Days Inn Basingstoke East Fleet

We're home and boy is it cold. Some reflections on Cambodia: It's a pretty country. The people are very friendly and cheerful. It has a varied history (both great and dire). It will be a sucessful tourist venue - go soon before it ruins itself in the process. We were both pleasantly surprised by Cambodia. And Sarah really liked the tuktuks. And some thoughts on the whole thing: It rains in SE Asia, quite a lot. It can also be very hot and very, very humid. The traffic is ...

... for a long lunch and coffee. Then we start the 20 hour journey that will end when we return home. A short flight takes us to Bangkok where there's 4 hours to kill before a 0010 departure to Heathrow. 13 hours later (or 6 hours later once our clocks have been adjusted) and we're home.

... the Travellers Cheque Card worked well). Entertainment: Apple iPods (music, audiobooks, films & photo back-up). Phones: Motorola and Vodafone. Audiobooks provided by www.audible.co.uk. Cameras by Canon (Sureshot A620 & EOS 400D). Website by Travelpod (URL: www.travelpod.com/members/shaneandsarah ). OK, being a trifle more serious... Firstly, we were lucky. With the weather, it messed up a few things but nothing serious. With the ...

Well, well...... Don't really know what can be said, which is gonna make for some good reading I'm sure lol Its a celebration *****es.... Its odd i thought that tonight I would feel pretty pumped, which I do but I just kinda feel quite numb mostly. I think that thinking about this trip so much has just put me into a strange state, whereby now it feels ...

Spending a week with Lesley in Sunbury. Just a suburb of London. Saw most of the family on Sunday and had a great time. Bobbo and I took 2 days and went to London. Checked out Westminster Abbey, Tower of London, and the HMS Belfast (second world war battleship). We will add pics of the last 3 adventures in a day or two. We are off to Bruges, Belgium.

... Brian wants to see the Golden Hinde, an old British sailing ship which he made a model of when he was a boy. It's not far away so we make our way along the Thames to find it and when we get there they were doing a play on it of "The Pirates of Penzance"! Wow, one of my all time favorites. So I stand up on the wrought iron fence to watch and Brian after taking some photos knows what I'm like so he leaves me glued to the fence and goes to ...

Well I've spent a couple of weeks in Cambridge and a week in London - very enjoyable. London is such a green city and it was very nice to spend time there staying with some of my relatives. After Simba arrived the weather in Cambridge took a turn for the worse so we didn't see much. We did go to a service at Kings College Chapel on her first morning here which was enjoyable. On Tuesday the 9th we took the train down to London (£25.10 return) and ...

... at night having been reduced to eating KFC for dinner, having spent 3 hours being turned down by snooty hotels, we were grateful for the soft beds, the warm room, the working telly and the fabulous service from our wonderfully chatty and interesting host. I would not hesitate to recommend the Skylark to any weary traveler - even if the décor ranges from Victorian to modern IKEA, it is clean, safe and oh so friendly. Rating 8/10. Giggle factor 10/10.

... about it all the last few weeks as it is quite daunting, particularly leaving everyone for a year. Having said that I know it will fly by and I will regret it if we don't do it - after all its only a year not a lifetime. Since the travel show have focused a lot more on what we are going to be doing and seeing and am getting really excited now despite the odd blip when saying goodbye to people. It doesn't seem entirely real yet and probably won't until we get on ...

I've figured out that actually living in England for a while with your family is entirely different than just visiting and staying in a hotel. 1) it's way more fun - you get carted around and shown cool backroads and tiny country pub's (Uncle Pete knows his way around England by where the pubs are! haha) 2) they give you tips on what places you really cannot go by train. *cough* Stonehenge *cough* 3) they are close enough to ...