Aviator Hotel Farnborough

... I think its many reasons- the mixture of cultures and people, landscapes and beliefs. The music, the cinema, the vibrancy of their political history and social movements. So the very general plan is to fly into either Chile or Argentina and then work my way up through Bolivia and Peru. For each country you automatically get a 30 day visa which you can extend, free of charge, to 90 days. I am foreseeing that by this point (3 months is Argentina ...

back to freeze in 7C rainy weather. well. it is a bank holiday so expected i suppose. bet there's a hose pipe ban all the same... now to unpack, incinerate my undies and wonder why on earth i bought those hideous place mats in china! but most importantly, it's time to sit down to mum's fab roast beef. the tim tams will have to wait!

... out there!) bus back to my home town of Cheltenham, in order to surprise the family, who still had no idea I had arrived back in Blighty. I've always wanted to walk in after an extended period away like that, and it worked pretty well actually, thanks to Dad and Deborah who actually seemed to have missed me! However, what has transpired since, can only be described as slovenly in the extreme: lots of laying about, sleeping, telly watching, internet surfing, texting and the ...

... to the condiments table to find it full of, what else, but english condiments that did not suit my fancy, then returned empty handed to my table to only to discover that my meal had been swept away by an overzealous cockeyed busser. With a pout and a pretty please I was able to secure myself another apple, but, I'm sorry to report, the sandwich was a lost cause.....*sigh* Now trying not to stare as I try to the decipher what language the young gentlemen ...

... girls got loud and shameless, stealing carrots from night shop outdoor vegetable stand. In a city like London that is overpacked with CCTV. Dumb! Floh got the bad idea to invite them all at Dana.. What could I do, I was not drunk enough to not realise it was a ****** idea, but I was also simply there with Floh and didn't know Dana although its me who had the keys. I could hardly say something in such situation. Basically I was in a ****** dilemma. It ended up that floh ...

... old-f*shioned pub th*t still h*d its origin*l snugs, wooden comp*rtments with closing doors th*t open up to * sm*ll sp*ce on the b*r, so you c*n drink in pe*ce observed only by the b*rtender. The next d*y, we w*lked *ll over London, r*cking up well over 10 miles on the bottoms of our tired feet. We m*n*ged to find h*lf-price tickets to the the*ter, * sm*ll pl*y c*lled "Love Song" with some big n*mes in it. Cilli*n Murphy w*s the le*d, perh*ps best ...

... drove around my old grammar school which was now a sixth form school or somesuch. Nothing was happening there either. What has happened to Saturday afternoon soccer? No wonder England is not the football force it used to be and all the premier teams are made up with foreigners. I parked in Cherrywood Road football ground car park...more like an marina with all the water hanging around! It was 12.30pm and I went into the ...

Welcome to my first journal entry. Countdown to flight: 2 days, 13 hours and 45 minutes. I've moved out of my flat, temporarily quit my job, had all those nasty injections, I've even got my ticket - now all I need to do is pack my bag and board the plane! For those of you unaware of my plans, I am travelling to South America for 3.5 months with my friend Debbie. She's off on a round the ...

... Elsewhere, I have been looking for other jobs, but it seems pointless getting another job unless I seriously put the tickets back again (and face the wrath of the STA Lady....Hmmm)Have been debating the idea of September, but if I say Sept, I might as well make it Christmas and so forth. Still in two mind what to do about everything. I've been thinking maybe about using the money to start my ...

... and forever changing dates/destinations and money needed, thus always delaying the trip. Also the fact that I have no girlfriend, mortgage ties and that I'm fed up with various other things make this an ideal time to go. So.......I'm now the owner of a travelling ticket, courtesy of a xmas present from my Dad (thanks for that dad). Will be leaving at the end of April towards India and travelling around to Mexico before ...