Lucroft Hotel Shrewsbury

Well I am happy to report that despite postal strikes I have my passport back and a multiple entry visa stamp inside.<br>I was so relieved to have the passport back.I really do not like to be parted from it.<br>All I have to do now is get through the next 4 weeks at work.Oh well I am sure I will manage.<br>Bye for now.

... when we on vacation.<br>Last time I went back to Thailand the flight had arrived in Chiang Mai and taxied to the stand.<br>An elderly gentleman who was getting some luggage from the overhead lockers looked down at me and asked if I was as excited as I looked.<br>When I told him how I was not just visiting CM but that this is the place I call home he stepped to one side and said that I should get off the plane as quickly as possible ...

Hi out there in ether land.<br>Just a bit of an update on what is happening.<br>At the moment I am still working away,getting my money together for my next break.<br>I am due to fly out of england on 6/12/09 and will arrive in bangkok the next day.<br>This brings me to the matter of banking.<br>About 2 weeks ago I went online to start the search for a reasonably cheap flight to Thailand.<br>Normally I would leave england at the end of october or ...

Afte a lazy start to the day we headed out to go see some locals of the New Forest starting first with the donkeys then the ponies, cows, pigs, squirrels, ducks and geese - oh and manybe some sheep too! <br><br>We headed up around Frogham, over the High Corner Inn to the pub at Fritham, the Walter Tyrrel and the Rufus stone, thru Beaulieu and back up ornamental drive before heading home to have dinner at the George! Great day not too rainy and very entertaining!<br>

... by the canal. Further up the canal we watched narrow baots coming through the Wharton lock and picked blackberries while we waited.<br>We visited Tattenhall market for some homemade goodies and stopped on the way home for creak tea at Tarporley! Great day.

... After that we headed west to Shrewsbury and Telford. Getting towards 6 pm we got a bit worried about where we would sleep but found a great pub at Wellington on the outskirts of Telford.<br><br>Computer time is a bit difficult this week but there may be more news in a few days.<br><br>Sorry no pictures this time.

Mon 14th September We were woken at 6am by a boat with an engine that went tunk tunk tunk slowly past us. The result was that we were away from Wolseley Bridge by 6.35am and we had Colwich Lock to ourselves. We had showers at Great Haywood before filling the water tank in preparation for the mission. As James took off his lightweight varifocal glasses one of the arms broke off! Thankfully we keep an old pair on board, and we quickly found these. Then we set off up the Trent and ...

... are you doing?" asked his travelling companion. "We have much to do!"<br><br>The Indian shrugged and remained seated.<br><br>"I am waiting for my soul to catch up with me," he said.<br><br> <br><br>This is how I feel today. My soul is out there somewhere, and it needs time to catch up.

... list. UK solo guy Ben's Brother needs to be checked out too.<br><br>The UK really do music festivals well, it really was great, a real carnival atmosphere; rides, stalls, seedy food everywhere. The weather was actually really good too, always a bonus. Neil and I were NOT prepared for bad weather, we just went along as if it was in Sydney, and when it poured ...

... conclusion that if you're going to go all that way, you may as well take your time and see a bit of the world as well. So the plans evolved and we decided that we would go on a six month break. My work had kindly offered a career break so everything was looking good. Then when we came to look at the timescale, it was clear that to really get the full experience of each country, we would be away for much longer than six ...