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YOU CAN CHECK OUT THE VIDEO OF WHEN I ARRIVED HOME, JUST AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE So now I'm sat here after a wonderful Christmas, re-united with my family in Gatley pondering about my future and what's next for my wery head. Christmas was great and served the much needed excitment to keep my brain active not to dwell on the wonderful times of the past, yet at the same time able to relay stories to my family that keep them on edge. I've been suffering from some pretty horrible jet-lag which has made me very dazed for the last week and making me fall asleep at strange times and then wake up at even weirder times, other than that my head is in a spin. How can I possibly adjust instantly to this huge life ... read more

Ok so we made it alive after our hurtling journey to the airport and safely found ourselves a hostel in Dowtown San Francisco. On the second night of our stay there we went to a Chinese/Vietnamese resturaunt called The House of NanKing, it was seriously good food! There was a picture of Jamie Oliver on the wall and as I say the food was exquisite and came at a very low price considering how much we got... good old American portions! After two nights in the Downtown hostel we moved out to Fisherman's wharf in a place called Fort Mason which had good views of the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz based up on top of a hill. Once we'd settled in we walked around the Fisherman's wharf area, which was pretty much stereotypicaly San Francisco-an; ... read more

We'd been informed that Tahiti was extremely expensive so we were very wary of how this would effect our miniature budget. When we arrived at the airport at 1am it seemed ridiculous to pay for somewhere to sleep for only a few hours so we made ourselves comfortable on the floor in the airport lying on our sleeping bags and using our bags as pillows. It was very uncomfortabel and when the large fan above my head turned on I was being blown strongly in the face which meant I had a pretty rubbish night's sleep. When morning came and the airport came to life we began our tired adventure to another Island called Moorea, where we'd heard it was cheaper and nicer. It was 6am when we began the adventure so the island had only ... read more

The Yasawa's consist of a group of islands northwest of the mainland of Fiji. Everything was booked and we had a pass to hop between 4 islands; Nanuya Lai Lai, Naviti, Kuata and Beachcomber. After one night in Nadi in a very nice hotel (Nadi Bay Hotel) we were picked up early, 7:30am, and taken to the port to begin our island hopping on a large yellow boat with AWESOME ADVENTURES printed in large letters all over it. NANUYA LAILAI; Sunrise lodge. Our first stop was at the Sunrise lodge. After following a young man, Vassou, across the island to the lodge 30mins away, leaving beind a stunning blue lagoon where we arrived. We walked into a very rugged and very basic resort, as we'd been informed when we booked it, that the further north we ... read more

SATURDAY - Rainy day at the islands. We arrived in to Paihia where the weather was over cast and rained on and off all day. Never-the-less we pondered about town looking at the shops and inquiring into conditions and prices for swimming with dolphins the last big thing to do before we leave New Zealand. SUNDAY - The calming qualities of swimming with Dolphins. We were up early and after some thinking time about the weather we decided to go for it and booked ourselves onto the King’s dolphin’s boat tour for $89. At 9:30am we boarded the boat and set sail out into the Bay of Islands and the grey skies. We approached one pod of dolphin’s that had a baby Dolphin with them, which meant we couldn’t swim with them, but they are still ... read more