Ramada Hotel Norwich

We are at Dick & Bridgets. Charli is fine and has already had a good explore around - Roly is not so sure - unless he is just attention seeking!!! This morning Tony & Dick have draught proofed there en-suite room! Bridget is just trying to think of ...

Having time to ourselves was one of the hopes for our travelling amongst the usual things of seeing places, meeting people and experiencing new things. Laura had a romantic notion of breaking down somewhere and having an enforced stop where we would settle into the local community whilst the friendly local mechanic set about fixing our LDV. However, breaking down in Norfolk and staying at my mum's house, in wet November wasn’t quite the idea. Instead of waking up ...

... the third engine failure of our journey to Alex's Mum in Norfolk (what was supposed to be just a slight detour on our way to Dover for a ferry on the 9th Nov). It could have been worse, we could have come to rest in the middle of a busy A road instead of splayed at an odd angle across the store's disabled parking bays! Three cheers for Alex's marvellous steering ...

... below and check out this travel guide on the activities to try;

Hiking – You really should get to know Vietnam inside out and what better way than to explore the scenic and serene mountains in the north of Vietnam by hiking. Take in the mesmerizing nature in the Central Highlands of Vietnam and the grassy tracks of Mekong Delta offer many memorable hiking expeditions.

Jungle Trekking - Vietnam has deep green ...

... it was designed in the 70s but it looks like it could be brand new. They had a beautiful exhibition in there of photographs of farming and farmers in East Anglia. It sounds daggy, but the photos were just stunning. They also had one on surrealism, but I wasn't so keen on that. Far too many pairs of underwear stretched across chairs and disturbing video installations.

Anyway, that is all from me really. Hope you're all well. Not long now til I'm home really!

xox Hannah

... are funished with mostly original funiture. The gardens are also pretty spectacular, but I didn't spend long in them because it was so damn cold! They also had a great gift shop and a lovely cafe full of taditional English cakes. I tried 'Bakewell tart', which was quite nice. It's pasty, with a layer of jammy berries, then a cakey almondy layer on top.

The weekend of excess continued on Sunday, when I headed into Norwich for the day with my friend ...

Yahoo - I finished work yesturday - so now I can really concentrate on our huge Halloween/Tonys Birthday/10th Anniversary and leaving party and then once we've cleaned up from that ..... I can concentrate on packing..... downsizing......packing......... off loading my heavier items into Tonys rucksack ...... then repacking again.

Amazingly I was quite sad to leave work - well the friends I have made rather than the work part ...

And this Yup this is it!! Getting ready for the off having spent days frantically searching for flights.

I had a lot of trouble trying to do this edit and complained about this site being sooooo slow......well it seems i am the slow one as i discovered the problem resides in my elderly copy of ie6, this site works perfectly well with firefox.....so if anybody caught my earlier caustic comments about the site ...

... make their own ales, was a little pub, not overly modern, so it had a great feeling to it. Prue loved their Peach beer, whilst Ben was happy to try a couple of different ones. Apparently there are a few pubs in Norwich that brew their own ales and beers, so we shall keep that in mind as summer nears. Well we hope you are all well. Shall write again soon. Lots of Love Prue and Ben xxx

Well I hope you have all recovered from what I thought was a great party, albeit one that descended rapidly into a mass of drunken antics, which of course I refrained from.... well you all know that I don't drink, ahem. Thanks to you all for showing up to send us off, we hope you all had a great time. Nik was starting to get a little emotional towards the end, whereas I was of course a tower of ...