Prince Of Wales Rotherham

... the gorge up the gorge” debacle followed by kilometres of what, bog? on top of a mountain?!! where the hell were we?!! Also, damn the reservoir where, having run out of water, Ryan requested that I wade in and try and get some water for boiling. Cold! Muddy! Undrinkable! Squidgy!

... I was walking on. They’d paved the path with boulders?! On purpose?!

This was when my leg started coming out of its socket.

The Greedy Sheep Incident

Pennine sheep are in some parts greedy having been feed by walkers they rather expect food now. They will sneak up behind you but if you wave a stick they kind of run away and wait for you to stop paying attention again. I asked Ryan (remorseless *******) to watch ...

... raining still!

It has been a bit of a blur today, as well as the Royal Marsden we have been to Addenbrookes in Cambridge, THe Queen Elizabeth in Birmingham and now I am sitting in a cosy front room in Sheffield with a real fire!
I am excited about tomorrow as we will be going back to my home town of Newcastle. Yippee!!
I have taken a few pictures of the day.

... the CHANGE. I don't particularly like change, but I like to take myself out of my comfort zone sometimes and see what I can handle. Keep challenging myself.

Keeping this short, otherwise it will get VERY boring. More time for fun stories and escapades then! xox

WOW what a week! No sooner had we unpacked our bags and repacked our belongings into storage we were packing again to start our adventure! We had only a very short time to catch up with family before we were saying our goodbyes again. Although we never thought we'd be ready our bags are finally packed and were on the train down to London Kings Cross. We are very tired so hope to get some sleep on the overnight flight to Nairobi.

... 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
Can't believe how the pound as fallen in value. Just ordered our SA rand, this time last year over 16 to the pound now just over 12, that is some drop. Not long to go now

... ritual which we got to watch. This particular ritual only happens once a year. There are three different rituals that happens around midsummer, at different points of the day. It was very interesting to watch. One minute, all you see are tourists snapping photo after photo in front of the structure, and then the next thing you know there is a big line of people dressed in long white cloaks walking towards the sacred stones. Some are carrying incense balls, while some are ...

... way. However, I do always put a get out clause with anything I say, come the first sign of winter, no doubt I will be on the first plane to sunnier climes waving farewell to my dear friends and family. Although we are settled back home, my thirst and want to travel has not waned. If anything, I want to do more. I don't think either of us will do a trip of this length again but we have lots of ideas for future trips and have a long long list of places to go ...

... Room. Leading off the Victorian Kitchen, Scullery and Servant's Hall is the access to the Walled Garden. Back inside, the tour took you to the Serving, Dining, Terrace, and Drawing Rooms, the Library, the Red Damask Room and the Victorian Parlour. Upstairs there are the: Glass Galleries, Victorian, Green and Oak Bedrooms and an area given over to a Regimental Museum. Things I missed by not spending more time Cannon Hall included a lot of Moorcroft pottery, paintings by John Roddam ...

... meal.

It was now only a few days before Hobart saw the yearly return of a most popular and jolly fellow from afar, someone bringing gifts and very partial to fruit mince pies. And then only a couple more before Santa came. I needed to be up very early the next morning to return the car, sort through the worldly goods I had acquired since August and high-tail it to Heathrow because, unlike Santa, I didn’t have a sleigh.