Queens Hotel Blackpool

Well, as I will no doubt be running round like a mad woman tomorrow I thought it best to start this today! My last full day at home for some time. I am packed and ready to go!!

I am very nervous and cant really think of anything beyond tonight at the ...

... coach ride home. It was funny, we left in plenty of time, but the traffic on the motorway was TERRIBLE! WE actually parked the car in a bus zone, ran across the road to the bus station and just made it in time for my departing bus...ahhh my adrenalin was definitely pumping!! Fun fun =]
Oh, I nearly forgot: Haggis is delicious, but apparently i was cheated out of real Scottish haggis (according to Dave and Alex)... which has left me deeply confused. Mine ...

We are sitting with a huge pile of travel guides, maps, notebooks, post it notes and general accumulated info in front of us wondering where to start!

The itinery is almost sorted out in terms of countries and cities. We've got the MASTA health brief and the FCO no go areas. We think we've got Visa requirments in hand and the boring (but necessary ...

We headed back into Liverpool today and to an enormous park. It is called Sefton Park. In Sefton Park there is a boating lake, a Victorian glass house (The Palm House), a bronzed statue of Peter Pan, a ...

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I was really excited to be going back to Wigan after so many years, as my brother Jack played football in Wigan and Blackpool (& St Helens?) and I remember vividly coming up to watch him play. He lived only a couple of streets away from the stadium on the west side, but this area is full of huge shopping centres now, so I doubt his street even exists anymore.

I found it really exciting to just be at ...

... my subjects... or washing... or emails to reply to... etc., but i'm slowly re-learning organisation skills (something I seem to have left in Australia).

So what have I been up to socially?!?
I made a trip back to Bolton last friday, my housemate Becca gave me a ride since she lives in Manchester... so we had a fine 30min roadtrip with a gps lady talking to us over loud Becca-style music :) I had to go straight to Bolton library though to finish ...

Tow truck 2, turns up at 15:29 and we are off again for the next leg of the journey, Stirling Services to Lancaster Services. This journey takes around 4 hours and I have a nice chat with the driver, Jim all the way. We phone ahead and arrange the next tow truck to meet us at Lancaster at 19:15, guess what? Yes, it wasn't there and I am told it won't be there until 20:15 and it finally arrives at 20:30

... okay. We ended up winning by 17 points but lost a key team player. Toorak B Team vs Rathdown School This was the toughest game so far, but we overcame the pressure put on by the other team to have a fantastic 2 point win. It was a tight gave and we gave it our best and didn't stop until the final whistle and it all paid off in the end and we had a great win. 33-31 Win to Toorak College

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< br>We were in the 2008 European City of Culture, if the billboards trumpeting this on every street corner were to be believed. But isn’t that slightly premature? How on earth do those making the pronouncement know that in four years time Liverpool deserves a title like that? Or is there no more to it than the major cities on the continent sharing the title between themselves ...

John took me to Blackpool. He may have wanted to show me a UK beach resort. The street along the beach was full of decorations. I took a picture of his profile in the car. It was just a memory of Blackpool. We were on the way from Preston, where we met his old friend, and John talked about the word "love", because people there used "love" meaning "you" very often, when they talk to someone, like "Good morning, love!". That sounded awkward to him.