Today began the drive home to Germany. It was actually nice that we got to sleep in just a little bit after the hectic long and busy days we had before. I think we eventually got on the road sometime between 10 and 11. We were intending on dropping my dad off at the airport, but he ended up riding all the way home with us. It was pretty uneventf...

The first day of the trip wasn't particularly auspicious...unfortunately Marg (a friend of Diane's) was so sick that she couldn't drag herself from her sick bed to join us on our trip. So then there were the three of us - me (birthday girl to be), Fiona (my flatmate), Diane (former work colleague). Official start of the trip was at 6pm at the ch...

This is hopefully going to be a travel blog with a bit of difference, the main reason being is that all this lines you see on my map, will have been travelled overland,by train, bus, hitch hiking, horse, boat...ect (not like some of the other peoples blogs which have travelled the world but by plane), im going to try and go to all the places in ...

Friday May 18th Well, the final day of our adventure had arrived. We had mixed feelings about it, whilst being very keen to see family and friends it also meant that we were at the end of what was a very special time in our lives. Coming into Dover was not as spectacular as we had anticipated, white cliffs of Dover were not even visable! the fog...

Arriving impromptu in Calais to the surprise of our families we luckily meet up with Ma and Pa Dixon who escort us back home to the delight of one and all! It's been a long, eventful and overall fun sixteen months!

Had a nice chat with a Jewish American lady in the waiting area of the Eurolines departure area at Dover Docks about Poland whilst waiting for my coach with mum. The coach is pretty much all Polish people except me and a couple of English lads. The Polish driver has pictures of the Virgin Mary all around his seat! Poland here I come!