Russell Hotel Weymouth

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After 6 years sharing our lives in this small town in Somerset, finally we left the country to return to Spain. But as you can see, there won´t be a direct flight, we will deviate a little, and let's go around the world in 60 days. We will keep reporting

After a lovely couple of days with Art & Thurza Comben when on Sunday the drive over from Christchurch was fine and sunny we found a Vintage Motor Cycle run from Britbits in Iford with a Wurzal lookalike group playing live and singing "Drink up thee Cider Garge", gorgeous and in beautiful weather we got to Crewkerne in time for a late lunch.

Monday Lona & Thurza were dropped off in Yeovil to shop while Art ...

... before the ascent of Everest), the next three days afford a window to move , unfortunetly it will not be west but back tracking east, Ive run out of time its taken me 18 days to get 63 miles, I could have walked the south coast path and got further in that time, Maybee has done well but corribees have their limitations, when on a time scale , if like Kudu your just going for it no matter ...

... tide. I had to round the bill at 1400-1430 in order to get the slack water.I had heard of stories of small fleets of boats going round as one, well not on this day,
I was entairely alone, but wait no there was the cornish shrimper that had been caught out off st albans like I was, and was moored alongside in weymouth, the owners going back to poole for a few days rest.The shrimper in my opinion was too far out and was
in the eddies again, slowley my gps told ...

... numbers and reportimng they are stolen that should do the trick(no I wont of course)
well wa back on the boat at 3pm before high tide then altered the lines constantley as it krept down he wall, also there is a tendancy to swink forwards and backwards even with springs on, I now have a conbweb of lines over the sides(6 at l;east) to try and hold mnaybee in place,Ive come into Bridport again just fore an hour , cant stop any longer , it feels like being a ...

... rain but we all had fun. The day we went to Monkey World was a really nice day weather wise and we all enjoyed it. Jody, Marice, Emily, Ryan, and Isabelle gave Dee an Orangutan adoption for his birthday, it was Joly a baby around 4 years old, Dee was thrilled and managed to meet Joly to say hello albeit through the viewing glass but it was fun, and it will be good to keep up with Joly's progress. I am sure we will be going back for another ...

... ve got 3 signs printed in the last 24 hours. Luckily one of the specials is a printer by trade (police specials rather than the 80's pop group) and he was able to produce them promptly. We have a band to play tonight. The Four Quits will be in attendance. Never heard them play, but I like the name. There would appear to be a fair number of people planning to be at The Dog tonight to see us off. That still seems to be a long way off as I have a ...

... to find out he was also going on the trip, even if it wasn't for the entire trip. Oh, I've also been promised 30 Dorchester football shirts, to go with my Weymouth FC shirts. I can now host a match between the two Dorset rivals under African skies. The Premiership big boys have been stopped from playing their matches abroad, but I'll get my game between Dorchester and Weymouth in Addis Ababa. In your face, Sepp Blatter !

... Handed in my ONP book and sat the test. Was happy to discover I passed 42/50 and I am now able to register as a nurse in the UK! I am so proud with how much I have acomplished in the last month. Treated myself to dinner at Pinochio's Italian, like the one back home in Randwick. Expenses: 85.60GBP lunch, dinner and souvenirs, including hoodie

Way back in 1973 my wife and I were living in Hull, East Yorkshire,
from where we set off in our tiny Datsun Cherry loaded with camping
gear to look at 'The Continent'. We went via Dover ferry to Belgium,
Luxembourg, France & Germany to Switzerland. We camped beside Lake
Thun, at Gwatt and after a few days respite decided to go over the
Grimsel and Furka passes into Italy, then ...