Cliff Hotel Harwich

... to get me, I have discovered this unusual patch in the garden, this is very interesting..... shiney ground, with tiny green bits on it.....so me being extremely nosey, take a closer look.......PLOP !!!! meow meow!!!! ........I now know what a "pond" is and it can't be walked on !!!!!!! Just then granny appears....to see me charging back to the back door, with green slime hanging from my ...

Ok so the training is done, the bags are packed and I am adding the final tunes to my mp3 player (thanks to www.wohomusic.net). I am all set for the big trip!!!

My stomach is doing an elephant dance and my head is full of "I hope I haven't forgot this and I hope I haven't forgot that"

Tomorrow morning I will be heading off to Heathrow to begin the 27 hour journey to Lima, where I will ...

Well I'm woken up quite early to the sound of Granny's voice. She has come to collect me and take me back home with her.Granny looks a different colour !!! quite a lot browner, so she and Grandad have been somewhere hot !! So I collect up all my belongings, get back in my travel basket. Brenda is sad to see me go...says I was her favourite. But I told her ...

Well all of a sudden, I am bundled into my travel basket, with a few of my personal things. Now when I go to the vet, I don't have my toys with me !!!! Just a minute....., I remember Granny packing loads of her clothes into suitcases and getting a bit flustered sorting out lots of other things, including that precious pony going off somewhere ...

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Ive sent 187 postcards, read 18 books and shared a room with 153 different people!!!

So some impressive stats from the last 8 months.

And yes, this set of travels might be over, but there are still so many places I want to go, i just need some more money first!!

Spent the day organising and packing with the help of sister Ruth.

Mike at recording studios, Chrissie at work!

Mike and Lucie arrive with Flopsie the rabbit, and the dogs needed to be fed urgently, just in case they thought Flopsie had been brought home for their dinner!

I'll be able to sleep well tonight knowing that the bulk of the work has been done, more than one day before we travel!!!

... heart of London to arrive in the mid-afternoon.

So, with the morning and afternoon to be spent aboard, the question is, what should we do? It isn’t a question of not having enough to do, but rather choosing from all that ...

4am starts are never fun. Last time we caught the North Sea ferry, we had a night boat with a compulsory purchase order on cabins. The maximum berth was four, so we had to get two cabins, which turned out to be several miles apart. That's fine if you have two adults, but not really an option when you are travelling alone with four children. Consequently, I booked the day boat and an early start.

We put the kids to bed at 8pm and followed ourselves a few minutes later. I did ...

... s bike laying on its side on the sidewalk. I turned around as fast as possible and rode back to where the bike was laying. Connie was laying in a fetal position on the other side of the fence which was pushed down on top of her by part of the bike. One of the road crew helped me get the bike off her and stand it up on the sidewalk. Connie was awake, but was in distress and wanted to get her helmet off and turn over, which I didn't want to do ...