Anchor Ruthin

... or I will no doubt be sick (again)!

I will add some photo's when I arrive on the isle of Tasmania, and I will write again once I am over the jet lag.

Goodbye for now my lovely friends and family.. see you all in 6 months or so!! Love Julia x x x

Well I am happy to report that despite postal strikes I have my passport back and a multiple entry visa stamp inside.
I was so relieved to have the passport back.I really do not like to be parted from it.
All I have to do now is get through the next 4 weeks at work.Oh well I am sure I will manage.
Bye for now.

We headed back into Liverpool today and to an enormous park. It is called Sefton Park. In Sefton Park there is a boating lake, a Victorian glass house (The Palm House), a bronzed statue of Peter Pan, a ...

Well now the time has come to start preparing for the next trip away.
Yesterday was taken up with getting passport photos(why do they always look like mugshots?)
I had to have my picture taken twice.In the first set it looked like I was smiling and the guy taking the photos asked me to keep my lips together for the next lot.
Well I dont know about this.
Why cant passport photos have us looking happy.Surely we are not ...

... reasons.
Hellooo I tried to book an airline ticket with my card,this is one of the reasons I have a card, to book things online.
Anyway they unblocked my card I got my ticket and all is well.
But don't you love the banking system here.They are so security conscious that if you try to use your card they block it so you don't get ripped off.
Never mind I will be in Thailand soon,hot sun,cold beer and all will be fine with the world.

... the beach and had sandwiches amongst the pidgeons - some guy left his sandwich for about 10 seconds to get something from the bar and at least 20 pesky birds were on it in seconds!

Then we visited Machynlleth - known as the spiritual capital of Wales - home of the last Welsh led parliament in the 1400s. We were lucky enough to visit on market day - Josh spoiled me with a small dragon charm for my necklace and also a Welsh ...

... hedges. Ugly Troll does like clouds, as long as they aren't raining on her.

... seeing the family again and spending time with little Kiera as we missed her birth by hours before we left for USA. No strings attached to us this time on travelling which i hope will make it even better than before. Keep you updated with our travels as we go. Whooooopppppeeeee.

... club on Tuesday 21 February 1961. They had returned to Liverpool from Hamburg, Germany. The Cavern Club is the first playable location in The Beatles: Rock Band (the game).

To enter the club you have to go down about two floors of stairs, and then you enter a quite big cave. On early evenings the scene is open to everyone able to play guitare, and people play old beatles standards, will other join them in singing. Really nice athmosphere ...

... Mugabe was thought-provoking and rather troubling. Unfortunately as there are no oil supplies to be gained there, this form of terror continues unabated without international intervention.

Back in Liverpool, we spent the evening in a couple of pubs around Mathew Street and the Cavern Club, getting the full appreciation of the Beatles cashing-in that is going on in the city. I wonder how much more cultured this milking could possibly be come 2008.