Premier Inn Mansfield (Tibshelf)

Hello everyone!

First of all I would like to say a very very big thank you to everyone at Colsterworth School for my card! I loved the book with all my goodbye messages. I will be looking after Frederick and making sure he has a good time with me ...

ARGH!

My brain can't actually handle the magnitude of this whole trip! Keep having flashes of reality that I'm literally going to be on the other side of the world in about 30ish hours! That aside I think I'm quite excited; tho sitting around waiting for time to pass and for me to be sat on the plane isn't really conducive to a thrilling environment!

I'm so glad that I ...

... 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

... we are probaly too late to get anything sorted before we go away.










We have anther house hunting weekend planned for Oct 17/18 in Northumberland, but this will just be a fact finding trip. We don't expect to complete a Purchase

... 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

... really good of them. If felt good to be back in England for now....but I imagine that will wear off in a few hours!! Oh, and by the way.....it was raining!!!! I probably wont write too much over the next week whilst I am back in England, maybe just to say where we have been on nights out. I will then recontinue the main part of the blog when we get to Malta on the 7th.

... is then he idea : June/July 2008 - China July 2008 - Bangkok (4 days) July 2008 - Cambodia August 2008 - Vietnam August/September 2008 - Laos September 2008 - Thailand September/October 2008 - Malaysia & Singapore October/November 2008 - New Zealand November 2008/January 2009 - Australia ...

... any time. Please check the welcome board or reception desk, located on the ground floor of the hotel, for a Welcome Notice for your tour. This will advise you of your Tour Leader's name, telephone number and the time and location of your group meeting. Normally, the meeting will be at 6pm. Until your meeting we encourage you to get out and discover the delights that Vietnam has to offer. Make sure that you take a hotel business card so that you will be able to find your way back to the ...

... that this is our starting point and the fact we are newbies at the long term travelling, we thought this was a good idea. I have copied and pasted the full itinerary forthis tour below from the Geckos website. Obviously, when we do our trip, I will blog what we do and we will see how close the Geckos description is. We have had our Chinese visas delayed as the embassy has requested proof of transport in and out of the country and the name of the Hotel that we are stopping at. As we ...

... we have booked in advance include flights, travel insurance, injections, medication, a couple of tours, visas, campervan, bus tickets, accommodation etc etc. I will try and list most of the stuff we have pre-arranged and give a rough price we have paid. Flights We used STA travel for this and they sorted out a round the world ticket that included the main flights that we needed. These flights are : London Heathrow to Hong Kong Hong Kong to Bangkok ...