Days Hotel Manchester

I have never written a blog before, but thought it would be useful to make some notes to help me remember organising my florida trip along with a place for keeping track of my notes. Although the main task of booking the trip has been complete (sometime last September) I still have to make sure that it doesn't turn into a tacky 2 week Walt Disne...

Just a few photos from our rather cold trip to the Peak District, which was a winter wonderland of snow. When the sunlight caught the right angle of the snow on the ground and on the trees it sparkled like tiny diamonds, so beautiful. Ate some gorgeous homemade food in the tearooms - yum!!

So a tad over 3 weeks to go now. I really dont know if I have missed anything in all my preparations of late.

I have pulled out the old faithful backpack and am repeatedly deciding what to take / not to take. First few nights accomodation are all taken care in a few early destinations, I am doing that to slowly ease myself out of the comf...

It's about time myself and the sheep went down under to see my father, so the tickets are now BOOKED via Quantas! First stage is out of the way, planning can now commence.

So much stuff that we want to do; I want to dive on the Great Barrier Reef and buy a new camera in Hong Kong, Dave wants to do a Sydney harbour bridge walk and not get ...

Well here it is, day one of the next 9 months of madness!!...im sure....my wicked mates came to wish me a farewell. A teary eyed claire came before school for a brew and blubber...cheers mate u know how much ill miss you. Then lu took me to the airport where gemma and baby evie were there to wave me off. Lu your a star for that, we, or should I ...

Merry Christmas

Greetings from Manchester!

Had many responses to Geoff's new e-mail notification so thought we would send a message to update our 4 months since leaving home.

The best way of following our lives as tourists is on our "Travel Pod" which we set up for a diary for ourselves. It’s turning out to be a really...

1. Day 1 (5/9/09)
   
   
   Manchester, England, United Kingdom deacnightowl88

Transit at Dubai So much that I heard about Dubai International Airport, it turns out to be a disappointment. It was very crowded and chaotic. I arrived at around 6:30am, and right out of the plane I was stuck at the security check point. A huge flock of confused passengers were just trying to get to their connecting flights, but all were forced...

Well so much has happened since I left for Manchester. I dont even know where to start. Lets see.... 25 march I walked from Emily's place to Liverpool city centre and into the main train station. I bought a ticket to Manchester and an return open ticket so that I could return on any day I chose to and at any time, on any train. It was amazingly ...

A slightly stressful last 10 miles of the journey, which took about as long as the rest put together... but we were still at the airport in plenty of time, as the day's chauffeur was a former traffic copper (thanks Den). We just about had time for a brew before boarding our plane, which actually involved crossing tarmac (somehow, that's so much ...