Walkabout Hotel Newport

Well 7 weeks to GO!!!!


June is still busy buying clothes can't keep her out the shops. We are busy trying to set up all the systems we need in place and staff what they need to do in our absence.

Great finding so many people interested in what we will be doing and where we are travelling to.

Just want to get Junes problem sorted at the hospital they are messing us about. Got heavy with them today.

Watch out for the next update.

What an arrival

Having board the easy jet flight we were told that the wind was blowing at 50 MPH in bristol well whats new its bristol we arrive 15 minuites late after a pretty bumpy decent but smooth landing at Bristol airport

Welcome to wind and rain as the door open follow by a gale blowing accross the runway

... lost contact, found each other, lost contact etc etc. But each time we found each other he always said I have to be in his film.
Well, this year I tracked him down to discover he is has just about finished shooting his film. He said he still wants me in it and said he will have to see if he can write me in a part. I joked and said include a dream/nightmare scene and I will be in it.
When I came to SLC in August I met with Jerry as old friends and he said he has got a great role ...

Well - being in Cardiff was good since it is the closest airport, being on a 2-hr drive to the hotel. But had to wait about an hour for the rental car place to open up.

At least I got to go through the visitor information brochures and grab a bite at Burger King.

... time dancing on stage with them and doing the splits, i ACTUALLY thought i was beyonce knowles shaking my ass for the crowd! hannah in the meantime had tops off standin on a stool looking like she just got out the shower where she was dripping with sweat so much! she also claims she can speak thai singing along to all the thai songs! Elliott got pretty loose on the old chang and was boogling with his top off also on stage trying to pinch the signers microphone he was having none of it ...

... up to the rest of the art on the second floor. Not a bad collection. Good Impressionist paintings, including some Monets I remembered seeing in my art history textbook senior year, and Rodin's The Kiss.

I nearly had to run to Cardiff Castle afterwards to get in before the last entry time of the day. I wound up getting a premium tour ticket so I could get into more rooms. The castle was really decorated under this coal mining mogul Lord Bute, I ...

... by Henry VIII during the church reformation - only the bones really remain today which i think adds to the beauty.

Our tour guide Mike is just amazing, his knowledge from ancient history, to politics to sheep is just awsome. On the topic of sheep, there are 3 million people in Wales, compared to over 15 million sheep!

We arrived at our hostel this evening to discover we are the only guests, and the ...

a walk to the train station in tournai, a train to lille, then another train to caines, then a walk to the ferry terminal, then a ferry to dover, and then two busses to bristol, and then a ride from the coach station to the farm. whoo hoo made it. 11 hrs and 70 BS later. but it was the only option without spending more money...

there was not much of a view on the ...

... some great time alone. It was then, sadly, time to board the train to come back to good ole' manch. We had to switch trains, and to our surprise and delight, we realized we were in Whales. So I spent an hour in Whales last sunday, which was pretty cool. Got back around 6:30, and got ready for the long week ahead. This week I was on my first attachment, or internship, or work experince (as they call it here). It was *********g 9 1/2 hour days full of usual ...

... to a 3-4 dollar raise, that would be a dramatic difference for me! So wish me luck guys! I am going to Amsterdam again in about 2 weeks, January 3rd to visit my dad and Sylvain, and Jon gets to meet them. Hopefully I can make a day trip to see the rest of the family in Rotterdam as well. I don't work very much after new years....I will have the first 2 weeks off in January because there is no work. My house is finally getting things fixed one bit at a time at a very slow pace, but ...