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Pre-Trip
I am so excited about going to Australia and becoming a teenager. It shall be great. Santa will come and he will give me lots of present, I hope! I've got one more day of school left and then we are driving to Manchester to get our flight at 2pm on Thursday. I think the flight is going to really bad because its 24 hours long. What am I going to do? I hope there will be a lot of movies and nice food. ...
Planning everything
... go somewhere just because it's pre booked. We have a few books on brazil and South America so I think we will be relying on them a lot while we are there. I have also got a very fitting travel journal to write everything so as I can put it on the blog later. I have created this so as family and friends can keep up with our progress and we can remember everything too. The plan so far is once ...
Leaving Haggis Land!
... chat. He even explained the inflight entertainment which was otherwise a complete and utter mystery to me! Definite highlights of the flight were the views, especially flying over Baghdad and Basra and even Kuwait, even though it was dark, it was still possible to see the cities all lit up below. The whole flight was surreal, I felt like I was watching myself in a film. Coming down into Dubai was amazing, we could even see the desert and swimming pools below...!
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Scotland, Amazing Race Style
... dolphins. (Of course there were the mandatory snatches of Gilligan's Island sung.) The rain had slackened to a drizzle by then and although there was an interior cabin, we all stayed outside on the deck and on the benches there for the duration. We rode out into the river and towards the sea. There was some wildlife, mostly birds and a seal or two, but no dolphins...darn.
Once we docked, we went back to get our disks, which were, in ...
Day 31 - Following the Clyde & things turn nasty
... why it got its name, but this small river feeding the Clyde lay on a path which pit workers had to cross daily to work the local coal mines, the bridge forever being known as 'The Miners Bridge'. It is impossible when reading these few facts on our information sheet about this bridge not to wonder at the wretched conditions of these men who worked so hard so many years ago to help create the great Glasgow we have experienced these past few days.
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