For Wayne’s birthday I booked us a trip to Rome. We flew with Ryan Air from Stansted to Rome Ciampino Airport. The flight was just over 2 hours and went smoothly. We arrived in Rome late Friday morning, checked into our hotel and changed before heading out for some lunch and over to the Colosseum. We had a lovely meal of pasta and pizza. We had miscalculated the location of our hotel so ended up in the wrong part of Rome so grabbed a Taxi to the Colosseum. We booked onto a group tour and waited for a few minutes before [View Full Entry]

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For Wayne's 40th Birthday we took a few days off work together. I had got Wayne a trial flight from Earls Colne. We flew all over Essex, past my office, over our house, out to Bradwell and along the coast turning down the Stour to Manningtree. Wayne flew a lot of the way, and really enjoyed himself - enough that he is thinking of taking up lessons. On Saturday we continued our adventure in Ashford, Kent at Landrover Experience. We both drove around the off road track in the Range Rover Sport. It was scary but great fun. We're going to [View Full Entry]

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This year we headed to the Isles of Scilly in June. Wayne and I left home early on Friday morning, stopping for breakfast en-route. We visited Lauceston, Romstormel and St Mawes Castles in Cornwall before getting to our B and B in Penzance. The Scillonion the following day was fairly busy, but the crossing was calm and trouble free. We arrived in the Islands and found our house, over the hill and far away - well about 15 minutes from the harbour. We stayed at Gunners Flat with Clem and Tony. It was a great 3 bed flat with good sized [View Full Entry]

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A group of 4 bikes and a mini rode/drove to the Isle of Wight on Friday morning to spend the bank holiday weekend on the island. We drove all over the island, taking in the beautiful views, riding the chair lift to the beach, visiting the bike and car shows and generally having a laugh. It was tiring but great fun. Suzanne and Jan both went Pillion with Wayne and Chris all around the island. I managed to keep up with the boys most of the time, and my new bike rode really well. [View Full Entry]

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Hazel a friend of Wayne's invited me to join her on her hen do. A group of girls headed to town to see Mamma Mia, have cocktails and a lovely dinner. It was a fantastic day out, we drank lots and had a good laugh. It was lovely to meet such a nice, friendly group of girls. A couple of weeks later it was the wedding. We had booked to stay the night, which was brilliant. We checked in, had lunch, changed and headed to the church. The ceremony was very moving, Hazel looked beautiful and Andy couldn't stop smiling. The [View Full Entry]

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My birthday itself was a lovely sunny day, lunch at the pub with the guys from work was good fun, however perhaps I should have eaten less. Wayne took me out to dinner and I struggled to eat all my food. Still it was a lovely evening at the Waterfront. The best birthday treat was at the weekend. Wayne took me via Eurostar to Paris. It was brilliant, the train was a great way to travel, our hotel was fabulous. We walked our feet raw looking at all the sights. Had dinner at the Moulin Rouge which was amazing. Despite the [View Full Entry]

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For my pre Birthday celebrations I decided to hold a Murder Mystery. Everyone really pulled out the stops with the costumes, and the evening was a great laugh. The food went down well which was a relief, and I think everyone had a fun night. [View Full Entry]

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We had our last 3 nights at a luxury spa resort in the town of Patong. Our days were spent by the swimming pool in the shade relaxing, at night we hit the town. Madness met us. Lots of people selling stuff, Lady Boys, gogo shows everywhere. We explored a bit before hiding back in our hotel. We visitied the tailor where I had a dress and some shirts made up. Very interesting experience. We had a 3 hour spa treatment, which involved sitting in a milky jucuzzi, being covered in goo, massage and facial. It was an unusual but fairly [View Full Entry]

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After a bit of uncertainty we were picked up by Island Hoppers and headed to the boat. We started off on a sandy island in the sun, where we snorkled and got sunburn. We then headed on to Yao Yao where we were stopping for the night. Beautiful white beaches, sea canoe and snorkelling were on offer and we had it to ourselves for a bit! We stayed in a hut which was ok despite the double bed! We toured the island visiting the village, seeing the Thai boxing stadium, monkey's working at coconut collection and rubber plantation. The next day [View Full Entry]

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We woke up a bit later as our pick up was at 8.30am. Sea Bees picked us up and took us over to the dive centre and then onto the boat. It was a nice sized hard boat, our kit was ready for us to kit up before we went up for some breakfast. Fried Egg sandwich (good but not covent garden market good!) Our first dive started off over sand, YAWN, but as we got to the rocky area improved, lots of soft corals, an octopus, fish, nudibrancs, and staghorn corals. Our second dive was a potential Manta dive, but [View Full Entry]

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