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... and thats for every flight. So we had to come up with a cunning plan. We are using a courier to send a case over to Singapore to our hotel ready for our cruise. It may seem like a lot of messing around but this is our holiday of a life time and we want to take suits and dresses we have bought for the cruise and have room for a few (very few say's Tony) momentos to ...

... or I will no doubt be sick (again)!

I will add some photo's when I arrive on the isle of Tasmania, and I will write again once I am over the jet lag.

Goodbye for now my lovely friends and family.. see you all in 6 months or so!! Love Julia x x x

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.

Well I am happy to report that despite postal strikes I have my passport back and a multiple entry visa stamp inside.
I was so relieved to have the passport back.I really do not like to be parted from it.
All I have to do now is get through the next 4 weeks at work.Oh well I am sure I will manage.
Bye for now.

John

Sue came across the four nations rugby league tournament on the internet so we decided to head across to the west for a weekend of sport. The match we picked was England v's Australia at Wigan. It was about a 3 hour drive and we just got to the game at kick off.

The game was a bit disappointing from an atmosphere perspective because the Kangaroos carved the Poms up and led 26 nil at half time which resulted in ...

Right, so we go back to England from USA and i went back to Airbus for a few months till we leave for our round the world trip again and manage to sell the house. That is done so have also arranged to get a pay off for leaving Airbus so helps with the travel budget. Its been ...

... br>But I must concede that among all those really really old trophies, the museum was ok and I learned some interressant things about the club, for my football culture anyway. After watching my mates spending fortunes on the club's megastore rubbishes, we went back into town to enjoy a few pints.

A really good place to enjoy early drinks (it was about 4pm) is definitively the Cavern Club. The Beatles made their first lunchtime appearance at ...

... your Mum and Dad. We have tried to convince them all to come to Australia so maybe in the next few years we will have an influx of Brits making their way to our home. Anyway as you will see from the photos we got along really well and the conversation flowed with none of us wanting it to end. However as we are all getting older we started to get tired and the evening finished about midnight. Tony got in our car and directed us back to his house, our home for the next few ...

... and then we went to the Metro Cathedral (catholic) which was a fair bit smaller and had a completely different feel. i really enjoyed Liverpool. A whole bunch of us also went ice-skating that night too which was fun - i havent done that in years... well next update will be from London. PLease dont forget to go the link below and check out the photos so far from this trip. Photos for Manchester will be on by mid sept hopefully. Nath

John took me to Blackpool. He may have wanted to show me a UK beach resort. The street along the beach was full of decorations. I took a picture of his profile in the car. It was just a memory of Blackpool. We were on the way from Preston, where we met his old friend, and John talked about the word "love", because people there used "love" meaning "you" very often, when they talk to someone, like "Good morning, love!". That sounded awkward to him.