Aston Hotel Dumfries

Well I was all set to leave, my brother arrived to pick me up and told me that my father had passed away that morning. Devastating news. Rang Real Gap straight away and they were really good about everything. Have postponed trip until after the funeral which is this Friday.

Will update when I have details of my flights and my new itinerary.

... affair. This is good though, as the next time I am here will be on the day of my last injections - which is also day before I depart - so there will be precious little time for social arrangements.

This evening marked precisely 2 weeks to departure - awesome! XD

Think I've packed up everything in the house now, feels weird without the cats being here. I think that's one of the toughest things I've ever had to do. I hope they go to a good home....

Sold the car and rented out the flat and packed my life into a box. Strange feeling.

It's the start of a new chapter ...

... by an hour and it all went by in a bit of a blur.

I found the bus stop to take me to my hotel and froze in my mules as I hadn't wanted to carry a pair of boots just for transit at either end - but I was in good company as some people had decided to dispense with their coats too and were chattering. I checked in and got to bed ready for a 630 start.

The joining instructions said check in 3 hours early - who does that? People in ...

we arrived at Heathrow at about 5am which was bloody early even for us plus it was cold. It was pretty uneventful and delivered us safely to Doha.

We stayed in Doha airport for around 3.5 hours, bought some cheap fags (which were rubbish) the highlight being, there was a smoking room. A proper Opium den ...

... a hatso ulest, de higgyem el, hogy betuszkoljuk.

A vegen egyebkent mar a szervezok is mind odajottek, hogy megkerdezzek, ki vagyok. Az egyik meg le is foglalt a kovetkezo tancra, hogy megnezze mit tudok.:) Nagyon helyesek voltak. Tanc kozben az osszes oreg neni , meg bacsi szoszerint kezrol kezre adogatott, ugy vezettek vegig a lepeseken.

Gregor McGregor tehat megprobalt hazafuvarozni, de szegenykem nagyon szenvedett a hatso ulessel, akkor en lehajtottam neki ...

Haliho..hohohoooJ, MikulasJ

Na, mindegy

Huh, sok mindent kene leirnom, bar erdekes, hogy Erasmus alatt kb. Havonta ha irtam valamit, itt meg joval kevesebb dolog tortenik. Bar mivel nagyreszt dolgozom, es azt a keves szabadidomet meg nem akarom a szgep elott tolteni, ezert nincs is nagyon idom irni. Igy furan szoktak ram nezni, amikor 3 orat ulok a staff room-ban es netezek, skype-olok, levelet irok, stb. Jo lenne egy mobilinternet a szobamba, de meg ...

... place to visit.

From there we drove around the Border Regions of England, checking out Hadrian's Wall - built by the Roman Hadrian to keep the Scottish clans from attacking them - and then up across the border itself into sunny Scotland. An hour in to the country, Helly received the phone call we were dreading - the call to come back to work early. *sigh* So that was the ...

... five in the afternoon and with the sun long down, we parked up in a roadside country parking lot beside Nith Estuary. We were here because it was within walking distance of Caeverlock Castle, the first of what was to be many castle ruins. Instead of waiting to see the castle in daylight, we headed out with torches, following a winding path through thick marshlands to the back entrance of the ...

So, time once again to say our goodbyes and leave home. Almost a year to the day since we flew home from Bangkok, skint but happy! It didn't take long before we were back in to the swing of things at home, although it took a few weeks before I fully started to trust the tap water. The Manx diet of chips, cheese & gravy washed down with several pints of ale also took a while to get used to ...