Ibis Cardiff Gate

Well 7 weeks to GO!!!!


June is still busy buying clothes can't keep her out the shops. We are busy trying to set up all the systems we need in place and staff what they need to do in our absence.

Great finding so many people interested in what we will be doing and where we are travelling to.

Just want to get Junes problem sorted at the hospital they are messing us about. Got heavy with them today.

Watch out for the next update.

What an arrival

Having board the easy jet flight we were told that the wind was blowing at 50 MPH in bristol well whats new its bristol we arrive 15 minuites late after a pretty bumpy decent but smooth landing at Bristol airport

Welcome to wind and rain as the door open follow by a gale blowing accross the runway

... She really is a star (as in friend and not movie star) and I have to say is my most reliable friend over in the USA.
Anyway, last night I stayed over at my dear friend Dawn's house, since she was taking me to the airport early this morning. (I slept on the sofa cushions on the living room floor in case you ask). The flight was at 6:45am, and I had to be at Bristol airport for 5am (who travels that early?). So I was up at 4am. Dawn stayed in her pj's since she was only dropping me ...

Well - being in Cardiff was good since it is the closest airport, being on a 2-hr drive to the hotel. But had to wait about an hour for the rental car place to open up.

At least I got to go through the visitor information brochures and grab a bite at Burger King.

... but i dont want to
spend to much money and also want to learn to travel about the Island
on public transport!!



Getting a bit nervous about flying though cuz last time i went on a
plane the turbalance was so bad that some people were sick and crying
and even the cabin crew got scared. Right Adiois Amegos here i come
Gran Canaria **SUNSHINE** :-D

... coming too - this left me wondering why the freaks always find me, and also with the freak in tow. After I'd looked at a few shops, he told me that we were going to the temple. I informed him that I 'don't do' temples but it didn't go down too well - slightly scared for my life I decided just to get on with seeing the temple so he would maybe leave me alone. I had an elaborate plan to leg it whilst he was praying but I mistimed how long praying takes and he reappeared just as I was ...

I was told I had to take 3 days vacation to get my holiday pay so I booked a tour to Wales at the last minute. My oh so lovely managers wanted to know why the hell I wanted to go to Wales cause there's apparently nothing there. Regardless, I thought it was fun enough especially for a weekend trip. Also, it's a whole other country that I hadn't been to. I went on a tour with Haggis. Haggis is a backpacking tour company. For 150 US ...

... re still rather pooped and need another 10 hours or so to crash and recharge. S --------------------------------------- ------- [J] So we're at the cart escalator grocery store with my mom and I see this sign on the front of the cart. I think to myself, "Man, they are serious about their shopping carts here." The sign said: CAUTION - This cart will stop suddenly if taken beyond the red line. First off, I want to know ...

... his first night of his travels in... the Holiday Inn Express next to Cardiff Airport. Though to be fair I was able to go mad and gorge myself using the whole 15 quid meal voucher coutesy of mr KLM. So I soent the first day of my travels in..... Barry Island. Not exactly what I had in mind but quite good fun and also somewhere I had never been before. A mere 24 hours late I did get going, flight to ...

Well I have arrived, seems a bit of a hop skip and a jump, and it did not take me this long, but what with the birth of 2006 time has been a-fleeting. The trip up was very cold, with snow all the way once I got past Sagunto and left the big blue behind. The French have started using speed cameras since ...