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Travel Blogs from Balmaha
Pre-Trip
I am so excited about going to Australia and becoming a teenager. It shall be great. Santa will come and he will give me lots of present, I hope! I've got one more day of school left and then we are driving to Manchester to get our flight at 2pm on Thursday. I think the flight is going to really bad because its 24 hours long. What am I going to do? I hope there will be a lot of movies and nice food. ...
Planning everything
... out in the Caribbean for a bit to fly to north brazil and go to the amazon first then travel down the coast to Salvador then inland to Brasilia and finally end up in the big bold Rio! Mark is flying to the Caribbean in the next week so we really need to get a proper backpack and some good walking shoes ASAP, shame I know nothing about things like that. Off to do some more research in to what we ...
Leaving Haggis Land!
... onto presumably relatives for dear life.
I'm sure people must have been thinking I was a tad deranged as I skipped merrily towards the departure gate with a huge grin on my face! Ironically, the sun was out in Glasgow for once, I figured in mockery for me flying out. But even the blue skies couldn't put a smile on the faces of those in the Departure lounge. The rows of sombre faces were more reminiscent of mourners at a funeral than a lucky bunch ...
Day 1 - Milngavie to Balmaha (19.8 miles)
... with dog walkers, all of which said hello and some even stooped for a chat. I even asked if I could "borrow" one old guys Collie to keep me company on the WHW, he just laughed but I was serious! Just 4 miles in to the walk and out of Glasgow I got my first view of what the day had ahead of me. I had to take a picture and send it over to Pippa at work, just so she could see what I was seeing and also to make her a little envious (sorry Pip!) x At the 9 mile mark I came across ...
Venturing out into the Trossachs
September 30, 2010 - This morning we decided that it was time for a road trip into the Trossachs. Our original plan for this trip was to see all that the UK had to offer, but we have found that those plans were very ambitious and we needed to just relax more than cramming everything in. The night before, we tried to figure out exactly where we would end up without it being a long car ride for the kids and where we thought we would go is not where ...