Express By Holiday Inn Burton-Upon-Trent Burton upon Trent

... further south to start the journey in the light of the advancing winter - but as a man once said, "Go big, or Go home!" (I make no judgement as to whether he was a wise man). Starting in Amsterdam is more memorable and allows me to pass through three more countries (Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) for the sake of an additional day or two on the road.<br><br>The countdown is at 15 days and 21 hours...

... A new form of fly away hair mine was fly everywhere.<br>I am dreaming of sitting on my parents decking in the morning sunshine eating a whole fresh mango (juice dripping type - yum) for breakfast reading the morning paper (prob be the Geelong Addy as thats Dad's usual, which I don't luv but at least its not footy season so I won't have to read just about the Cats). Bring it on I say.<br><br>

... t be bothered with the shopping crowds. Having to fight your way through the likes of Primark (hell on earth in terms for shopping and I'm a shop-a-holic so it must be bad) or on the escalators in the Bull Ring just didn't appeal today. So I saved my pennies for a rainy day - that will probably be tomorrow.<br>Ok get some sleep - with 10 days to go I need to keep the battery charged. More to follow in the next few days .......<br>

... for a few days; thanks Steve. :-)<br><br>This week will consist mainly of waiting for my next vaccination and another set of goodbye drinks but the process of refining the contents of the pack is practically neverending. Tonight i started filling plastic baggies with spices and wondering idly whether or not they will get me arrested at customs... might have to reconsider the larder options.<br>

Finally worked out my route.<br><br>Fly to Armenia, travel through Georgia to Turkey and fly from Istanbul to Mumbai. Work my way across to Calcutta and fly to Bangkok. Through Thailand and Cambodia to Vietnam, then onto China.<br><br>I am setting off early September 2010 and aim to be in China early December, maybe.<br><br>And then I have to get back...

... transportation IC card, for future use in the subway is not a problem. <br> The reason why so sure, because the current public transportation IC card has a strong capacity for expansion. "As long as connected with the subway ticketing system, you can achieve the brush IC card, which is no technical problem." Qiuen Jun also said that the safety of public transportation IC card is also very strong anti-forgery features, like ...

OMG, I finally finished work on the 20th October and have been off now for almost 2 weeks. Lady of leisure you say ... pfff, no chance, far too much to organise, but on a positive note I have my flights booked, so I am definitely off on the 15th Nov!<br><br>So much more to sort out, so much more bureaucracy to live through, but not for much ...

... we have done on this blog about this and that, things finally started to go our way. <br>We soon bought a rocket of a car in the form of a 1997 2 door Ford Fiesta, which doesn't quite shine as much as I would like but still gets us from A to B and back again. Although ashamedly our first stop was Macdonalds drive-thru, our first real trip in the car was to move house. <br>Our new house is a lovely 1 bedroom flat on the top of a 3 story complex ...

Afte a lazy start to the day we headed out to go see some locals of the New Forest starting first with the donkeys then the ponies, cows, pigs, squirrels, ducks and geese - oh and manybe some sheep too! <br><br>We headed up around Frogham, over the High Corner Inn to the pub at Fritham, the Walter Tyrrel and the Rufus stone, thru Beaulieu and back up ornamental drive before heading home to have dinner at the George! Great day not too rainy and very entertaining!<br>

... to get myself a job! Thanks for the support, hope you all enjoyed the Blog as much as I've enjoyed writing it. Until next time I pack my bags...Will x. NB. Special thanks should really go out to my 'wonderful' family for all their support - they have been good! You should have seen their faces when I landed, I may aswell have been wrapped up.