Ye Olde Vicarage Hotel Holmes Chapel

Hey Everyone... if you're reading this then it means we remembered to hand out the log on details for our blog and you're missing us already, enough to have bothered to log on before we're even left Manchester! ; )<br><br>As most of you are aware today, Tuesday 1st December, at 6:45pm Paul and I will embark on our 'BIG ADEVENTURE' with a BA flight to Heathrow, London!<br ...

... further south to start the journey in the light of the advancing winter - but as a man once said, "Go big, or Go home!" (I make no judgement as to whether he was a wise man). Starting in Amsterdam is more memorable and allows me to pass through three more countries (Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) for the sake of an additional day or two on the road.<br><br>The countdown is at 15 days and 21 hours...

After 3 years of saving we are finally set to go travelling to Eastern and Southern Africa. We will arrive in Uganda and head to Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Victoria Falls and possible Madagascar before flying back in June 2010.

... for a few days; thanks Steve. :-)<br><br>This week will consist mainly of waiting for my next vaccination and another set of goodbye drinks but the process of refining the contents of the pack is practically neverending. Tonight i started filling plastic baggies with spices and wondering idly whether or not they will get me arrested at customs... might have to reconsider the larder options.<br>

... br>Sticking to the subject of Physics here is the first fast fact (say that 3 times fast&#8230;) of my update. You will find 2 female bathrooms in the whole of the physics building they are on the ground floor, and that is it. When I left a workshop to find a bathroom, I returned 30 minutes later after walking past 6 men&#8217;s rest rooms (all next to a fully equipped handicap restroom). I then announced to my friends that there ...

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

... past our alloted take-off time and it was obvious we were sat on the apron waiting for a free slot, which luckily did show up about 20 mins later. The flight itself was fine and short. The aircraft was full of people of a certain age and older plus a large man of the cloth. It turned out this was a church congregation returning from a pilgrimmage to the Holy Land. I noticed a woman across the aisle praying as we lifted off and as we ...

... like to explore. It is the principal resort on Lake Windermere, it is a town<br>crammed with quaint narrow streets jammed full of summer tourists which<br>sprawls along the shores of the lake somewhere between Waterhead and<br>Lakeside.<br><br> <br><br>Sweeping upwards from the fringe of the lake you can immediately see<br>the legacy of the town's Victorian "Hey Day" in the fine buildings that<br>remain from a period when wealthy industrialists from ...

... quickly became apparent that, even with fifteen days, I couldn't visit every country in the region so I decided to cut three of them out (well, I didn't decide to cut three out, that's just how it happened). I had been to the selected three the year before and so, for those interested, this is a lager-based overview of the places I cut from the itinerary; Slovenia- Ljubljana is one of my favourite cities in the entire world and thus I regretted the need to cut it ...

... here are pretty cheap. I was in need of another pair of pants and the £9.99 price tag on some navy cargos was looking pretty good. Even with the exchange, they'd be about 23bux, and still, that's decent. Nothing really different about Preston, but the docks were quite nice (just drove past) We passed a used car lot, and I saw an old VW (a Golf, I think) for a nice price of just £195! The numbers make it look cheap, but in the back (the FAR back, might I remind u) of my mind ...