Ramada Jarvis Perth

... to be nothing less that spectacular. There were no trees, but the valleys and hills and dunes of grass were just as difficult if not worse to hit into than trees. Of course, my first shot went directly into the long grass. As I prepared to hit, i misjudged the distance between my ball and my golfbag, thinking I had plenty of room to swing. Little did I know, my depth perception is not as great and I imagined and my bag was far too close. On my downswing i tapped ...

... to pack in the walk early, but we managed to get a good 40 minutes of traipsing around the Loch, meanwhile the sun even came out. In the evening we went for a great meal at a Nepalese restaurant in Edinburgh - I was too stuffed even for cake :O Happy birthday Mum! You are the best xxxxx

... hope that this will serve as a record of our travels and will also help to keep us in touch with friends and family.
I should be uploading photographs to accompany this but at this stage I am unwilling to share the shambles that we are surrounded by! Piles of clothes and shoes - many of which I know that I will have to discard!
Our plans are almost ...

... time on the coast at Blackness Castle. Except it wasn't that much of a treasure - more of a war castle than a residental, picturesque castle...



It didn't really look like ...

Comparing gas and other energy prices is nothing like as hard as it used to be - in fact it's definitely one of those jobs where afterwards you'll wonder why you didn't do it ages ago. Especially because all those months that you've been meaning to check it out, you could have been saving money on your gas bills.

So just how quick and easy is it to compare gas unit ...

... phones through to the AA and books a transporter to take me back to take me back to Nottingham (East Leake).

Tow truck 1, turns up at 11:50 to take me on the first leg of the journey home from Fort William to Stirling. This takes approx 3 hours and I get dropped at Stirling service station where I am supposed to be met by the next tow truck. It takes about an hour for the next truck to turn up. Which was arranged for 14:30

... to find finally a place where to buy the external flash for the camera - first big city). The first local support band played so long and made encores, which resulted that SIC had time to only play 5 songs all in all. They were energetic as always (maybe not so joyful) and SIC made some new fans, again. Most of the people attending the bar, who seemed to be the regular's, was junkies and alcoholics and they seemed unpleasant and unfriendly. Even if WH ...

... coffee before we caught the 6 pm train home. Sunday, April 6th we woke to snow coming down like mad. Crazy weather here. However, we still managed to drive to our friend's house (William & Linda) for morning coffee. Karen & Paul got on so well with the family there, so did we, that it was hard to leave. I had nearly run out of gas in the car, and being a Sunday this was a huge issue. William gave us lengthy directions to the closest Esso ...

... stay we all were safe and warm. We were going to catch the 8am train to Glasgow so we can get over to Ireland. Everything is perfect now that we are inside and we now have a free place to stay when we get to Finland in about a month. All in all, being homeless was fun as spent the whole day doing something. I would not want to do that in a town where there is nothing to do but we made it work. I wonder if I will ever get some sleep or a place to stay. Until next time.....

... we're definitely not represented in the term small island states! I wanted to ask the First Minister in our press conference if the Scottish Parliament considered Australia a small island state, or if that was an oversight... but I didn't get the chance because no-one from Oceania got to ask a question! I was really incensed about the whole thing. It gave me a new appreciation of diplomacy. So many wars have started over relatively silly things - but those silly things can be momentous ...