Days Hotel Manchester

... br>All being well we'll have managed to cram our worldly possessions into a combined 155 litres of rucksack without too many arguments over whether Clarins Face Products are classed as "essential" and also with a bit of luck our baggage will have made it's way onto the same aeroplane as us : ) and we'll be winging our way to London, next stop Bangkok! <br><br>A&amp;Px<br>

Last brief entry, just to say we are safely back home, arriving yesterday with Sue picking us up at Manchester airport.<br><br>We've had a fantastic trip - very memorable! Thank you for following our trip. Hope it hasn't been boring, certainly hasn't for us.

... the CHANGE. I don't particularly like change, but I like to take myself out of my comfort zone sometimes and see what I can handle. Keep challenging myself.<br><br>Keeping this short, otherwise it will get VERY boring. More time for fun stories and escapades then! xox

<br>Ah, I have been falling behind in my updates. My weeks have been a little busy as of late due to one test, the discovery of Farmville, never returning to netball, and the true experience of English culture in the form of various bar crawls. I&#8217;m a very busy girl&#8230;<br><br>I can&#8217;t remember where I last left off and due to the lack of wireless Internet cannot access the update in my kitchen. I suppose I&#8217;ll ...

... and sound back at good old cold, wet, dark Ringway. Did I say 'good old'? Slip of the tongue! We're finally back on terra firma after the last flight. By my calculations we've flown something like 24,000 miles on this circumavigation. Would I do it again? To be honest with you, I'd have quite happily hopped straight on board the Air NZ 747 bound for Los Angeles and flown back the other way! The bank manager wouldn't have liked it though. <br>

... short peak periods. Most things strat up a little later in the morning than we are used to.<br><br>Roads are hard to naviagte due to the number and direction system but we are getting the hang of that.<br><br>Finacially things are working out OK. Costs vary from being expensive in comparison to Australia but we need to learn not to compare anymore an try to think in pounds and not dollars.

... to do something special, and to give something back during this year. I started to save up, not really knowing where I would be going or what I would be doing, but knowing I would probably need to take unpaid leave from work, and would have to cover all my travel and living costs. Last year I started to look for a project somewhere that I could work with, and at this point my son Sam asked if he could come with me. Initially I said no, as it was not a holiday, and he ...

... nice evening chatting with each other. All in all, we hadn`t seen each other since August of 2007! In the next morning Clare`s (Pinky is actually Clare`s camp name) friend Charlie came to visit us and we went for a walk with the girls dogs - Ellie and Elfie. Then Clare drove us to Manchester telling us on the way there that she always gets lost in there. OK. We went to the Chinatown, wandered around ...

... grown up things like a house to live in and a job to get. Despite being in one of the places I knew best and used to feel most at home, I felt very alone. However when I got to Tom and Rhian's and they welcomed me in with a nice cup of tea I felt much better. Rhian confirmed in her gorgeous Welsh lilt that I did indeed look like a monster. There was only one thing for it: fish and chips. We couldn't manage the deep fried mars bar. Charlotte's clutch ...

Well, after weeks and weeks of planning, trying to coordinate plans with Tammy who was constantly on the move, it was late afternoon, Thursday, July 26th and I was boarding a Continental flight to Newark, the first of two connections to take me to Croatia.. All the days leading up to this point seemed a bit stressful, getting prepared, talking frequently with Tammy and acquiring plus packing supplies that she requested as well as getting my own. It was funny, I was ...