Holiday Inn Reading-West

... br><br>We relax with a pre supper wine (or two), a passable curry, and then settle down to the film. The best for me of a fairly poor choice was, appropriately, one about Mandela&#8217;s time on Robben Island and his increasing friendship with his white prison warden. Vanda also can&#8217;t find one to enjoy, instead she get&#8217;s caught listening to the life history of the old dear sitting next to her. They are still at it at the end of my film, so I feign sleep.

<br><br><br>"Whatever can go wrong at the most inopportune moment, will" Sod's law<br><br>All I had to do today was to get the laptop ready for travel: clear out old files to make space for photos, transfer my planning files with all the hotel, travel and other necessary detail; and check in.<br><br>First the laptop email chose ...

"We're leavinghome" Beatles<br><br>Leaving thehouse for three months over winter can be a bit of a worry, and besides, thehouse insurers don&#8217;t like it.<br><br>Fortuitously,Barbara and Steve will be house sitting. Good friend Barbara and new partnerSteve have both recently left failed marriages and are looking to start a newlife together. So the arrangement suitsthem, suits us, and suit our insurers. <br><br>But even so,much has to be done to get the house ...

... Bekey, Mum and Dad and then set off to Birmingham Moor Street for the first stage of my trip, train to Heathrow airport with Kate. Made a few last minute phone calls to Tina (little sis) and Tom and got to the platform with minutes to spare.<br><br>Kate provided a lovely picnic on the train and we spent a couple of hours making crazy plans, gossiping about work and chattering like kids. Between the 2 of us we managed to negotiate the London Tube system with all my bags ...

... to the book, at Mapledurham lock there is a sign that states how many more miles to go till the end, but the track was blocked and we were forced away. The trail actually moved us into Tilehurst. There was no track, just roads and houses !!! Eventually we did come back onto the track beside the Thames but now it was muddy, it was hard going. After a couple of K's we arrived at the Thames Side Promenade. There were fields to our left where ...

... out a living between cracks and crevasses. This video of the ferry trip from Stavanger to Bergen shows some of the scenery from the outer islands on the west coast of Norway. The area is excellent for walking, swimming, boating and fishing. The water can be surprisingly warm - 20C is not unusual - thanks to the Gulf Stream Current and the long summer days. Fishing ...

... hosted by the mayor's 'honourary guides'. It was excellent and really helped us gain an appreciation of Bath's history and an explanation of what we see today. I also would recommend the Bath YMCA for anyone who's travelling on a tight budget - one of the better hostels I have stayed in. I met some other travelling girls - Naomi (a Kiwi from Wellington) and another vet (Jo - from Oz) - whom I incidently had met before once at a ...

Although I have found the National Express bus group to offer find and reliable service (better, for example, than the trains who do not seem to talk to each other from region or, heaven help us, the Tube, whose employees do not seem to know what train goes from which platform), today I had what may be described as the bus ride from hell. While it was hot leaving Norwich and the National Express bus had no air conditioning, in addition, the toilets were plugged. It was a ...

... wine and maybe even play with a few lion cubs. 29 July 2006 - 16 August 2006 : Tanzania and Kenya Our trip concludes with our one and only tour. We spend 16 days doing the following: * Hands on work at a local school * Visit to the Born Free Foundation * Safari in Lake Nakuru (excellent for rhino) * Kenyan colonial farm visit * Camping wild in the Serengeti * Hot air balloon flight over the Serengeti * Jeep safari and wild camp in Ngorongoro ...

... I believe. The humanities lessons have mixed ability groups. As far as administrative structure, it is quite a bit different here. There is a Head Teacher (like a Principal) and Duputy Heads (like VPs) and Assistant Heads (3) who have various tasks assigned to them, and then there are Heads of House for each of the three houses at Cox Green. At Cox Green, all of these administrators also teach, although obviously not the same timetable as a full time ...