Holiday Inn Reading South

Well just over a week to go before I visit Heathrow's gleaming new terminal to begin my trip to the New World.

Having had an elongated period of time to prepare for this trip I'm still in a sort of half controlled half panicked mode. I know I've got a week to get everything sorted out and I'm getting through stuff at the appropriate pace but still think it will all be a rush at the end.

If all ...

... morning run through the town center and outskirts. Found a lovely stream to jog along through town and past the the cricket pitch. Stumbled upon the Bishop Wolverslys Manor at the end of the run only to discover that we were parked almost next to it.

Back at the van we discovered that we were out of water (something I should of checked before leaving london) and so no Shower was possible for our sweaty bodies :(
Winchester, England, United Kingdom darrenhough74

... May). He was heading up stream to Lechlade before returning to his mooring at Brentford. We had lunch in a pizza/pasta place. Very good. James was collected by Enterprise Car Hire and taken to their Oxford base, from where J drove to Weybridge for a church stewards meeting. He inspected Gabriel's new moorings which have not yet been finished, and met Suzanne our new neighbour and gave her some post which had wrongly been delivered through our letterbox a month ago. Fri 9th October ...

Getting fed up of making lists and trying to decide if I've stocked up on enough Deet! Got all the most important things sorted - Visa, money, had my jabs and got my anti-malarials. I start hyperventilating when I think about how light I'm going to need to pack by backpack....I seriously struggle to do light.

Only two more weeks at work - things are going to be hectic!

... brother on the shores of Lake Constance. I'll only stay there two weeks this time, leaving me more time for another trip which is yet to be decided. Finally, on September 18 I take off for Los Angeles where I'll have four short days to meet up with friends and perhaps squeeze in some time with distant relatives from Seattle before I leave for Sydney on September 22.

... capacity due to an earlier train cancellation. People and luggage were packed everywhere including standing in the aisles. Fortunately, we made our way to the very last car (the "quiet" car.. sniff, sniff) and had no trouble finding seats. It did make for an very interesting trip to the food car (and some close encounters of the strange kind ((there is definitely a story here!!)) which of course was near the front of the train. The ...

... the highway to Reading, which was only about 25 miles, he first of all went past my stop (Reading Calcot), and a passenger had to re-direct him back and around to it, which took another three quarters of an hour. Finally, I got to the car hire place. Again it was hot - too hot to think. They lent me a map of Reading and gave me directions to get onto the A4, heading east, King's Road. Elizabeth had warned me that this may be complicated; however, it was made more ...

... water, lest we should use it all up, and so destroy the Commerce in London! Amid the clank of chains from the cranes, the hiss of steam, the plashing of oars and paddles, and the hundred voices of commercial activity, we passed down the Thames - leaving behind is the dense forest of masts; until the River grew broader and emerged into the open sea. In a few hours more we were rising and falling with the swell of the German Ocean, with the low-lying shores of the ...

... experience to be the minority group within a country, something I had not really thought too hard about before. When I do come back to Australia I will never again stereotype people according to their country of origin as I now know just how annoying this is. I am not particularly upset by the above, in fact it is constant source of enternmaint, and a daily challenge not to laugh in someone's face when they speak (particulary those of the toffy type or the Exeter type ...

... work in Reading this week where I've been wearing in my walking boots for some time now. Back to sunny Manchester, soon I'll be packing my rucksack and on my way. Nervous......, slightly but that just adds to the excitement! First its a language school in Equador, followed by overlanding if your interested you can check out the route Caracas to Quito below. Then on ...