Chandlers Hotel Weymouth

... informando.

After 6 years sharing our lives in this small town in Somerset, finally we left the country to return to Spain. But as you can see, there won´t be a direct flight, we will deviate a little, and let's go around the world in 60 days. We will keep reporting

After a lovely couple of days with Art & Thurza Comben when on Sunday the drive over from Christchurch was fine and sunny we found a Vintage Motor Cycle run from Britbits in Iford with a Wurzal lookalike group playing live and singing "Drink up thee Cider Garge", gorgeous and in beautiful weather we got to Crewkerne in time for a late lunch.

Monday Lona & Thurza were dropped off in Yeovil to shop while Art ...

... 10 miles..........but with the wind for once in my favour(its been on the nose since I left Lymington) I should make it in good time.Will eat in the club tonight and say my farewells they have made me very welcome and so has the harbour masters team, checking that maybee and I even at 2230 was ok, at the top of the storms, great guys.

so next email should be from weymouth.

colin

... onto another block, very close, but the water was fine,then Im past,
must go north so as not to get sucked into the tide for the race, and out I popped the other side, heading up to chesil beach recognising wyke regis,the wind was picking up and so was my spead, touching 6 knts
I punched in the new route, and west bay was now coming down in the eta, from 2100 down to 1720, this was good, wind still picking up.
Time flew by and so did the coast, I was now ...

... rain but we all had fun. The day we went to Monkey World was a really nice day weather wise and we all enjoyed it. Jody, Marice, Emily, Ryan, and Isabelle gave Dee an Orangutan adoption for his birthday, it was Joly a baby around 4 years old, Dee was thrilled and managed to meet Joly to say hello albeit through the viewing glass but it was fun, and it will be good to keep up with Joly's progress. I am sure we will be going back for another ...

... cockpit to go below or forward at any one time, with wind a severe conditions thats not good but I did,opened the locker to find the fuel tank upside down and fuel in the lazererete.getting my reserve tank filled the main one and eventually got the engine going, and slowly zigg zagged my way to weymouth which I coiuld see on the horizon,once in, I checked the damage,handheld radio not working,dinghy missing,fuel sloshing around in the locker, lines ...

Friday 16th May. In the Police Bar dressed as an Arab, Jim with his suitcase of t-shirts looking like a bedouin Rodney Trotter. Having spent hours at work harrassing my colleagues and anyone else I could think of to buy a passport, here we were, and I was ready for a drink. Luckily, I had 13 to get through to earn my t-shirt. I did it, and helped Jo out with some tomato juice, cognac and pickled eggs along the way. There weren't many in fancy ...

... Handed in my ONP book and sat the test. Was happy to discover I passed 42/50 and I am now able to register as a nurse in the UK! I am so proud with how much I have acomplished in the last month. Treated myself to dinner at Pinochio's Italian, like the one back home in Randwick. Expenses: 85.60GBP lunch, dinner and souvenirs, including hoodie

... This
would then compell us to continue by rail and other public transport
methods. We chose to go on a Great Rail Journey with the company of the
same name. Taking the Glacier Exprees package choice we set off for
Waterloo Station in London, from our local station at Yeovil Junction
early on a late June morning.

This is the story of that trip, its sights and its 'wonders' !!!

... today and by the afternoon all caught the minibuses to the Marine Base in Poole for some live training with the Safety boat. Which I quite loved, being back in a pool, swimming and diving into the water. I was like a fish. Some of the girl though freaked a bit (well Davina) with the training and the jumping thread from the high board with the equipment. But finally everyone managed to do it. And I did it fast so that I could enjoy the swimming pool a bit more ...