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... dinner last Saturday - it was fantastic! And to say to my mum - can't wait for our second christmas dinner this Sunday - woohoo!

Very excited at the moment about going on our adventure - but going to miss all our fantastic friends and family!

Ash

Ps won't miss the cold mind. brrr.

A quick update. Things have moved on, including us. We're pleased to report that a few days ago Brian the van was declared healthy, after some serious re-constructive surgery!

On Monday we left Norfolk and began a series of public transport journeys that would take us from Norwich to London, London to Cheltenham (to visit with friends for a couple of nights) and then Cheltenham to Birmingham to finally pick up our beloved Brian. We ...

Finally worked out my route.

Fly to Armenia, travel through Georgia to Turkey and fly from Istanbul to Mumbai. Work my way across to Calcutta and fly to Bangkok. Through Thailand and Cambodia to Vietnam, then onto China.

I am setting off early September 2010 and aim to be in China early December, maybe.

And then I have to get back...

... and second-generation ID cards.
Liu said that the ever-expanding capabilities "City Card" The goal is to create digital Shenyang, in 2002, the company had to examine the "City Card" brush gas and water features.
"Now, Heping District, Shenyang, Guiyang cell being tested, the residents that very convenient." Liu said, but because of lack of funds, it is not to promote the city.
She is in Shenyang, "p. 200 million"

There’s a picture of Laura and me taken about a year ago, standing in our pyjamas on the morning of our wedding with the event location owner. We were deciding the pudding menu for the reception that evening and I was yet to pick what I was going to wear for the ceremony and the party. So with that sort of attitude to organising our own wedding, it’s not surprising that despite a year’s ...

... 45 minutes while he takes his break, what a joke! We stop at a service station and I wait around while he takes his break and we get on our way again. Finally I arrive at Helena and Phil's house at 00:30 and sneak in a get straight to bed. What a day!!!

... for about 2 years already, putting my life on hold, changin jobs to save money, relationships being put off, telling people I'm not available during 2010, but obviously not moving much.

A very good friend, (who will appear in blogs about the same time I hit the caribbean) said to me that people say to here we are very lucky to be going on this awesome trip, however she made the point of saying luck has nothing to do with it. Yes ok we are fortunate that we ...

... who has come to return us to normality.

Normality? Whatever’s that going to be? The stay in Portugal may have offset any kind of celebratory homecoming or did it help to ease us gradually back down to earth, after what has undoubtedly been the adventure of a lifetime? We’ve seen fantastic sights and experienced amazing things that will stay with us forever. This was a trip that was only in our dreams and was never ...

... been so successful. Because ever since I was a young child, I knew that at some time in my life, I would travel around the world. To me, New Zealand wasn't a country on the other side of the planet, it was somewhere I was waiting to visit. Fiji wasn't just some name plucked out of the air to evoke a sense of far flung exotic beaches, it was a place I'd simply not yet got to. It was one of those real certainties- the sky is blue, gravity exists, and I will see all of ...

... up terraces with metal shutters - more like being in Toxteth than Leicester. Amidst all the boarded up pubs and take-aways was the Labour Office. It was interesting that the party in power has their offices in perhaps the worst part of town. I suddenly felt more admiration but then remembered the spat in the Commons and grimly walked on. One thing I have noticed about Leicester is the amount of spit on the pavements. It is completely disgusting.