Green Park Hotel Liverpool

Hey Everyone... if you're reading this then it means we remembered to hand out the log on details for our blog and you're missing us already, enough to have bothered to log on before we're even left Manchester! ; )<br><br>As most of you are aware today, Tuesday 1st December, at 6:45pm Paul and I will embark on our 'BIG ADEVENTURE' with a BA flight to Heathrow, London!<br ...

After 3 years of saving we are finally set to go travelling to Eastern and Southern Africa. We will arrive in Uganda and head to Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Victoria Falls and possible Madagascar before flying back in June 2010.

... Lauren, to a little place just south of Manchester called Bramhall. We started our weekend of with a traffic jam on the M60 which took us nearly 2 hours to get through. I will say it- I have never seen traffic jams like this in my life. I- 96 in rush hour barely compares. It is absolute madness. Two weeks ago me and her decided to take the bus to town and get some shopping done, a trip that usually takes just under 15 minutes, we ...

Well I am happy to report that despite postal strikes I have my passport back and a multiple entry visa stamp inside.<br>I was so relieved to have the passport back.I really do not like to be parted from it.<br>All I have to do now is get through the next 4 weeks at work.Oh well I am sure I will manage.<br>Bye for now.

... control, security checks, a 'secure' bus ride from Terminal 3 to Terminal 1, more security checks... until we were spat out where BMI had left us waiting for our Air NZ flights a month ago. We swapped our Virgin-issued boarding cards for BMI-issued ones at the transfer desk and it wasn't long before we were down at gate 8, which seems to consist of multiple actual gates leading to various BMI aircraft. About 30 mins from flying ...

... in preparation for the arrival of our venturers on 10th October. <br><br>(If you want to know more about it you can find out more about Raleigh by looking on their website...<br>http://www.raleighinterna tional.org/ !)<br><br><br>So .... My Expedition<br><br>.... I was awarded a graduate bursary (a new scheme launched in August 2009 for recent graduates) I only found out at the end of August so I just had a few weeks to raise ...

... it. I had a great time. The only sad part was that they didn't have any small souvenirs that I could put in my journal (we have been collecting business cards and stickers). They had a lot of lovely art there in so many forms. It was by donation to get in... and the recommended donation was £3. The Maritime Museum - This is right on the Docks as I suppose it should be. It was actually not that great to tell you the truth. There was a bit on Customs and that was pretty good ...

... lov? How can I help lov? There you go lov. Very cute. The next day was National Beatles' Day so we headed into town, me wearing Ray's Beatles wig that he had bought the day before but didn't want to wear. We expected to find the whole town going crazy, but there wasn't actually much on to our disappointment. There were a few groups of young guys busking to Beatles' covers, the front page of the local paper, The Liverpool Echo, was devoted to the Fab Four ...

... of my musical hereos- The Beatles. The train ride was quite interesting as I was befriended by a guy who claimed to have met John Lennon and to be a musician. He looked like he hadn't slept in two days and was coming off a heavy night of drinking. He kept insisting that he ...

... sat in the managers areas and then moved into the legendary Kop end of the ground. The Kop used to be the standing area of the group where spectators were packed into a small area. During the game that we watched - this was the end of the ground that moved a large Liverpool Football Club flag over the heads of the spectators to the sound of "Never Walk Alone' - it was spine tingling! and then ...