In the last two days my bike has imploded. Having had no punctures for 600 miles I've had four in 50 miles and a ripped tire. Coupled with the atrocious weather it's been a tad frustrating. Especially when a Brum, while nicking my milk, starts telling me that she doesn't understand why cyclists moan about the rain. Apparently it cools us off. Probably a bluenose. In a line from Cambridgeshire to Bristol I climbed seven county tops - Beds, Bucks, Herts, Wilts, Hants, Berks and Oxon. The last one - Milk Hill in Wiltshire - in a hailstorm. Was going to [View Full Entry]

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I can't believe we only have 4 days to go! We've spent years thinking about it, months deciding about it, and now we have both quit our jobs, sold our house and on the 6th January we fly out for a trip round the World. We've bought the rucksacks and plenty of travel gear, not too sure how i'm going to pack everything I need for 6 months! We fly first to India, then Singapore, Thailand, China, Australia, New Zealand and then the USA. We're hoping to use this blog site to keep in touch with friends and family back home [View Full Entry]

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I'm in the U.K and it's 2006. Hooray! So, I know I said "Africa", and I know that "Africa" is different than "England", but these things happen, bear with me, people say one thing and mean another; it happens. Fortunately for all concerned (i.e. the entire free world), I AM in fact heading to Africa, on Wednesday in fact, but I decided it was, one, cheaper, and two, more in keeping with the adventurous spirit of my plans, to get a one-way ticket to London and then fly to Africa from there. And so I got in touch with my good [View Full Entry]

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Well this is my first entry, with just over three weeks till we fly to sunny Bangkok. Firstly I explain where were going, who i'm going with and what stuff we've had to do to sort it all out. Our trip consists of 7 flights in total spread over at least 6 months, they are as follows: UK to Thailand to Cairns (to Sydney by land) to Auckland (to Christchurch by land) to Figi to LA to Newyork to UK and thats about it! Theres three of us going in total one good looking one (me) and two ugly bastards (Pearce [View Full Entry]

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Well last weekend I went to Bristol... saw the SS great britain woot woot.. and tooled around fort he rest of the day... I can;t begin to update this journal. I went to Rome it was fabulous.. Now Halloween is creeping up. I am heading into London to party hard with Diego and Compnay... Trying to figureo ut what I should be! if I should dress up at all... haha we'll see Anyways I wish I knew of a wicked club- I think I'll leave it to the boyz..... HALLOWEEN 2005 Im so stoked I can't even remember waht I did [View Full Entry]

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I spent the weekend in Bristol living a bit like a local and a bit like a tourist. First off, Ian drove me around the city to see all the important sights: Welsh Back - the neighbourhood by the docks where the Welsh ships used to come in to sell goods. Have you ever heard of “Ship Shape and Bristol Fashion”? It means to be neat and tidy and comes from the Bristol ships which had to have a certain shaped hull and had to bring in their sails in a certain manner in order to sail into the Bristol docks. [View Full Entry]

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So Myself, Leeza, Frenchy and Sammie all managed to get the same day off and headed to Bristol on a train for a day of Shopping and Drinking. It proved to be a funny day with Leeza and Frenchy being themselves and cracking us all up. We got to Bristol after an hour and a half on the train and thought we would catch the ferry along the canal to the city centre. We jumped on the ferry and was told to get off due to too many people and a bigger boat was on its way, so half an hour [View Full Entry]

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heya there, as you all know me and dozing m are trying to prepare for our amatrip around south america. and blimy we are going to miss you all so so much!! but not too much i mean you're all too jelous to admit that you are going to miss us but we are going to miss you. Did i mention that we will miss you?!? But packing, boy is that hard, what do we take what do we leave behinde? i want to take just about everything, and a spare and dom would be happy with a mosquito net, pair [View Full Entry]

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Many many weekends I ascended on the city of bristol. Met at the train station by Chris (who I met whilst working at Thames Hospital and became our temporary flatmate). Now living in Manchester, we stayed with Chris' parents. Bristol has a possibly extensive history (that I know nothing about). It looks pretty and stuff. The town centre is built on a hill - you get fantastic views of large stone buildings and church spires. No english town centre is complete without a statue of queen victoria and Bristol's is the scarriest that I have seen. With the IPOD plugged in [View Full Entry]

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We have been in the United Kingdom for over a month now and last week decided it was time to settle down and get a job (the NZ dollar does not go far over here, quite a shock to the system after South East Asia). But it has been great seeing some of the uk and being made so welcome by all of Sams family. Christmas was amazing, we now know why we sing about "dreaming of a white christmas" it snowed all day and in the beautiful scenary of the Lake District it was breath taking. We brought in 2005 [View Full Entry]

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