Chequers Plaza Hotel Blackpool

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 ...

... to see if I could locate her bag and stuff... and once we found it (thankfully!) we discovered that her camera was missing.. and still is missing (along with the shoe...). We hoped to discover who this camera-shoe-werido thief was, but since Jess can't remember what happened (apparently she even got into a fight!), there is a possibility she left it somewhere herself, or donated it to a homeless person even (one nice black high heel shoe can be counted as ...

We are sitting with a huge pile of travel guides, maps, notebooks, post it notes and general accumulated info in front of us wondering where to start!

The itinery is almost sorted out in terms of countries and cities. We've got the MASTA health brief and the FCO no go areas. We think we've got Visa requirments in hand and the boring (but necessary ...

We headed back into Liverpool today and to an enormous park. It is called Sefton Park. In Sefton Park there is a boating lake, a Victorian glass house (The Palm House), a bronzed statue of Peter Pan, a ...

... 23,000 and the stadium could have held 27,000(?) I think. I got a real buzz out of being one of the 'odd men out' seeing England was playing on their home ground.... and when the roars went up from the English people when they eventually scored - I felt it was more relief than happiness! It was all fairly good natured except when (as John said) the English people booed their own team off at half time. I missed that entirely as I ...

... it used to be glasses of water... im drinking about three cups of tea a day now!

Saturday morning saw an early start to the day... my cousins had arranged for a day of Paintballing in Chorley, so dressed in my joggers and jean, we made our way to some rural paddock-like place for a day of war. And I mean war! It rained periodically, there was mud everywhere, we were slipping- faces smacking the little hills of clayey-soil, or trees, or other ...

Tow truck 2, turns up at 15:29 and we are off again for the next leg of the journey, Stirling Services to Lancaster Services. This journey takes around 4 hours and I have a nice chat with the driver, Jim all the way. We phone ahead and arrange the next tow truck to meet us at Lancaster at 19:15, guess what? Yes, it wasn't there and I am told it won't be there until 20:15 and it finally arrives at 20:30

... and bearable. We are thinking about trying to get over to Turkey soon, either for anzac day, or for a bit longer holiday with some friends we made in Bulgaria. Not much else to tell really, except: start saving your money lads!! Oktoberfest '08 aint that far away!! We hope everyone is well back home, and a big g'day to Michael and Penelope and Maximus Dougie jr! Take care all, and I'll try and get some photos from St Pat's day in Dubli- ****en Blackpool - up soon.

... bandwagon, and I have been on it ever since. Seeing a match at Anfield is one of my life dreams, but for now I had to make do with a stadium tour.

The tour covered all the expected facilities like the museum, the media broadcast area, the change-rooms, the players’ tunnel with its proud “This is Anfield” sign to intimidate visiting teams, and finished up by sitting behind the goal at the Kop end of the ground.

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom troywilkinson

John took me to Blackpool. He may have wanted to show me a UK beach resort. The street along the beach was full of decorations. I took a picture of his profile in the car. It was just a memory of Blackpool. We were on the way from Preston, where we met his old friend, and John talked about the word "love", because people there used "love" meaning "you" very often, when they talk to someone, like "Good morning, love!". That sounded awkward to him.