Best Western The Rose And Crown Hotel Colchester

... nasty to them !!! but then I AM A CAT !!! GRRRRRRRR..
Now I sense a holiday coming on..........bags are being packed again........so I will keep you informed.
Well I am a bit busy now, so incase I forget to "Blog" you, have a Great Christmas in you new home. Blog as soon as I can. Love you both lots XXXXXXXXXX meow meow XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

So after 6 months away and visiting 8 different countries, we have now arrived, reluctantly, back in England. Although its not as cold as we were expecting, which is a bonus!

We have had a fantastic time and visited some amazing places, and we are now hoping that reality doesn't hit us too hard!

Hope that you have enjoyed our blog and will probably see most of you shortly.

... but not being able to catch these feathered creatures, I decide to venture a little further in to the garden. Now granny has realised that she can't see me from the back door, so looks out the side window to see me wandering off out of her sight..so she, being too worried in case I go too far ( I mean.......am I stupid ?? I know the way to the back door for cat's sake) But just before she ...

Well I'm woken up quite early to the sound of Granny's voice. She has come to collect me and take me back home with her.Granny looks a different colour !!! quite a lot browner, so she and Grandad have been somewhere hot !! So I collect up all my belongings, get back in my travel basket. Brenda is sad to see me go...says I was her favourite. But I told her ...

We arrive at Stansted at about 8pm and proceed to have a, probably, day old burger somewhere in the airport. Yum. Turns out that all the shops, in the departure lounge and outside, close at about 9pm so we have to sit around for 4 hours before our flight boards with nada to do.

Finally we get on the flight with a load of other backpacker types and head to Malaysia!

Yes folks,
If you have received this message its because you are lucky (or unlucky) enough to be included in the group email I am writing about my time in South America, starting with Brazil.
This is just a test.... check 1,2,3...... just to make sure that this site and format is all working correctly. The travelblog 'proper' will will begin on the 22nd October.
Cya ....
T.xx

Well all of a sudden, I am bundled into my travel basket, with a few of my personal things. Now when I go to the vet, I don't have my toys with me !!!! Just a minute....., I remember Granny packing loads of her clothes into suitcases and getting a bit flustered sorting out lots of other things, including that precious pony going off somewhere ...

Weather - looks like a sunny day - yay!

So we got going as quickly as we could so that we could get to Colchester Zoo for a good long visit today. And I think we set off before 9.30am, so that was pretty good I think since breakfast wasn't available until 8.30.

It was still a fair drive to the zoo - we got there about 11am. I think we could have gotten there a little bit earlier if it hadn't have been for all of the slow little cars I got stuck behind on the ...

... home made arcade games, many of which were very amusing and taking the **** out of all sorts of things - old people, artists,the superstitious.

From there we detoured to our very good friends, The Phillips, down in Southend; and played with the greatest kid the world has ever seen. From there it was a quick trip over the QE2 bridge into the land of milk and honey - Kent.

... email address as we are no longer travellers! So my email will be michelle.vine@yahoo.co.uk and my mobile is 07786220832 - To Matt's friends - Matt of course hasn't got an email address and has no phone at the mo but if you could email me or text with your numbers I will pass them on... Cheers.... We both want to say a massive thanks to Luke (Wanaka) and Sonya and Wayne (Perth) for letting us have some normality staying with you ...