Lantern Pike Inn Glossop

... we have had since we arrived. Lots of laughs and reduced to tears in the end. I think the 2 kids may have also enjoyed it.
The Villain from Coronation Street and the star, Aladdin, from Hollyoaks. A pleasure for the ladies in the audience.

Great night.

... supportive and keep making sure I have everything I need or if there is anything they can help with. I feel I have built on the skills I already had and have gained some new ones - Who said ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks’!! I rather enjoy just being able to walk across the road to catch the bus. Means there’s no real time pressure in the morning because they run very frequently during morning peak so if I miss one ...

... decision to reside there has been entirely mine (albeit a decision born of convenience). It is perhaps to be expected that leaving Stoke once and - effectively - for all, has brought it home once again that, actually - this is a pretty big deal! All I was feeling was the sense of vertigo that is caused by the shape of one's life changing radically - and rapidly. It's like being on a fairground ...

... the gorge up the gorge” debacle followed by kilometres of what, bog? on top of a mountain?!! where the hell were we?!! Also, damn the reservoir where, having run out of water, Ryan requested that I wade in and try and get some water for boiling. Cold! Muddy! Undrinkable! Squidgy!

... back for me while I got something out of my pack, he didn’t, and the sheep almost got me.

See that Campsite?

After almost finishing the part of the Pennine that I call “The Ball Breaker” Ryan points down the mountain to a little campsite in the distance. It was far away but hope sprang back into my heart until he said, “See that campsite? Our campsite is only 2km from there.” YEARGH!!!

... filled with Laphroig single malt but will probably hold a number of different spirits around the way).)

Backpack: Clothes, Food and cooking utensils, Duck tape

Top Bar: Energy tablets, gels and Caffiene tablets

I'm glad that is sorted - now just to put my affairs in order.

Precisely 1 week today!

Well, my little adventure begins here, in Stoke-on-Trent!

I found out about going to Denmark in September, and since then I've been planning how to get there. At first I look at getting the plane straight to Copenhagen, but that's a far too mediocre start. Instead, I'm travelling (with my Mum and Brother) via train on the following route -

1st Class train from Stoke-on-Trent to London
1 Night in a London Hostel
Eurostar to Cologne via Brussels
1 Night ...

I can't really afford to make it all the way round my trip without a little work along the way, so as I couldn't sleep the other night, I applied for a Working Holiday Visa for Australia at 2.00am. By 3.00am it was filled in, paid for and approved. I am now legally entitled to work in Oz. Bonza. What excellent service from the Aussie Immigration website ...

In a fit of bravery I have booked the tickets for the second leg of my world tour. A very nice man from Round the World Experts beat any other quote that I had got and I now have my very-expensive-to-cancel tickets! I had to drop Nairobi off the list as it was adding £900 to my flights which was rather a shame, but with flights from Manchester to Nairobi only being around £500, it makes more sense to do it as a seperate trip ...

... reason, the site wasn't accepting my credit card. I was a little perturbed (for the obvious) but didn't think it was too big of a deal, I could just get my ticket in London.

Helen had told me that I should be at the bus stop outside her dorm at 8:30 for my 9:05 bus. I took this as a suggestion, not as a requirement. When I watched one bus pass as I was walking to the stop at 8:32, I assumed another one would come by in 10 minutes. At 8:55, I realized I was in ...