Castle Ruthin

Well, as I will no doubt be running round like a mad woman tomorrow I thought it best to start this today! My last full day at home for some time. I am packed and ready to go!!

I am very nervous and cant really think of anything beyond tonight at the ...

Well I am happy to report that despite postal strikes I have my passport back and a multiple entry visa stamp inside.
I was so relieved to have the passport back.I really do not like to be parted from it.
All I have to do now is get through the next 4 weeks at work.Oh well I am sure I will manage.
Bye for now.

... area, lawn tennis courts, a band stand and a cafe! We had a great time.

Here is a website with more information about Sefton Park:
http://www.visitliverpool.com/ site/sefton-park-p90321

Well now the time has come to start preparing for the next trip away.
Yesterday was taken up with getting passport photos(why do they always look like mugshots?)
I had to have my picture taken twice.In the first set it looked like I was smiling and the guy taking the photos asked me to keep my lips together for the next lot.
Well I dont know about this.
Why cant passport photos have us looking happy.Surely we are not ...

... details and then all was well.
Actually no.All was not well.I am sorry said a very polite woman at emirates,your bank has blocked your card.NOOOOO.
Oh well I would have to contact my bank.
I got straight onto the phone,one of those premium numbers that cost a fortune and of course while I was waiting to speak with a person who could help me my phone ran out of credit.No worries I would just have to top it up using my,oh ohhh card.
Overton, England, United Kingdom chiangmaigreg

... tradidionally given by the man to his lady friend as a sign of love and devotion.

Tonight we're staying in Bala - a lakeside town, known for it's watersports and prehistoric fish that inhabit the lake! Dinner was at a pub (for something new!) and we enjoyed Steak and Brains stout pies - Brains is a beer brewed in Cardiff that Josh is enjoying - he is also getting into the Magners and Bulmers ciders!

Nos Da!
XO

Ugly Troll's Hat of Awesome (both of them) was upstaged today by a giant Lamb Banana in hippie cloth. What ...

Right, so we go back to England from USA and i went back to Airbus for a few months till we leave for our round the world trip again and manage to sell the house. That is done so have also arranged to get a pay off for leaving Airbus so helps with the travel budget. Its been ...

... respectable amount of time in pubs accross Ireland, Scotland and England I think that I'm able to understand quite normally people speaking english with an accent. But when this lady talked to us, it could well have been in chineese or hungarian, I didn't get a single word...

We had a kind of "room + football" ticket accomodation with this hotel, and everything went fine. The four tickets were here, the rooms were booked for us, there was ...

... thought that soccer related violence had improved greatly since the 1990’s, but perhaps I was wrong, and it was a gloomy thing to see.

Ali and I then drove the thirty miles east along the M62 to Manchester, spending the afternoon taking in its central landmarks like St Peter’s Square and Piccadilly Gardens.

“Once upon a time, not too long ago, we took a day out in Manchester,
But we all fall down ‘coz there ...