Ramada Warrington

... this stage it says 3 countries, which we assume is Australia, United Kingdom and Czech Republic. We are listing 5 countries as we are counting Wales and Scotland! It’s great fun being able to drive to another country.

Travels

Our midterm break to Prague and London was a real highlight so far but we have enjoyed the amount of sightseeing we can do within an hour or 2 of Manchester. 4 hours to Scotland has been our longest drive ...

Woke up this morning. Had that 'Red Letter Day' feeling. Steve obviously felt the same as we bumbled through the usual morning rituals, all the while thinking that today was not just another ordinary day.

Having said goodbye to my esteemed host of the past week I set to getting things ready to leave (and having a final idle surf on the internet). I had initially said I wanted to be out of the ...

... or I will no doubt be sick (again)!

I will add some photo's when I arrive on the isle of Tasmania, and I will write again once I am over the jet lag.

Goodbye for now my lovely friends and family.. see you all in 6 months or so!! Love Julia x x x

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 ...

... Saw the mall, very tempted to buy stuff but i restrained myself. There is a fair in town too, we went to that and me, cassie and sarah went on a ride--the freak show. It was a good way to wake us up for a little bit. Now we are just sitting in her "conservatory room" i think is what she calls it... just chatting, and writing to all of you! I miss home very much! Tomorrow Lisa wants to take us to Liverpool to see the ...

... to set, and no Gail in sight (later I was to learn that after waiting at the bus stop for over half an hour, and finally being told there were no buses running, she headed back to the resort to wait for me to ring) it was time to find a cab to take me back to the resort where we finally met up, and enjoyed an "antipasto" meal and a bottle of wine on the balcony of our resort room to toast our last night in Cyprus. Wednesday 10th January Today we must leave Cyprus, so after a ...

... one stage through the evening the subject of stubby holders came up with Tony's partner Sarah, and I was quite surprised that they didn't know what they were. When we get back to Australia we will send some over for them. We eventually left there later than we had planned, and as usual, on the trip home some of the roads were closed for repair works, so a 20min trip home took us over an hour as we struggled in the dark to find our way on unfamiliar roads ...

... their car and could not have been more helpful. They took us to the place where Brian was born where there is no house anymore, so we got a photo of Brian standing in front of the hedge out front of where the house would have been. When we first got to England several months ago and drove to Warrington we took a photo in front of 56 Hale Street, however we have since found out that when they demolished the old houses, they also rearranged the numbers so where we thought he ...

... saw me through. I know I've made some friends for life here. Yesterday I went and saw the ancient ruins of King Arthurs steel mill which is a few miles south of Warrington. It covers an area of 4 million hectares and was only recently rediscovered after a couple of anthropologists got lost on their way to Wigan. It certainly rivals Machu Picchu for entry fee. Well in a few short hours I leave for Malaysia. It is with a heavy ...