The George Hotel St. Neots

It's scary how close our trip is now,the "to do" list keeps growing. We have new suitcases,new passports,new clothes for Immy,borrowed clothes for me,housesitters booked,jabs done,school n Melbourne booked,Borneo booked,KL booked but boy-the "to do" list keeps growing.

Not told Immy yet as it is so far away for a 4yr old ...

... us both out, as we love the finer things in life. Well not for the next 3 months. Home cooking all the way, thats also another big joke as Nic and I struggle to boil an egg and I once forgot to put water in the pan when cooking rice! No joke. ;) So all in all the next 3 months will be a huge challegnge, in more ways than one. But its something we have both wanted to do for such a long time. I am so glad that I am ...

A quick update. Things have moved on, including us. We're pleased to report that a few days ago Brian the van was declared healthy, after some serious re-constructive surgery!

On Monday we left Norfolk and began a series of public transport journeys that would take us from Norwich to London, London to Cheltenham (to visit with friends for a couple of nights) and then Cheltenham to Birmingham to finally pick up our beloved Brian. We ...

... Jim Morrison from the Doors - many tenants graves have their own traditions - Jim's involved drinking, drugs, and sex on his grave so there are now full time security gaurds keeping an eye on his grave at all times!

Then we headed into the Latin Quarter, so named as the university was in the area, and back in the day all the scholars spoke Latin - even the beggars in the area were versed in a phrase or two! This is where our free walking tour ...

There’s a picture of Laura and me taken about a year ago, standing in our pyjamas on the morning of our wedding with the event location owner. We were deciding the pudding menu for the reception that evening and I was yet to pick what I was going to wear for the ceremony and the party. So with that sort of attitude to organising our own wedding, it’s not surprising that despite a year’s ...

... job in Corporate Research (a heavy week of 4 meals out so far), John has been busy at home planning and making some initial bookings. We have one single flight to Thessaloniki from Gatwick. We kick off our travels at Ntia and Ramin's Persian-Greek wedding. From Thessaloniki we will fly to Buenos Aires via Rome with Air Italia. We have 45 days in South America. In his usual style, John has prepared a 4-page excel ...

... Travelling really broadens the mind. For me, the most amazing experience is to experience how people live in the world. It was touching to see the basic villages in India and Laos, where the people were so warm and happy. Carrying very little and moving outside of the comforts of the western world was also strangely rewarding. 4 days ago I finally agreed to accept a new position in Unilever as a product ...

... printed out at home) 1x travel guide 1x moneybelt (although we ended up not really using ours at all) 1x wallet (1000 USD cash plus 1000 USD travellers cheques... didnt need to use any travellers cheques until we arrived in Venezuela) Clothing Visiting a variety of different climates from hot and tropical Asia to the high altitude mountains of Chile, we needed a lot of different clothing. Its ideal taking lots of layers and at times I was wearing ...

Perhaps the last entry whilst we're sat here in my lovely home in sunny old St Neots overlooking Mipsy's shiny red Renault Megane. Well we have now entered scary territory where we realise the trip we booked almost a year ago is now upon us, as in no less than 4 days we will be flying off to deepest darkest Peru. We would both like ...

It's been a surreal past couple days. We both had our last day at work on the 1st June. It was nice that so many people were wishing us well for our travels and it was a little strange to be driving home from work for the last time. We enjoyed our first day of freedom by treating ourselves to a lie in till 10am followed by day-time TV viewing. Then we got stuck into clearing up our house of all our personal possessions. We seem to have ...