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Claire and Tel - Claire and Terry Hewitt

Hi! This is me and my wife, Claire. We're just(May 2006)in the process of renting out our house in Bedford UK, and setting off travelling for a bit. Yesterday we jacked both our jobs in (Claire's a Nurse, I'm a Train Driver)and hope to be away by the end of June. There's gotta be more to life than working, and we hope to be away off and on for maybe 4-5 years.

The only concrete plan we have is that we have a flat booked in Goa for 6 months from the 1st November. We'll probably spend a few weeks in Ghana first, at a leprosy rehabilitation centre that her mum's friend runs. As soon as we leave work, our first stop is a bit nearer, a caravan in Snowdonia, Wales for a month. I need a bit of rehab myself to get over being stuck in a train cab for 6 years, and Claire's still recovering from a broken neck three years ago, so we both need to get a bit (ok, a lot) fitter. 4 weeks of walking and maybe a bit of climbing should help. Oh, and we're staying in the grounds of a pub, so now I've got no more random drink and drugs tests I'm sure we'll be getting to know the regulars there...

Anyone who wants to keep in touch with us can either do so through this site, or through our hotmail accounts: claire.hewitt@hotmail.co.uk and terry-hewitt@hotmail.co.uk (notice the dot in Claire's, dash in Terry's)

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By Claire and Tel
July 22nd 2009

Our First Visitors!! Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory

Welcome to Alice!

Our 3 weeks with Clive and Vanessa here has flown by but we managed to pack loads into the time! They left yesterday morning and homesickness hit us like a tonne of bricks. I think it was just that they were going “home” and will be just up the road from all the people we are missing so much, today we are feeling much better again! So the guys arrived on the Wednesday, I had just finished nights that morning so managed to grab a couple of hours kip before driving out to the airport to pick them up. Alice [View Full Entry]

By Claire and Tel
June 15th 2009

The Cucumber Packer and The Knackered Nurse! Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Alice Springs

Thorny Devil
Cutest little critters ever!

How time flies eh?! 7 weeks without a Blog!….Sorry! Well we are both still alive and kicking, just! This working for a living deal is not really agreeing with us! Well after an hour wandering round town and a couple of interviews well more like chats really, Tel found himself with a choice of a couple of jobs. He’s been into the thought of doing something that pays him but with no real responsibility, well not the “peoples lives” variety of responsibility anyway! So he has landed himself a job as a cucumber packer, not really just cucumbers but that’s his [View Full Entry]

By Claire and Tel
April 26th 2009

Alice! Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Alice Springs

Windmill at Glendambo
Actually a wind pump

Meet Gloria, our gorgeous new neighbour. She lives on the bush outside and is an Australian Golden Orb Weaving spider. She's a pretty clever spider, her massive web is yellow colour to attract bees to it and she can change the darkness of her silk to suit local conditions. If the weather gets too windy, she can release some of the structure so the web doesn't get blown away. So that birds don't fly through it she's strung an extra few threads (about as thick as fishing line) in front of it and left some insect carcasses prominently on display to [View Full Entry]

By Claire and Tel
April 2nd 2009

A New Life Down Under!! Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne

View From Our Hotel Room In Melbourne
At 5am!

Well, we finally made it….We are back in Oz!! After much stress, collecting together a ton of papers and information, having x-rays, medicals, blood tests, police checks, paying out almost 1000 quid and waiting the longest 6 weeks of our lives, we were finally granted a visa to come and work and live here! We arrived in Melbourne on the 25th March and, as we landed after 9 in the evening, decided to stay the night in the city before making our way down to Koo Wee Rup the following morning to see Tony, Val and Beau. And for our reunion [View Full Entry]

By Claire and Tel
February 7th 2009

Waiting for Alice Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London » Crystal Palace

Squirrel playing hide and seek

Well, its probably time for another blog although we're not actually doing a lot of travelling at the moment. Hopefully we're soon going to be moving to Alice Springs to live for a while and at the moment we're catching up with friends and family in the UK while we wait to hear about jobs and visas. We're hoping to be off in a few weeks, and although we're going to have to work in Australia it will still feel very different to our old life working in the UK. One bit of travelling we did do was with Claire's best [View Full Entry]

By Claire and Tel
December 14th 2008

Suprise visit to Goa! Asia » India » Goa » Calangute

Toby!!
Our dog from when we stayed the season two years ago

Didn't want to mention in the last blog that the day after we arrived back in the UK from Hong Kong we were straight off again, this time back to Goa on a package deal for a couple of weeks. Didn't want to mention it because we were going over to suprise Giane and Babu, our friends that live there, just on the off chance that their internet connection decided to work and they read the blog and it forewarned them! Been a bit spoilt flying scheduled flights everywhere for the last three years, eleven hours cramped up on a charter [View Full Entry]

By Claire and Tel
November 28th 2008

Hong Kong with Mum Asia » Hong Kong » Hong Kong Island

Star Ferry

Not having spent a winter in the UK for a couple of years and struggling to reacclimatise to the cold and damp, we headed off to Hong Kong for a week to warm up! My mum Janet wanted to come away with us somewhere, hardly seeing us recently since we've been travelling for two and a half years, and after a bit of a debate we thought that Hong Kong would be somewhere that she would enjoy. It was to be her first experience of Asia, in fact her first trip outside Europe. We wanted to take her somewhere that was [View Full Entry]

By Claire and Tel
October 10th 2008

Back in Malaysia Asia » Malaysia » Terengganu » Perhentian Kecil

Claire, Anna and Tel

And so to Malaysia……….! We arrived in Malaysia on Wednesday evening and after a night sleeping over in Kuala Lumpur we took a short flight east to Kota Bharu and then a “speed” boat out to the Perinthian Islands. Our plan was to stay 2 or 3 days and then head south to some other islands down the coast…..hmmm…..well its 8 days later and we are still here! We are staying on Small Island (Pulau Kecil) on Coral Bay in a 30 ringget (4 pound) a night beach hut. We have our own bathroom and a good fan and step off [View Full Entry]

By Claire and Tel
September 30th 2008

Bye Bye Australia Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Gippsland

Echidna!

Well, the time has come. After nearly ten months, 31,047km, several hundred photos of tame parrots and nearly getting wiped out by road trains a couple of dozen times, its time for us to leave Oz. We're back at Tony and Vals in Koo Wee Rup packing our stuff up ready to be dropped at the airport in a few hours time. We'll stay in the motel there for the night and tomorrow fly out to Kuala Lumpur where we've got a choice of two onward flights to take, either south to Johor Bharu (near Singapore) or north to Kota Bharu [View Full Entry]

By Claire and Tel
September 2nd 2008

At last.....Sunshine!! Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

Big Bad Ned Kelly!

The road to Sydney is paved with many things….unfortunately none of them gold, but there you go! So our first stop was in a tiny town called Glenrowan. Now on paper this is not much more than a one horse town between Melbourne and Sydney, but throw into the equation the fact that it was the place where the infamous Ned Kelly was finally arrested on the 28th of June 1880 and it seems you have a licence to print money. Quite why this man is so famous for being the leader of a gang who robbed people and killed several, [View Full Entry]

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