After a rather bumpy but otherwise uneventful ferry across the channel, Clancy once again hit French soil at Calais. It was mid afternoon and after a quick reintroduction to driving on the right, we managed to get a little lost getting through Calais and were on our way. That night we made it as far South as Cap-Griz-Nez and found a nice little local camp ground on the coast next to an old German gun emplacement. After here we headed South and inland to the historic Somme region, the home of the Western front during WW1. Here we visited the Canadian/Newfoundland [View Full Entry]

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After Wimbledon we set off the next day for the world famous Glastonbury Music and Arts festival. The festival takes place on a working dairy farm, a little way out of Glastonbury. The music spans over almost 4 days and multiple stages but the festival actually goes a day or so either side. It would have to be one of if not the largest music festival in the world. We arrived alongside the thousands of other people after several hours queing in traffic, for tickets and for inspections for glass. Finally got into the jam packed campervan area to be welcomed [View Full Entry]

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It seems like only a few days ago that mum announced her plans to travel to the UK and Europe....really that was about six months ago and time has gone very quickly. Mum arrived on the 15th and got herself up to Manchester on a bus. In true Fay style she hit the ground running and has not stopped since. Even the 24 hours or so on a plane then 6 hour bus ride was not enough to stop her from getting started on her European adventure. We visited the Manchester museum the day she arrived followed by a traditional British [View Full Entry]

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Well as we write this blog our time in Manchester is coming to an end. Considering all the other stuff we have done we have been pretty boring in Manchester. We haven’t really done the place justice I guess but hey we have been desperately trying to save.. oh and also see the rest of the North of Britain to boot. We have been living in kind of hospital flats which are really student accommodation that the Radiology department owns. It’s not the cheapest, but it is pretty nice and we are both close to work, especially Jason, who has [View Full Entry]

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This weekend was supposed to be Kirstyn’s weekend of crazy things she’s never done (now she’s 30 and getting old) but the Adrenaline Gods had other ideas. We did the usual trick and took off straight after work, first stop, the Tacky-a-rama of Blackpool. The main reason, the tallest and fastest roller coaster in Europe is there, and Kirst has never been on any roller coaster! (I was shocked too when I found this out). By the time we got there by 8pm, it was last ride and our plans had been destroyed. We had to settle for the run down [View Full Entry]

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Our first adventure down to big old London town, was for the most part, for the belated celebration of Karen’s birthday. We also managed to time the trip to catch up with Kirstyn’s Aunty Val. Catching the bus straight after work seemed like a good idea at the time but after the 4-5 hours on the bus, sitting apart, we were glad to arrive. We caught the tube and train out to Karen’s hospital room where we managed to cram into her small single room (a true Aussie dossing experience). The next day we headed into town to meet up [View Full Entry]

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May day long weekend we decided to venture back to Scotland to spend a bit more time next to one of the many Lochs. We left on the Friday night straight after work and hit the M6 most of the way to Glasgow before sleeping at a services stop. Awoke early with the sun and after a quick brekkie, we headed into Glasgow for a better look around than our very brief visit at xmas time. Wandered around Finnieston Quays taking in the sites of ‘The Armadillo’ (Glasgow’s answer to the Opera house) and the Science Centre. We then ventured [View Full Entry]

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Well we didn’t get a white Christmas but we DID get a white easter! We spent the easter weekend up in the Lakes District….lots of fun even if the weather was a little cold. The first night was extremely windy and we wondered if Clancy would stay upright but she made it through - not like the piles of broken tents in the camping ground the next morning. The following nights were a little calmer and we were amazed to wake up to snow on the second morning. We spent one day following a mountain bike trail that we had found [View Full Entry]

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Our last few days in Caerphilly unfortunately have left us with a bad taste….we arrived home to Caerphilly to find that some intellectually challenged nobs had slashed all four tyres on Kit! (Kit is/was our beloved Volvo sports car!?see earlier blog) It wasn’t worth paying to get new tyres so ended up having to give her away to a group of local bums (probably the same guys who slashed her tyres). A very sad farewell indeed. Never mind, it could have happened anywhere. We spent a few days packing up our room in Caerphilly before heading off for the next chapter [View Full Entry]

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We boarded the train in Ulaanbataar at a somewhat sensible hour for a change at 8pm. We were kindly escorted right to our beds by a very friendly guy whom we were extremely suspicious of until he just left without asking for anything! Love Mongolia! We settled in for the journey to the Chinese border, our carriage somewhat flash with a small TV. We received a vacuum packed dinner which resulted in us losing our carefully planned souvenier Mongolian togrogs to the providonista, well we think this is why she demanded money from us, even though we thought we had meal [View Full Entry]

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