The Windmill Hotel Blackburn

Hey Everyone... if you're reading this then it means we remembered to hand out the log on details for our blog and you're missing us already, enough to have bothered to log on before we're even left Manchester! ; )<br><br>As most of you are aware today, Tuesday 1st December, at 6:45pm Paul and I will embark on our 'BIG ADEVENTURE' with a BA flight to Heathrow, London!<br ...

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

... 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 ...

After 3 years of saving we are finally set to go travelling to Eastern and Southern Africa. We will arrive in Uganda and head to Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Victoria Falls and possible Madagascar before flying back in June 2010.

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!<br><br>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 ...

... saw thee? <br>On Ilkla Moor baht 'at?! <br>On Ilkla Moor baht 'at?! <br>On Ilkla Moor baht 'at?! <br> <br> Tha's been a cooartin' Mary Jane <br>On Ilkla Moor baht 'at <br>Tha's been a cooartin' Mary Jane <br>Tha's been a cooartin' Mary Jane <br>On Ilkla Moor baht 'at <br>On Ilkla Moor baht 'at <br>On Ilkla Moor baht 'at <br> <br> Tha's bahn t'catch thi deeath o'cowd <br>On Ilkla Moor baht 'at <br>Tha's bahn t'catch thi ...

... they decided the Manchester flight would go from gate 7, which wasn't really a gate but a cunning set of stairs disguised as a gate. This lead to a bus that drove all the way round the airport to an Airbus 320 with 'Star Alliance' seemingly crudely stenciled on the side (they really do need to hire a graphics designer). We had to climb up steps in the rain to the aircaft too - no civilised departure fingers for us BMI monkeys. We were ...

... like to explore. It is the principal resort on Lake Windermere, it is a town<br>crammed with quaint narrow streets jammed full of summer tourists which<br>sprawls along the shores of the lake somewhere between Waterhead and<br>Lakeside.<br><br> <br><br>Sweeping upwards from the fringe of the lake you can immediately see<br>the legacy of the town's Victorian "Hey Day" in the fine buildings that<br>remain from a period when wealthy industrialists from ...

... 23,000 and the stadium could have held 27,000(?) I think. I got a real buzz out of being one of the 'odd men out' seeing England was playing on their home ground.... and when the roars went up from the English people when they eventually scored - I felt it was more relief than happiness! It was all fairly good natured except when (as John said) the English people booed their own team off at half time. I missed that entirely as I ...

Wetter: Besser als erwartet. Bisher hatte ich hier erst 2 echte Regentage. Ansonsten, wie auch heute, teilweise sogar richtig heiter Sonnenschein. Sport: Schwimmen und Wasserbad machen Spaß. Auch wenn das natürlich für einen untrainierten Heini wie mich ein bißchen anstrengend ist im Wasser. Just to finish up yesterday's list... Gestern hatte ich meinen ersten Chinesischkurs. Die Dozentin ist ...