Moffat Lodge

Well I was all set to leave, my brother arrived to pick me up and told me that my father had passed away that morning. Devastating news. Rang Real Gap straight away and they were really good about everything. Have postponed trip until after the funeral which is this Friday.

Will update when I have details of my flights and my new itinerary.

... my life and one that I'm embracing with open arms, after the past couple of years I totally feel it's the right thing to do and in my heart of hearts I know it is. I'm on the path of my destiny now - not sure what the future has in store, but it's all good.

I will write again when I arrive in south east asia.

... in between times. Eventually about 30 mins before due to leave the board changed from 'waiting' to 'last call'. Nothing in between and it was a long way to the gate so a lot of middle aged women were panicking - and hadn't quite got it that the flight doesn't leave without lots of announcements that your luggage will be offloaded if you haven't got to the gate.

Once on, I was lucky enough to be asked to move into an empty emergency ...

we arrived at Heathrow at about 5am which was bloody early even for us plus it was cold. It was pretty uneventful and delivered us safely to Doha.

We stayed in Doha airport for around 3.5 hours, bought some cheap fags (which were rubbish) the highlight being, there was a smoking room. A proper Opium den ...

A two day conference in Peebles (Scottish Borders) encompassing muchos quality food, and my birthday on the Thursday. Add to that a plush room on the first floor overlooking the Moorfoot Hills... the view as the sun was rising, and the view as the sun ...

... uj francia szobatarsam, es Lillaval begyalogoltunkn Blairgowrie-ba, hogy turazzunk egy kicsit, bevasaroljunk a Tescoban, es beuljunk valahova kavezni...reszemrol palacsintazni.. Odafele feluton fel is vett Ann, Graham felesege minket, es kocsival bevitt a varosba. Aztan a Sophia alatal javasolt kavezo nem volt nyitva, ugyhogy mentunk az altalam javasolt Cargill`s-ba, ahol a palacsintat, forrocsokit hirdettek- ehelyett csak kakao, es amerikai palacsinta volt maple sziruppal ...

... Peti, hogy mi mit jelent, mit kell nezni, milyen a jo parameter (GHerz, MByte, GB, stb), es vettem a Tescoban egy kircso gepet :) Emachines, termeszetesen folyamatos telefonos konzultacioban Petivel.Meg vettem dugo atalakitokat is, mert persze az sem volt, meg a telefonom aksijaval is sporoltam, meg egy csomo gyumolcsot, mert azt nem kapunk ebed-vacsira...Ja es, egy bicikli boltban talaltam ket hasznalt biciklit (merthogy persze kb. nincs busz ...

So today we left Dubai and headed to the UK. The flight wasn't too bad - I watched The Proposal and Angels and Demons. The Proposal was actually pretty funny so people were giving me strange looks as I giggled. Then listened to some Seinfeld comedy to pass the rest of the time.

Heathrow was the usual nightmare, waiting in line for ages and then walking the 10 miles to the tube stations but the hotel was luckily close to Russell ...

... to drive past a nasty motor cycle accident which was almost certainly a fatal one. The later were here for the Appleby Fair, when they get together to sell, buy and ride Horses, have a few fights to settle things and generally scare the **** out of middle England. We went past tons of beautiful horse drawn caravans, and the mood was one of fun, not intimidating in any way.
Gretna Green, Scotland, United Kingdom darrenstravels

... we were from and were we familiar with the area? We allowed that we were familiar with area and our chart was up to date. The other boat asked us if he could follow and we of course said no problem. We provided some helpful guidance and prevented another run aground. We sailed across the Albermarle in a freshening north easterly together, dodging an awful lot of crab pots and when we got to the North River the other boat again became keen to follow us into Broad Creek ...