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7 weeks, 5 days and 3 resignations.
... do. Followed by more packing a month later into my old trusty 65L rucksack from my South Africa days.
We also booked insurance with STA travel when we booked our flights, but have since found insurance waaay cheaper so have cancelled that and are waiting to re-book new (cheaper) insurance. Obviously ensuring it has a very extensive sports ...
A wee trip to Scotland for Hogmanay
After a few weeks at home for Christmas I came back to the UK to spend new year/hogmanay in Scotland with my mates. Kelly and I stayed at Eilidh's house and her mom Gale took us on the "Gale tour of Scotland" which basically was us bombing around the highlands in Gale's Audi looking at sites from the car because the weather was so horrible. It was fun though. I met a new best friend, he's a giraffe. After a ...
Back home
... to want to travel further and see more of what this great big world of ours has to offer. And writing this blog had given me the spark I needed to want to start writing again. I hope it hasn't been too dull for you and I hope you had the chance to learn something as well as I have. If you haven't been to America, go. If you haven't ever travelled, do it. There is so much to see and do out there that, to coin a phrase, the world truly is your ...
Life on the road
... of pasta, because you use all the ingredients you buy and you don't need many. But we also have tuna mornay, meat with frozen packet vegetables or stir-fries. Sometimes the hostels have a 'free food' shelf, where other people leave behind ingredients they didn't need all of, and if there are sauces and spices and baking stuff we can be more creative. Sometimes we go out to restaurants, or pubs, especially if there's a local dish we want to try or if we didn't have soup for lunch and ...
To Cycle or not to Cycle
... get to see the Lake District!
I guess both of us are enjoying cycling and like that we're traveling that way. And as painful (and wet) as it can be at times, we are glad that we're doing it. That and the strange looks that come across people's faces when we tell them what we're doing is worth a great laugh. And if we do succeed, we'll both feel a great sense of pride in what we've done.
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