The Waldorf Hotel Blackpool

... 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

... to see if I could locate her bag and stuff... and once we found it (thankfully!) we discovered that her camera was missing.. and still is missing (along with the shoe...). We hoped to discover who this camera-shoe-werido thief was, but since Jess can't remember what happened (apparently she even got into a fight!), there is a possibility she left it somewhere herself, or donated it to a homeless person even (one nice black high heel shoe can be counted as ...

We are sitting with a huge pile of travel guides, maps, notebooks, post it notes and general accumulated info in front of us wondering where to start!

The itinery is almost sorted out in terms of countries and cities. We've got the MASTA health brief and the FCO no go areas. We think we've got Visa requirments in hand and the boring (but necessary ...

... area, lawn tennis courts, a band stand and a cafe! We had a great time.

Here is a website with more information about Sefton Park:
http://www.visitliverpool.com/ site/sefton-park-p90321

... so-to-speak.

We found it hard to get our head around the way Wigan was so much "into" Halloween. Everywhere we went there were fake skulls and skeletons, witches 'hair' and scary things hanging up. At our restaurant when the waiter came up to us, I nearly fell off my chair. I had to say to him, "I'm sorry, I'm finding it hard to get past all the (fake) blood over your face and white shirt to make an order!!" His face ...

... with me here in Lancaster) for lunch tomorrow- we might be going abroad Lancaster so i could have a chance at seeing something new, which is always exciting... and on friday i'm having tea with my chinese friend Ping Zhu ... i'll probably go easy on myself this weekend, since im going to Scotland next weekend :D Cant wait!! Then Dave (and alex??) will be coming here to visit me on the Tuesday, we'll prbably have a nice cooked dinner and go out... so far that ...

... that Hersey's chocolate!". I personally have to agree, having become quite the connoisseur of Cadbury's (I bought a block last night that was filled with chocolate fudge).

My next main point of weekly excitement came on Wednesday night when we went down to hang out with our friends downstairs. They were all too excited when they saw that those plastic cups from American party movies really do exist. Unfortunately, long tables are themselves also nonexistent in ...

Tow truck 2, turns up at 15:29 and we are off again for the next leg of the journey, Stirling Services to Lancaster Services. This journey takes around 4 hours and I have a nice chat with the driver, Jim all the way. We phone ahead and arrange the next tow truck to meet us at Lancaster at 19:15, guess what? Yes, it wasn't there and I am told it won't be there until 20:15 and it finally arrives at 20:30

... thought that soccer related violence had improved greatly since the 1990’s, but perhaps I was wrong, and it was a gloomy thing to see.

Ali and I then drove the thirty miles east along the M62 to Manchester, spending the afternoon taking in its central landmarks like St Peter’s Square and Piccadilly Gardens.

“Once upon a time, not too long ago, we took a day out in Manchester,
But we all fall down ‘coz there ...

John took me to Blackpool. He may have wanted to show me a UK beach resort. The street along the beach was full of decorations. I took a picture of his profile in the car. It was just a memory of Blackpool. We were on the way from Preston, where we met his old friend, and John talked about the word "love", because people there used "love" meaning "you" very often, when they talk to someone, like "Good morning, love!". That sounded awkward to him.