Park Inn Sheffield

... been great helping out with hotels and cars. Last week was the big planning meeting which to eveyone,s surprise went really well and we have now booked hotels in Cape Town, Misna and a 3 day safari. We travel on friday 13th November and I have just booked our Heathrow airport Parking
More next week

The plans for our trip started after we had Sold our house










We moved into a rented house in August and will be here until just before Christmas.











We have been house hunting in North Yorkshire ...

... a couple of DVD's that we'd bought and had an early ish night cause it was going to be a rather long drive & ferry crossing.

I forgot to mention I spent about 2 hours trying to fix the leaking kitchen water pipe with no luck at all. I gave up and just popped a stop end on it and left it like that! I don't think it's the end of the world not having hot water in the kitchen!

Short but sweet entry!

Bye

Nearing the end of our 2 weeks of driving around the UK. Our little Vauxhall Corsa is holding up well after more than 2,500 miles total since we got to England a few weeks back. We've continued to be very lucky and had lovely weather which has made the best of the beautiful scenery we have seen. We also continued to expand our ...

... yesterday it reminded us of the hilly streets of San Francisco. The Lake District was beautiful today and we had a full day of touring. Almost every day we leave our accommodations by 9:00 AM and don’t get to the next location until 5:30 or 6:00 PM. They are long full days of sight seeing and Gordon has been wonderful to us. He usually drops us off and we get settled ...

... in general - ugh
Near death experience on flight from Krabi to Kuala Lumpur

Stats

Flights taken – 10 (including from Bangkok to London via Delhi)
Bus journeys - 6
Train journeys - 1
Countries visited - 7
Towns / cities stayed at - 17
Number of times Mark shaved - 1
Golf courses played at - 4
Number of t-shirts bought - 12

Until next time

M & N

Charlotte came to stay for a few days. She requested we drive up the hill and take some photos. Joan wanted to join us for this event so after detour to farm shop we drove to Holme Moss (a couple of miles) had a walk and took these photos. Enjoy a taste of West Yorkshire!

... and i was more than a little pleased to be in the actual room where where william booth was born! wow! there was actually something rather surreal about that actually, in all seriousness. we had the museum to ourselves and i had finished with the previous room quickly and so was in this room alone for a bit, and i was just thinking "wow. i am standing alone in the very room that william booth, the ...

... liked it. Neither did we have to stay in a country, any longer than we wanted to. So just to re-cap, it was: London to Boston - LA to Rarotonga - Rarotonga to Fiji - Fiji to Auckland (NZ) - Christchurch to Sydney - Sydney to Singapore - Bangkok to Singapore - Singapore to Trivandrum (India) - Delhi to London! Phew! Well... All that for the bargain price of £1000 each. Those flight destinations had to be more or less stuck to (unless you paid a fee), but ...

Taggie and I liked the look of Glasgow so much we drove through it twice - once through it on the wrong way to Carlisle, and once when we figured out we were going the wrong way and turned around. (We won't talk about us turning around in Stewartown and ending up going in exactly the same wrong direction we'd been going in.)