karenbrad

Hello I'm back! Hi everyone! I was going to leave the blog where it is but somehow I felt you all were needing an update. Well it's been nearly six months since my return, where did that time fly? It took me a while to adjust to normality and settle back into being home but I now feel like things have kind of settled down. My first few weeks were spent catching up with everyone, friends, family and a few trips up and down from Kent to Watford. I went back into work which was lovely to see everyone but quite strange to be there. It has been so nice to see everyone and hear what has happened in everyone else's lives over the time I have been away. I still haven't totally caught up ... read more

Six days of me me me!!! I've had such an amazing time since I've been away and part of all that enjoyment has included all the things we love that can also be bad for us. I've eaten some wonderful foods, spicy foods and hot foods, I ate a meal of just prawns and bird's eye chillies in Thailand! I've eaten exactly what I've wanted, loved most of it and eaten so, so many carbohydrates. Often I've eaten what I've been given, remember the potatoes in Guatemala?! Of course there has been the odd tipple, tequila nights in Guatemala, a few cocktails and a little wine along the way. As for any kind of exercise regime it's really hard to do anything regular whilst your traveling. I've been active, just not gone out of my ... read more

Ten days across the Nullarbor and much further in mind..... As we set out on the Nullarbor Tour on the morning of 24th December 2008 I felt excited and a little nervous, kind of how you do when setting out on a school trip. We boarded our bus, Jo, Sharon, and myself to start our trip going from Adelaide to Perth with thirteen others in a minibus. Our tour guide, Leith from Adelaide was a really great guy, informative, laid back (well he is Australian) full of life and must of been shattered as he did all the driving as well as keep all of us in order. This can be easier said than done when you have an over excitable Spaniard on board who jumps off the end of a jetty into an ocean ... read more

A Brief Run Around Melbourne Arriving pretty tired on the overnight train from Sydney (which incidentally I thought was really good value and a great way to get here) I trundled up the road to my next hotel. At this point all I really wanted to do was hop into bed and have a snooze but as I was only here for a couple of days a shower was all it took to get me out on the road and exploring the streets of Melbourne. I walked around some of the more quirky streets first, Smith street and Brunswick and had a spot of lunch. I saw some fantastic architectural buildings and sat for a while in Fitzroy Gardens enjoying the sunshine and the rest. In the park was Cook's Cottage, it was built and ... read more

A Week In Hong Kong Well we made it to Hong Kong. After a few hours on a bus, a boat journey to the island of Langkawi and then a flight to Kuala Lumpur we were then in Malaysia. Our flight to Hong Kong wasn't until the following morning and without anywhere to stay, (the room we had booked into was just for transit passengers so we were not allowed to stay there) and the airport hotel being two hundred pounds a night we had no choice but to order a bottle of wine and eat cheese and biscuits in the posh airport lounge. A couple of bottles and four hours later we finally boarded our plane. We got the airport express train from the airport to Hong Kong Island where home was a friend ... read more