Bedmond Hotel Blackpool

Due to airline weight restrictions we are only allowed 23kg of luggage each - have they never seen the amount of shoes & home comforts a girl needs for a month away from home??? Tony can make do with one pair of shorts, a t shirt & a change of underwear, but Debs - get real!!!

To make matters worse to take anything over the limit the airline want $50 a ...

Well, as I will no doubt be running round like a mad woman tomorrow I thought it best to start this today! My last full day at home for some time. I am packed and ready to go!!

I am very nervous and cant really think of anything beyond tonight at the ...

Im really getting lazy at this. Not a very dedicated blogger- I think I admire those who manage to keep it up all the time!!

I'm quite busy right now at uni... to be honest, most of my business is my own fault- i've been too caught up in writing fiction than doing my essays, so i'm kind of attacking two assignments due next week! I'm hoping to get them done by tomorrow, because on Friday I am going to an Indian Food Festival (YAY FOR LOTS OF ...

We are sitting with a huge pile of travel guides, maps, notebooks, post it notes and general accumulated info in front of us wondering where to start!

The itinery is almost sorted out in terms of countries and cities. We've got the MASTA health brief and the FCO no go areas. We think we've got Visa requirments in hand and the boring (but necessary ...

We headed back into Liverpool today and to an enormous park. It is called Sefton Park. In Sefton Park there is a boating lake, a Victorian glass house (The Palm House), a bronzed statue of Peter Pan, a ...

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I was really excited to be going back to Wigan after so many years, as my brother Jack played football in Wigan and Blackpool (& St Helens?) and I remember vividly coming up to watch him play. He lived only a couple of streets away from the stadium on the west side, but this area is full of huge shopping centres now, so I doubt his street even exists anymore.

I found it really exciting to just be at ...

Tow truck 2, turns up at 15:29 and we are off again for the next leg of the journey, Stirling Services to Lancaster Services. This journey takes around 4 hours and I have a nice chat with the driver, Jim all the way. We phone ahead and arrange the next tow truck to meet us at Lancaster at 19:15, guess what? Yes, it wasn't there and I am told it won't be there until 20:15 and it finally arrives at 20:30

... and paintings everywhere, perfect :-)

The city

After having our first lunch (which was not to bad actually), we went on for a little bit of tourism during the early afternoon, before heading to Anfield Road to visit the stadium and do some shopping at the club megastore. I won't speak to much about the Anfield museum, because spending 2 hours there with 3 Liverpool fans is not the among the best possible memories for a United fan ...

... place, so perhaps I needn’t be so dismissive. Just because a bogan like me can identify with something doesn’t mean it can’t also be regarded as ‘culture’ by the more refined set. So while Ali headed out to Albert Dock for the Beatles Story museum, I took off for Anfield Road.

Liverpool Football Club: A soccer club of monumental proportions, massively successful in English and European competitions, a now ...

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.