Blogs from Sale, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom, Europe

I can't quite believe it’s been almost 2 years since we returned home after our 27 month trip around the world which we liked to think of as our honeymoon (although we're not sure how many other newlyweds end up in bunk-bedded dorms on their honeymoon!) This isn't a traditional ‘travelblog’ in the sense that it doesn’t really involve us visiting anywhere new and exciting. Where do we start? Well, we rented our house out whilst we were away and, when we returned, our tenants wanted to stay on a couple more months. This suited us pretty well giving us time to find jobs and start to fill up our much drained bank account. Mark's sister and her husband kindly offered to put us up for a few weeks in their home in the beautiful Peak ... read more

Click Clock?............yes thats the sound of my countdown and yes D-Day is getting closer day by day. At the moment its 25 working days to go and 70 days till i hop on an American airlines flight to my first stop NYC......so excited to see the big apple:) So i joined this site called Couchsurfing back in March and the crux of this site is to make this world smaller and help out fellow travelers and so i was thinking i might need to hostel it in NYC, as i kept getting turn downs from NYC Couch Surfers or CSer's as i call em. Well now i have 5 offers and not sure who to choose yet, but looks like i will get to meet some cool people and see lots of stuff in NYC...yippeee. So ... read more

Well 105 days till i leave the UK and head out on the road/air/sea and anything else transport runs on/in or through..........lol. Well i managed to find the travel clinic on Wednesday and left £45 worse off and a saw arm in tow.....lmao, as im traveling so widely it was suggested and not advised as such to possibly have the rabies injection. Well its £45 per injection and three are needed and it does not prevent rabies and it only buys you time to the hospital, but then when you are the is no cure for rabies...........so it seems pretty pointless. I was suggested to take Doxycycline which is one of many anti malarial drugs, but pretty cheap compared to some like marrolone and my girlfriend was suggested marrolone. Anti malarial's work in different doses depending ... read more

Time again for an update on my impending Trip/Tour of a substantial part of the world:).......... so on Thursday i went to the health center to discover what injections i would need and what malaria tablets i would require. So left early for my 5.30pm appointment and got the early and did not get to see the nurse till gone 6pm..............so going really well already and then it turns out i can have a hepatitis A booster ( Had my first Hepatitis injection before my trip to Thailand in January) this booster gives me protection for 10 years and then a Hepatitis B injection ( i need two more boosters before i go), the nurse then advised i would need to check online at the likes ofFitForTravel and check what other injections i would need, as ... read more