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Merry Christmas

Greetings from Manchester!

Had many responses to Geoff's new e-mail notification so thought we would send a message to update our 4 months since leaving home.

The best way of following our lives as tourists is on our "Travel Pod" which we set up for a diary for ourselves. It’s turning out to be a really good record of visits to places far and wide.

http://www.travelpod.com/m embers/geoffrhonda

Manchester, England, United Kingdom geoffrhonda

... by 9.30 but about 9.50 I realised that I was stalling: the huge reality of the situation was causing me to shy away and dither rather than taking action - it was probably behind my stomach cramps too. :-)

This was not really a surprise - the North Staffs (and South Cheshire) region has been my primary area of residence for 10 of the last 12 years, and is the only place I have lived where ...

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 “ ...

... I was walking on. They’d paved the path with boulders?! On purpose?!

This was when my leg started coming out of its socket.

The Greedy Sheep Incident

Pennine sheep are in some parts greedy having been feed by walkers they rather expect food now. They will sneak up behind you but if you wave a stick they kind of run away and wait for you to stop paying attention again. I asked Ryan (remorseless *******) to watch ...

... filled with Laphroig single malt but will probably hold a number of different spirits around the way).)

Backpack: Clothes, Food and cooking utensils, Duck tape

Top Bar: Energy tablets, gels and Caffiene tablets

I'm glad that is sorted - now just to put my affairs in order.

Precisely 1 week today!

... for now ;-)), I'm most excited about the sleeper train, it's so much more interesting then sitting in Manchester Airport for 4 hours! We'll be squeezing into a tiny cabin, with a triple bunk bed on an 11 hour journey...shutting the curtains in Germany and opening them in Denmark.....and it's cheaper (what with a lack of luggage limits saving me from extortionate Easy Jet add-ons!)

I'll keep updating this as I start booking hostels and buying things for Denmark!

So I'm back in Stoke after my brief trip back to Cumbria (where, sadly I did not see everybody that I could have). I would just like to say now that if I didn't get a chance to catch up with anyone during the whirlwind that was the last couple of months then I'm sorry and I'll see you down the road.

With a little over 10 days til departure three goals need to be achieved:

1 ...

Well the day has finally arrived! The alarm was set for 6.00am but we were both awake before it went off. After a quick breakfast we were on the bike heading for a rendevous at Colin's house in Halling in the rain!

After a quick cup of tea, Leigh up turned on his Triumph Tiger and it was time to set off for the Marsden to meet Lyndsey & David & guess what it ...

15 months ago I sat at this very computer and wrote the first of these blogs. 42 of them later, and here I find myself once again, trying to figure out how I should some up all that has passed between. Many of the people on this address list have had them all. Some people have been added along the way, and from memory I think there was just one person who asked to be taken off (I won't say who ...

... me a little bit desolate. I have a hard time drinking, hanging out and just having a good old student time...I feel like I shouldn't, not with all the suffering out there. Guilt, is it a necessary emotion? I believe it is, because its the feeling that will help us exalt to be better people. Well, I'm trying to accept my life, this wonderful life that I have, and I'm trying not to feel guilty for having it. The toughest judge is always yourself. So, as all my friends ...