Ibis Reading Centre

... 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.

... to work, then during the day we kept losing broadband connection. With an over booked plane it was imperative I checked in as soon after 7.20pm as possible so as I could to preserve our precious seats. Eventually after fraught nerves but good assistance from son Stephen I got the job done.<br><br>Off to bed with some relief.

... 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 ...

... Reading festival was being set up and over the river were some massive houses. Trust me, the boatsheds were bigger than our flat !!! <br><br>Thirty minutes later, we were in Reading and the end of day Seven, the halfway mark, so we jumped on a train and went back to Cholsey and drove home.<br><br>And Finally<br><br>Total Kilometres so far - 171.6<br><br>Bridges Seen - 8<br><br>Bridges Total - 108<br><br>Locks Seen - 3<br><br>Locks Total - 21

... can fish for varieties such as cod, mackerel, plaice or pollack. Fishing is a good way to get to know the locals, most of who speak or understand English. I'll be there in time for the midsummer night revels on the eve of June 23. Sankthans or the feast of St John's is one of those pagan festivals which were adopted by the church and given a Christian ...

... in Tamworth... We went out for a pub dinner (sunday roast) then took a 'Bizarre Bath' comedy walking tour of the town in the rain... Completely different from the first, this one was hardly historical but more about a stroll about Bath interrupted by random bursts of comedy acts (including the escaping 'Houdini (stuffed) rabbit' who made a miraculous escape after being chained, bagged and thrown into the river Avon...) It was a ...

Sorry for not updating more...I get internet at work so I can check e-mails there but I don't want to make entries there in case they monitor usage. I left Canada just over two months ago now. On the one hand that doesn't seem so long ago but travelling through Ireland seems like it happened ages ago. I've been in London for about 6 weeks now. Starting to really feel like I live here. Especially when I commute home on the tube at night. I've ...

... hour trip to Stanstead. Then there was no connecting bus driver. We left an hour late with the new driver complaining she was not the correct driver. We were crammed in like sardines. It was hellishly hot and took another 2 hours to get to Heathrow which made us (6 of us) late for our connecting bus to Reading. The driver claimed she did not know the phone number to ask them to hold the bus for us. We got in to Reading and it was instant pandemonium; people rushing ...

... Visit to an African snake park * Camel trip and traditional Masai village visit * Camping overnight under Mount Kilimanjaro * 2 nights on idyllic Indian Ocean beaches * 2 nights in Zanzibar 16 August 2006 Nairobi - Johannesburg - London Heathrow (Arrives the next day) After 206 days travelling around the world, we arrive back at home ready to show you the several million pictures and videos we've taken. I hope you're already excited! I know I am.

... ticket agents we saw was selling the tickets for 62 quid! That was bloody expensive! so we went directly to the theatre to enquire about the tickets. Here it was only 25 quid for a middle tier seat, so aunty Prema booked 3 tickets for Monday night's performance. Gee!! I'm gona watch 2 top class musicals in West End for 2 consecutive days! Well, what can I say... I'm extremely elated as I take a giant leap towards achieving my goal of becoming part of an aristocracy! As we were ...