Cambridgeshire Moat House

John

It was really sad leaving Israel. The flight back to Heathrow was about 4 hours by Jumbo then we bussed it back to Cambridge an hour late after I mixed up the bus tickets. We reached the flat in Cambridge around 1 am exhillerated but exhausted. What a brilliant two weeks!

Sue

It was very hard to leave Israel ...

Welcome to my first (and probably only) BLOG!

I have just booked a 32 week (8month-ish) overland trip to australia, taking in 23 countries by way of a big orange truck and my little one-man tent (which I have yet to buy!!).
I won't tell you how much this has cost, it makes me cry just to think about it... But if you ...

... will exist in my backpack. This will take some getting used to I think! I also seem to have come down with a rather wonderful cold- still, better here than on arrival in Bangkok.

One week tomorrow- oh my god! I just can't believe its come around so soon, feels like yesterday it was just an idea and now its a week away. Still lots to sort out, scanning a million things I will probably ...

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!

... Jane and Alison were punted up and down the Cam River by Danny the punter – very lazy and enjoyable (for the ladies at least) according to J & A.
At the conference dinner we talked to interesting researchers from England, Africa and Norway. The English bloke said he had made his own radio telescope-thingy out of old TV sets when he was thirteen and had gone on to advise the government on educational technology.

... the locals being the most friendliest people I've met since Australia; the fantastic University buildings; the Weeping Willows drinking from the river; the diversity of it's market (Caribbean cakes for dinner!) and just a nice ambiance about the place. Can't rate it enough...and a 100% better than it's rival, Oxford, which we visited soon after for work reasons ...

Home again, and very happy to be here! I thought I'd write a final entry to let everyone I haven't seen know that I am back and safe and just starting the next adventure of sorting out my life now that I'm no longer on a year-long holiday! I arrived off the plane to a wall of heat and thought England was smiling to have me back, but of course it was raining again by the next day! The car number plates looked too large and everyone sounded so very ...

... s sisters and enjoyed myself in London. I would be disappointed if we didn't go back every year - Just to see the hundred different shades of green on the vegetation, smell the air rich with the scents of an English summer and yes, if I never got to 'punt' on the River Cam I'd be missing out.

... the done thing here and I still haven't tracked down a medium sized one that isn't ludicrously expensive (by Aussie standards... if I let myself drift into thinking in pounds as I'm starting to it would seem fine). I was thinking though of getting a helmet that I can use both for snowboarding and bike riding... there are a couple of skate shops around I could buy one from. Then I can snowboard this Christmas instead of skiing ...

Cambridge was a last minute decision as we didn't find out until the night before the trip that the normal 1-1/2 hour train ride to Salisburz and Stonehenge would take 3 hours on weekends. That was the pace that we had originally planned to visit and was looking forward to. Neither Sandra nor myself wanted to spend 6 hours of our time on the train, so we decided to go to Cambridge. (We had also considered Windsor and Oxford, but they were thrown out the window as they too had ...