Brookfield House Taunton

We said goodbye to Joy yesterday evening which was a bit emotional. I can not wait to go myself right now. 11 Weeks and 3 days before I land in Rio. Not that I am counting!

I am yet again one step closer though: After booking the tickets, moving bedrooms, forever not trying to spend any money and Joy leaving already, I decided to tell work about my traveling plans. It was such a relief! Slowly but surely my time will come! Muahahaaa!

Well 7 weeks to GO!!!!


June is still busy buying clothes can't keep her out the shops. We are busy trying to set up all the systems we need in place and staff what they need to do in our absence.

Great finding so many people interested in what we will be doing and where we are travelling to.

Just want to get Junes problem sorted at the hospital they are messing us about. Got heavy with them today.

Watch out for the next update.

... long one of 11 hours. At Paris I had to go through customs again and once again all my loose bits had to come off including my belt and shoes (such a pain). As I was taking off my belt an old lady, who stood behind me, asked "how are you gonna hold up your trousers now?" Wouldn't she like to know ;-)
Then as I boarded the plane and got to my window seat I discovered a chubby bearded Mormon guy (yes u can spot them a mile away) sitting in my seat. So I had to debate whether it worth ...

Well - being in Cardiff was good since it is the closest airport, being on a 2-hr drive to the hotel. But had to wait about an hour for the rental car place to open up.

At least I got to go through the visitor information brochures and grab a bite at Burger King.

Am flying to Gran canaria today :-D cant wait to go and just making sure i have the last few things..

I went to Bridgwater carnival last night which was brilliant watching
all the floats but made sure was back early to get some sleep.



My flight is at 1:30pm and i arrive at 5:30pm the plan once im there is
to get a bus to our hotel, Josh wants to get a ...

... is not really a speed demon, but the slower pace suits us fine as we are in no hurry... it also conserves fuel which is important considering the distance we will be covering over the next few months. So we don't really go faster than 50 mile/hr (80km/h for the aussies at home) and we avoid the motorways as there generally is ...

... totally fogged in and the boat was ****** and full of punk school children or really old people....

my whole route to get to the farm was totally unplanned, and i left later than i was hoping for anyways as i stayed in bed until 10am and then spend half the morning looking for my thermarest mattress with no such luck... i will have to get it from arno another time.

I started writing on the plane:
"Just been reminded of Tom's pronounciation of 'Phuket' (read '****it'). Quite funny and it makes me giggle.

The actual start of the journey was a little bit of a nervous one. We sort of managed to get the departure time of our coach wrong and we left the house a little bit late. Shirls digged out her organisation skills and so we found out that the ...

... my last visit to the UK, is the growning number of one-way systems being developed around the towns and cities, to avoid through-traffic. Fair-enough, but for someone like my aunty, she has to drive right around the small town to the other side before she can access the town center... rather annoying! My stay with my Aunt was lovely, and she told me stories about my mum and her other aunties. I now have evidence where my stubborness is herited from.

... right behind us. I was hoping they hadn't heard his remarks - a fight with a a bunch of Poles in an English pub isn't on my list of things to do on this trip! The one Pole who spoke half-decent English started up a conversation, and then suddenly one of his friends shows up with vodka shots for everyone. The Englishman (David) and I accepted the shots and we all had a nice chat in broken English, and the shots kept coming. David was already half ...