Jurys Inn Brighton

How does Jade feel? "Like we're going on holiday for a year", "This tea is really nice" "Hoping to see a naked man running through the airport with a banana"<br><br>How does Alice feel? "Gotta make the most of everything whilst we are away", "Can't wait for the sweating", "I ...

Two days left - still can't really believe we're going. Excited and also a bit nervous - how will we get from place to place especially around Cambodia and China?<br><br>Working our way through our final to-do list and just hoping not to have any last minute panics!!<br><br>Suppose it won't sink in until we're on the plane:)<br><br>Viv xx

Camping in Barnes Green was good fun. We set out for the night to test the new tent, awning and cooking gear. It was very cold and we eneded up caught in a thunder storm, but I'm glad to report the tent was suberb. It was dry inside and our sleeping bags also did the job. We were nice and snug inside and we had a big fry up for breakfast, so all in all a success! <br><br>We got our carnet yesterday, so we're pretty much ready to go! Roll on December 24th!

Well, what can we say! What a send off from the villagefolk at Lindfield. It was coincidentally Guy Fawkes night which is also a pretty big deal in England.<br>A grand parade of burning torches and witches led up to a bonfire and fireworks extrordinaire.<br>To top it off, a display of Morris dancing by the local chaps outside the White Lion. Wow, the locals really love us. Tomorrow we depart for Queensland.

... of Catholicism (1553-1558) 17 Protestant Lewes men were put into barrels and burnt to death on the high street. <br><br>Then, of course, there was the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 - from which the anniversary of bonfire night comes &#8211; a Catholic conspiracy of such magnitude that parallels can be drawn with it and 9/11.<br><br>Smoldering beneath Lewes&#8217;s deceptively normal exterior is a part of England&#8217;s history, a part of England&#8217;s identity, long since consigned to dusty ...

... last three months with my father in Cornwall, and particularly at the hospice where he was cared for in the last weeks of his life. We shall all miss you Paul, but know that wherever you are now, you will be amongst friends. And I am sure you will be watching my work in India at the new hospital where we intend to commemorate you with a wing or ward or whatever.

... so we were both quite zombied. We went for a walk to London Road to get me a SIM card and us some dinner and alcohol. The plan was to get completely hammered to help us sleep, then to wake up at 11pm in time to go out to a beach party. And so we did. The beach party was fantastic. There were 4 sound systems and about 700 people and we danced the night away before heading off to a house party at 5am. Since then I've been ...

... out that she only paid 8p for the bus ride (which costs a quid) and ended up picking a fight with the driver in order to get off the bus. Her final quote of the night was "You can suck both my *****!" before scurrying off of the not even completely stopped bus and into the night. The whole thing was rather odd. Tuesday-extremely uneventful for the most part. Except I signed up for about 10 societies and found a farmers market which pretty ...

... was hidden from Western eyes. But it is unfair to blame the failings of these years solely at the feet of communism. Part of the failing I believe is that the place is just too damn big to manage properly. Rampant Capitalism, as evident in the unchanged living standards, is clearly not the magic bullet for Russia's problems. Is it perhaps the only country in the world with the problem of too much land? Thoughts while riding the bike, as you can tell, have become rather ...

... planner extraordinaire and a man that sat with my father for around 100,000 miles in a Jeep surveying long distance rally routes around the world - started discussing the difficulties one can expect when going through Iran and Pakistan. Given his route planning background in far flung places, it usually pays to listen when Mike speaks. But I started going into a haze either when he was talking about the quality of the fittings in his Iranian jail cell, or at ...