Buckinghams Hotel Chesterfield

... 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.

How could anything be worse than the Ball Breaker? How? And yet it was. Damn the kilometres of bog, damn the no bacon butty truck on the highway, damn the twisty part where you go around curve after curve after curve and don’t see anything ahead of you but CURVE. Then damn the “ ...

... I was walking on. They’d paved the path with boulders?! On purpose?!

This was when my leg started coming out of its socket.

The Greedy Sheep Incident

Pennine sheep are in some parts greedy having been feed by walkers they rather expect food now. They will sneak up behind you but if you wave a stick they kind of run away and wait for you to stop paying attention again. I asked Ryan (remorseless *******) to watch ...

Well the day has finally arrived! The alarm was set for 6.00am but we were both awake before it went off. After a quick breakfast we were on the bike heading for a rendevous at Colin's house in Halling in the rain!

After a quick cup of tea, Leigh up turned on his Triumph Tiger and it was time to set off for the Marsden to meet Lyndsey & David & guess what it ...

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...

... market, car shopping is very convenient, the use of stored-value tickets, the one card in hand, you can take all the buses. The use of stored-value tickets in the future can also be extended to minibuses, taxis, subway, shopping malls, etc., a card can be used in various places.
3. Can improve the efficiency of vehicle operation, saving travel time. Use of non-contact type IC card stored-value tickets, to complete a ...

... 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!!!

... 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 ...

Well my journey begins off to Worcester for my last fews days in this little but very over crowded country. Time to say goodbye to clean toilets and clean, well everythin, and hello to dirt. Cant be that bad been in worse. Lets get it started hahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

... company and/or an experience, and I am always looking for new ones. My kids manage to come up with something different every year. I still recall my day white water rafting with great pleasure. This year they really surprised me by buying me a Scottish Highland Title! I am now officially the 'Laird of Glencairn'. Not something I would have ever dreamed about in a thousand years but definitely a gift which includes the humour, originality and surprise I have come to expect ...