Corus Swindon

I think I ended up back in Trowbridge at the best time of the year... lol What with Halloween and Guy Fawkes night!! <br><br>I was a little exhausted when I got back. I think I was happy to be somewhere where I didn't have to literally live out of my suitcase! <br><br>While I was back, I opened a bank account and also applied for my national insurance number so I can work in the UK. It was a fairly short process because I have a British passport! I've applied ...

After being with my uncle for a couple of weeks I headed to the New Forest to stay with friends of mum and dads for a while. They live in a beautiful part of the county, surrounded by a National Forest. Its full of wild horses, pigs, cows and donkeys. They just walk around the forest, across roads etc. So its a bit dangerous.. well i think so anyway.<br><br>I went for lots of bike rides through the forest, some in the forest itself and some along the ...

... a regular basis.<br><br>The weather gods were smiling on us so we had a Sunday roast outdoors before heading back into Ringwood to drop Am off at the bus stop, and then over to Southampton to drop Kel at the airport.<br>Had a fab weekend which will hopefuly be repeated at some point.............<br>

Picked Kel up at Bournemouth airport and we headed to my place to drop her bags off before driving up to Stonehenge and joining the tourists on a cold blustery morning. After freezing our butts off we headed into Salisbury for some lunch to rejouvenate ourselves then toured round Salisbury cathedral.<br><br>Am got in by bus at 8.30pm and then we headed out to checkout somelocal drinking establishments. <br>

So after driving for a bit after leaving Stonehenge and we though it was time to something else. so when we saw a tourist sign to Stourhead we decided to follow it even though we had no idea what it was.<br><br>WOW!! These gardens are lurvely. If you get a chance you gotta come here. <br><br>Now I wish we had followed the earlier sign to Drogo Castle - found out latter that would have been pretty nice too.

... run down them!! <br> In Bath we started at the Huntsmen, very appropriate.. lovely pub except I went to the loo and when I came out I couldn't find my cousin.. she'd gone upstairs out of the way. You could imagine everyone was staring at me quite intently as I walked around and around the pub.. but not upstairs. I think I found her just as she was coming out of the loo! <br> Another pint and then we decided we were hungry so ...

... at my destination. Davina rolled up not too long after I arrived with her friend Nessy in tow. I was happy to see Dav, a familar face was what I really needed. So we were going to go out and have a drink but before that Davina wanted to show me something that goes by the name of the magic roundabout. It's not so much one roundabout as it is 5 interconnecting roundabouts, but it is insane. I never want to see it again. We had a few drinks at some of the local inns and then ...

Well, what can I say .... less than a month to go before we're on that plane. We are seriously counting down now. We've started changing addresses, cancelling accounts and giving notice on services. We've also been doing loads more research so that we know when to do what once arriving in Oz. Everything, like the UK, is dependent on a permanent address over there so we'll be pretty limited initially in terms of arranging our Tax File numbers, drivers ...

... Flight went by quickly. Watched a couple of movies and had a bit of a kip then we were in London. Bit of a problem finding the right baggage carousel for the Virgin flight - had been a bit concerned that my bags hadn't arrived... before I realised I was standing in the wrong place - oops. Picked up the car - after a long hike through ...

... me in the travel was Bath. The Roman bath was worth wandering around with a self-guide gadget, although John didn't enter it because he had been there many times. Royal Crescent was a fascinating architecture, but I was not interested in its inside. So we just sit and relaxed in the yard in front of the building. Then we strolled around the town, walking along a beautiful stream near the Royal Crescent. <br>