Three Acres Inn and Restaurant Huddersfield

... November. All types of food and drink on offer plus many stalls with Christmas decorations. It has been great to hear the Halle Orchestra and Bridgewater Hall has a magnificent acoustic.

Christmas Break

We are really looking forward to the 3 week break at Christmas after such a long term and so much on. Lee and Shane arrive on the 17th, Christmas music in the Cathedral on the 18th and then off to Liverpool for a Christmas Beatles ...

... we started our trips to India and I have to say that parts of it didn't dissapoint... It is a very large city standing on the banks of the River Ganga - reached by walking down tight side streets and Ghats which are large long steps.... There are approximately 32 sets of ghats with various names and usualy associated with a temple at the top of the steps... Shiva, Ganesh, Budhist, monkey and lots more temples but without doubt, the main focus are the two burning Ghats. Some go along out ...

How could anything be worse than the Ball Breaker? How? And yet it was. Damn the kilometres of bog, damn the no bacon butty truck on the highway, damn the twisty part where you go around curve after curve after curve and don’t see anything ahead of you but CURVE. Then damn the “ ...

Boulder Paths

"Over the boulder, down the boulder, **** the boulder, **** THE BOULDER!!!"

There are some points where the paths are naturally made of boulders or large rocks, fine I'm on a mountain I get it. However one day we hit some hard going with a path covered in boulders which, after about twenty minutes, I noticed there weren’t any boulders OFF the path, only on it. A neat line of ******, leg-twisting boulders was ...

... 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.

... chicken would have resembled a sleeping child compared with me I was that hyper (caffeine mixed with anticipatory excitement). I could barely write and was definately on turbo speed mode. Survived that and so did my patients, then ventured into town after work to visit the Birmingham/Frankfurt xmas markets (apparently the largest outside Germany). Of course it was dark by the time I got into town (5pm) so all the xmas lights were on and gave ...

This is just to get the ball rolling as it were.
Our aim is to have a life laundry over the next few months. Plan our year long trip through Europe. Sell or pass on to others things we need. Buy and equip a motor home. Produce a photo/video documentary of the trip.

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.

... then down one from the ground floor to find the kitchen and dinging room. While we waited for lunch, we spent time on the laptop, piano and outside playing footy. Eleanor, Carl's wife, returned for lunch for which we had roast chicken, potatoes, peas, chips and gravy with ice cream and malteasers for dessert. Considering most of us hadn't had much breakfast, it was great to be able to get food into our systems. We spent the rest of the afternoon ...

... would we want to walk a mile extra just to stand right at the bottom of a massive cliff that we were then going to have to climb? I couldn't get my head round it. Karim pointed out that the book was intended for people who did this sort of thing more than never. And it was written for all sorts of people, not just people doing the whole thing in one go with tents on their backs. I returned that I would like to give Martin Collins a worm's-eye view of my ...