Marwell Hotel Southampton

... school, and then going to tour round afterwards. Not 100% sure yet but will definately be doing Kerela and then North India.

Thanks to Brother Hasslehoff (Jennys brother) I have this funky blog thing so you all can sleep well at night knowing that my organs havent been sold on the black market for 100 rupees a piece.

Enjoy :)

Nimita

xxx

Today several Trussell Trust staff and volunteers have bruised upper arms from loading hundreds of boxes filled with a reocrd breaking 3800+ Christmas Shoeboxes onto a rather large lorry... The bruises were worth it to see the lorry pull away and begin its 2,450km trip to Bulgaria to transform thousands of Christmases.

We have to say a huge thankyou to all those who donated boxes and to all those hardy souls who braved the cold in ...

Hello,

Basically just testing to see if this works, and also cos Rhys told me to do this now. Also, I wanted Alton to appear as a little dot on our map thing. Anyways, we're off on sunday, looking forward to it, and I'm sure we'll miss you all! Bye for now!

Dave

Booked flight today - Guatemala on Feb 22nd 2010. So to mark the occasion I thought I'd start my travel diary today as well.

Two months to go - and a lot of list-making, planning, shopping, getting vaccinated, freaking out, and bouncing with excitement to do!

... here. In the late afternoon, I was picked up by my first host-mother, Nicole, and taken to my first host-sister's house to see her and her family. She has 2 beautiful young girls now, and it was so nice to meet them and have a lovely afternoon tea of tea and flan. My evening was rounded out nicely with my first Belgian 'friet' (fries) of this stay.

On Monday I began my last 6 days of legal prac in the firm in which my last host-father, Marc, is a partner. It is a medium ...

... place had a real magical feel to it, like no where else on this trip.
2. Istanbul. Great city cobbled streets and great sights.
3. Aleppo. Great city again with big castle in it well worth a visit.
4. Sarayeo. Amazing city with a bad past and some really intersting storys that came out of there.
5. Brasov. Beatiful city right in the heart of Dracular land really nice.
Nicest people

1. Syrians
2. Icelanders
3. Turkish
4. Egyptians
5 ...

... all these silly things people don't think about when they first hand over their grand for the plane ticket but i'm sure as long as it's all sorted out at least a few days before take off that me and sean will do fine and dandy. ok so think that's all i'm going to write tonight seeing as alex told me off the other day for writing 'war and peace' but one last thing to mention relates to this constant struggle to pick the right malaria tablets. ok so story so far goes one nurse ...

... Cha Cha Cha".After a few attempts me and Mary made a quick escape. Attended our first Spanish Lesson in the afternoon but decided not to continue at it was too confusing. Decided to power walk 3 laps round the ship (1 mile) it was very breezy and still force 7-8 but reducing as we headed further south. Both feeling rather queasy, but after a whisky and dry ginger and a Brandy and Rum we were fine. Went down for dinner and still the other ...

... our thoughts move to our family on the other side of the world. Soon it is time to leave and we make our way back to Tony and Dee's house for another fabulous meal, and enjoy some good wine along with some fantastic cheeses that Tony has bought, to bring an end to another great day. Sunday 24th December Christmas Eve has arrived, and we have a very leisurely morning, having a late breakfast and spending time reading the Sunday papers. In the afternoon Gail & I drive ...

... our i-pods with enough music to last 2 weeks...continuously! It soon dawned on us just how many day-to-day things there were to organise / cancel; direct debits, phones, Sky, internet, bank accounts, sell the car etc before we could start to get excited about the reality of leaving. It's turned out to be a fortuitous decision to 'wing-it' around the world after Sydney, as we wouldn't have had time to fit in all the planning. The ...