Hurtwood Inn Hotel Guildford

Spending the best part of the last 4 weeks in Colombia, I don't consider myself to have much more than scratched the surface.

However, when someone asks me about my trip I can safely say that I have experienced enough to assure them that Colombia is only assumed to be the destination of 'coke heads' or 'risk takers' and that the reality is indeed very different!

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First blog! Still in UK, we go in 9 nine days :-) We hope that we will be able to update the blog as we travel up the east coast of Australia with pics and messages etc to let you know how we're doing. Hope you all have a good 6 weeks in sunny England!! Cat and Tim x

... Arundel Castle for a concert to see The Levellers, whom I am told are a quintessetial English band. We're staying there overnight, with a friend of Deb's before spending tomorrow enjoying beautiful Brighton. I have spent the last two days doing London, which has been an absolute blast! We saw a play ('The Woman in Black'), went to Camden Markets, walked to Oxford Street and Regent Street ...

1 Month and 1 day to go. I'm sat trying to get organised, doing things like setting up this blog and other semi fun stuff. Whilst Kate's searching for our blog ID photo, a task which has degenerated into her trawling through photos of her on various nights out. She's ...

... hubiese estado nada mal de no ser porque constituyó nuestro primer contacto con un dormitory room (dorm). El dorm es la fórmula más barata para dormir en albergues. En esa época, en Londres, una cama y el desayuno a la británica venían a salir por unos 18 euros. Claro, que en aquel entonces al comprar libras no había clausulas en el banco del tipo "firma por tu alma inmortal". Como contraprestación al precio, hay que señalar que se comparte la habitación con entre 6 y ...

... on and started clipping on me panniers in front of a growing crowd of flatmates and associates when i had a hot flush and realised how tired i was from about 5hrs sleep. Dunno if it was the couple of glasses of red wine i had last night or something i ate. I had zero energy and zero enthusiasm. I felt like ****. After announcing this to the small group of bleary eyed on-lookers ...

Having done a virtual tour of Tokyo I am wondering whether we are making a mistake going there first. It seems so expensive . Looking foward to seeing Mt Fuji and travelling on the Bullet Train and the Ghibli Museum sounds like fun. Looking for money saving tips

... after a commuting chat with m'colleague Urszula, of the pros and cons of living inside/outside London, I hatch a plan to try to break the hour to get from the office to my home. The best opportunity is to aim for the 18:00 train from Waterloo - I loiter round the office in order to wait at the office as long as possible to minimise the time on the first critical stage of the journey. The stop-watch starts at the office door and I'm off - a five-minute power-walk from the ...

... dad's approached me. We were talking small talk and then he asked me a very strange question. "Is your son from Canada as well?" What!!! Do I look like I am old enough to have a son in year 9? I don't think so!!! We were able to start our trip around 5pm (2 hours later than we thought we were going to go). I slept for parts since it was getting dark out. It took about 4.5 hours to get there. When we got there everyone was already there so the place was already ...

... 5 yogurts, 4 jars of chilli con carne (with rice), and 4 huge chocolate cookies which I only noticed this morning (having mistaken them for a packet of Lao coffee). I also went into Stef's parent's house (as opposed to his house, where all this stuff is) to find a tray of cherries and some grapes left out. And it is a sin to let cherries go off (especially when they are from Waitrose). Sigh I have done my best. Bear in mind my eating skills are an amalgamation ...