Best Western The Grand Hotel Torquay

... to get me, I have discovered this unusual patch in the garden, this is very interesting..... shiney ground, with tiny green bits on it.....so me being extremely nosey, take a closer look.......PLOP !!!! meow meow!!!! ........I now know what a "pond" is and it can't be walked on !!!!!!! Just then granny appears....to see me charging back to the back door, with green slime hanging from my ...

... spot worthy of smoking it. We didn't stay too long in Harrods - getting foot weary and need a beer. Dinner. Went to the HSING restaurant near Warwick Avenue in Lt Venice. We had a mix-match of dishes - in particular I want to try Kung Po - I've never had it before and it didn't disappoint - Malani and Jamie thought it was too hot with chilli for them - but I like the Cashew and chicken mixture in the chilli flavoured ...

... I always exagerate) to finally put himself to sleep with a walkman playing really bad reggea kind of **** (even though it was through earphones you could hear it very well), so I asked him to put it out, which he did, but then within 5 minutes he started snorring really loud. My god, those dorms are horrible sometimes. Tomorrow AMERICA

... didn't work on my computer. And with that, the presents were done, and we moved on to the much more serious business: eating. Christmas lunch was roast pork with crackling, and roast vegetables. They were delicious - and surprisingly quick to cook, so we were actually eating at the proper mealtime, which so rarely happens (at least for me) when a roast is involved. We ate and ate and dozed and ate some more, so much so that we didn't even get ...

... than one person I've talked to back in Padova has expressed a similar urge to kick them...just because they are fat fat fat!, and as big as a panda bear (NOT that I would want to kick a panda!).  Something about those geese... And the ducks were preposterously large.  I made my way over to Piccadilly Circus, bought a theatre ticket to see No Man's Land for that evening, and strolled through ...

... Of course I wouldn't need the American style gas-fired barbeque with optional heating plate and beer cold store, the Swiss army knife that converted in to a raft, the 91 Lonely Planet guides and the survival suit that would allow me to survive in arctic waters for 20 minutes ..... but despite pairing down on these non-essential essentials "it" still didn't bloody fit. As B looked on in bemused condescension (in that way only a woman can) making her way through ...

... her drinks by dancing with the locals 7: Full moon Party in Bangkok with various Thai guys. Didn´t understand a word they said but drank a lot of Sam sun rum 8: Cafe Limon, Galapagos with Dave, Stephanie and Clement and half the local inhabitants. 9: Nha Thrang, Vietnam, Partying in Why not and the Yacht club.... Lost and found a camera! 10: Buenos Aires, Argentina, Steak nights and all night dancing. Best meals: 1: Caroline's chicken curry served in ...

... we got Greek food for lunch (if you haven't noticed, I've been trying to fit in a bunch of different kinds of foods since I knew I would be stuck with all Italian food when I was back in Rome). We walked past the Globe Theater on the way to The Tower of London. The Tower of London is actually a walled in area of the city with many different castles inside. When we entered the area, we got a tour by a "Beaneater." It was really ...

... christan church in England. Quaint villages ,foggy fields of sheep and cattle. A place of mystic, ferries and gnomes.Tommorrow is off to London Well it's the day after london. Britain lived up to it's weather reputation with rain but we sloshed our way about doing a river tour on the Thames then Britain's # 1 tourist attraction the London Eye. Basically a ferris wheel on steroids that takes you up 138 meters above the Thames opposite of Big ...

... Gothic special called Slimenight. We raided our wardrobe for the blackest garments to ensure we got in. We were successful, but were hopelessly under gothed as the creatures of the night there spent a great deal of time and energy on their look. I'm really not sure how to describe it, but if Marylin Manson had walked in he would have just blended into the crowd. These people weren't doing this as a hobby, as the Mohawks and massive amount of facial ...