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... for the quite fantastic place Hampi and as before when we visited for just one day, we wern't dissapointed. Judith has said it was her favourite part of the whole trip and I have to say, with the fantastic guest house we found and the extra time we spent there (due to the return train being full) it was quite perfect. As you have seen from the photos the place is huge and completely National Heritage. The great thing about the whole place is you can wander around to your hearts desire and ...

... 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!

... 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.

Last brief entry, just to say we are safely back home, arriving yesterday with Sue picking us up at Manchester airport.

We've had a fantastic trip - very memorable! Thank you for following our trip. Hope it hasn't been boring, certainly hasn't for us.

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... afternoon, and there is no need to have beer and wine with every meal. All these are fine once or maybe twice a week, but every day is bad for the purse and bad for the waistline. My hopes of maybe losing a bit of weight through eating less and taking more exercise have not been achieved. Whilst the alternative has been most enjoyable, it is not sustainable. Has it been all we imagined it would be? No, it has been very ...

... into a discount bookshop and they had maps of the West Yorkshire Cycle Route for a pound. Lucky they didn't have a map of Wales for 50p or I would hardly have seen anything of my family. The cycle route is really good and goes right around West Yorkshire without hardly travelling on a main road. I can do stages of it in a day and be home in time for tea, magic. I may even be fit by the time I reach South America. Apart from the short trip to Collingham I've ...

... Moonkay redneck. They are most easily recognizable by their track suits. The whole night I was terrified of looking at any guy, for fear of getting stabbed. I was also terrified of looking at any girl, because that would be the equivalent of looking at the wrong guy, at which point I would get stabbed.

The next night we were in Chester to stay with Gemma, Sophie's friend from Uni. Shortly after arrival, another one of their uni friends Helen arrived as well ...

... est in the torture and bloody executions that w**e conducted und** his reign. Bokassa was also widely rumoured (even among the int**national community) to feast on human flesh. In Uganda, megalomaniac despot Idi Amin seized pow** in the 1960s, soon earning himself the frighteningly accurate title of "Africa's Hitl**" due to his brutal repression of all dissent, his penchant for having his opponents bludgeoned to death in his presence and (when he wasn't having people summarily executed ...

... with nomadic tribespeople like the Rendille in Marsabit and the Samburu who still wear very distinctive and often elaborate dress. We pass through Marsabit National Park and then visit Samburu National Park which has some unique wildlife like reticulated giraffe and Grevy's Zebra, as well as leopard, elephant, cheetah and crocodile. Next we drive via Archers Post and Isiolo to Nanyuki which is in the foothills of Mt Kenya and then continue via Eldoret into Uganda. Weeks 7 ...