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Pre-Trip
I am so excited about going to Australia and becoming a teenager. It shall be great. Santa will come and he will give me lots of present, I hope! I've got one more day of school left and then we are driving to Manchester to get our flight at 2pm on Thursday. I think the flight is going to really bad because its 24 hours long. What am I going to do? I hope there will be a lot of movies and nice food. ...
Planning everything
... go somewhere just because it's pre booked. We have a few books on brazil and South America so I think we will be relying on them a lot while we are there. I have also got a very fitting travel journal to write everything so as I can put it on the blog later. I have created this so as family and friends can keep up with our progress and we can remember everything too. The plan so far is once ...
Leaving Haggis Land!
... chat. He even explained the inflight entertainment which was otherwise a complete and utter mystery to me! Definite highlights of the flight were the views, especially flying over Baghdad and Basra and even Kuwait, even though it was dark, it was still possible to see the cities all lit up below. The whole flight was surreal, I felt like I was watching myself in a film. Coming down into Dubai was amazing, we could even see the desert and swimming pools below...!
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Scottish Heaven
... Bryan and I waited in a long line that snaked it's way through one part of the castle to view the Crown Jewels of Scotland. They were beautiful...the crown, the sword and scepter and jewels. From there we toured the prisoner of war area of the castle. It was creepy, at the bottom of the castle. The stairs were steep and dark. It was dark and musty. I was glad to be out of there and see the light of day! ...
Back home (again)
OK, so you may not know this, but I went to University in Aberdeen, and so have been on the road between Aberdeen to Greenock many times in my life, so I ditched the SatNav for this part of the journey. I don't know how it happened or where it all went wrong, but after a while I began to question why I wasn't seeing any signs for Glasgow - before I could work it out, there it was in front of me - The Forth Road Bridge - ...