Premier Inn Stockport - South

... we have had since we arrived. Lots of laughs and reduced to tears in the end. I think the 2 kids may have also enjoyed it.
The Villain from Coronation Street and the star, Aladdin, from Hollyoaks. A pleasure for the ladies in the audience.

Great night.

... supportive and keep making sure I have everything I need or if there is anything they can help with. I feel I have built on the skills I already had and have gained some new ones - Who said ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks’!! I rather enjoy just being able to walk across the road to catch the bus. Means there’s no real time pressure in the morning because they run very frequently during morning peak so if I miss one ...

... by 9.30 but about 9.50 I realised that I was stalling: the huge reality of the situation was causing me to shy away and dither rather than taking action - it was probably behind my stomach cramps too. :-)

This was not really a surprise - the North Staffs (and South Cheshire) region has been my primary area of residence for 10 of the last 12 years, and is the only place I have lived where ...

How could anything be worse than the Ball Breaker? How? And yet it was. Damn the kilometres of bog, damn the no bacon butty truck on the highway, damn the twisty part where you go around curve after curve after curve and don’t see anything ahead of you but CURVE. Then damn the “ ...

Boulder Paths

"Over the boulder, down the boulder, **** the boulder, **** THE BOULDER!!!"

There are some points where the paths are naturally made of boulders or large rocks, fine I'm on a mountain I get it. However one day we hit some hard going with a path covered in boulders which, after about twenty minutes, I noticed there weren’t any boulders OFF the path, only on it. A neat line of ******, leg-twisting boulders was ...

... stuff is arranged as follows:

Pannier 1: Tent, Waterproof clothing and riding accessories
(Pocket: Puncture repair, inner tubes, diary, camera stand)

Pannier 2: Sleeping bag, Mattress, First Aid Kit, Miscellaneous items such as tape, cord, chargers and wires)
(Pocket: Toiletries, Spanish Phrasebook, Hip ...

... in Cologne Hostel
CityNightLine Sleeper train from Cologne to Copenhagen
3 Nights in Copenhagen Hotel
Mum and Brother return to Manchester via Easyjet

It's taken me 4 weeks to get the timing and money right, but today I've booked the majority of the tickets, and I have a shortlist of accommodation.

It's weird how it's all coming together now, it still feels like booking a holiday....but it's slowly starting to sink in that this is a 1000 mile house move ...

The ferry docked at the port in Hull just before 8 am and we made our way through customs and onto English soil all very tired and hungover from a big late night crusing the English channel. This is the first time Robert had stood on English soil since leaving his country of birth at nine years of age. There was fortunately a taxi van waiting at the port which took us into Hull and to our car hire depot where we picked up our hire car. We then drove the ...

... away feast for my arrival. Sophie's parents were amazingly hospitable and ridiculously cool. Not only did they feed me, but her father refused to see me sitting at his table without a beer in front of me and wanted to hear nothing of me drinking my own beer that we'd just bought. We then had more fun than you could ever imagine playing board games with someone's parents before checking out the Rochdale nightlife. The word of the day was 'Chav.' Chavs are basically the ...

... directly to the BBC. Now, that's whether you actually watch the BBC or not!!!! How ludicrous is that??? Oh, well, people who are partially or legally blind, get an awesome £1.25 off their yearly bill. Pardon my French, but what the hell IS that??? Ya, sure, the BBC doesn't have commercials, but the programming is ***** to begin with. I guess you can fake like you don't have a TV, but they have the 'TV Police' and they park outside your house in a white van, and test for the ...