazing, we could even see the desert and swimming pools below...!
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Starting to Feel Fitter
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What a day.!!! ************g but enjoyable,,,, still selling the bike though when I get home !!!!
First hour was climbing out of Killin, only averaging 7mph. All along this part of route 7 they use bits of old disused railway lines, some of the track is good some is very flinty, bumpy and uphill gravely, this makes it hard going. (I think there needs to be a chapter about the type of bike to use, which ...
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- Wheelchair accessibility
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