Blogs from Northallerton, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Let’s get back in the game… What a lovely time in Richmond! Two whole days off in an amazing farm house (Galloways House at Tunstall Road Farm). So what to do with ourselves? We had no idea until Mandy and Skyla pointed it out to us, that what we really needed to do was head back into Richmond and walk with them around every single ladies clothing shop - how could we have missed that? Just over 15,000 steps on our first day off!! The highlight of the day though was Ellis going for a swim in the Swale. Pretty sure it was to rejuvenate his muscles, just like elite athletes who have an ice bath. He enjoyed himself, even though he was the only person mad enough to go in to the cold water. Lovely ... read more

We are (just about...sort of...possibly) ready to go. Give or take a bit of travel insurance and the small issue of currency. Well ready or not, we leave on saturday and have put together an idea of an itinerary. So, to give people who might be interested an idea of where we will be and when, and also to check this thing works before we try and figure it out in a baking hot internet cafe somewhere in laos here it is.... 13th June - Arrive KL @ 1.50 pm, go to radius international hotel 17th June - Fly to vientiane, Laos at 3.10 pm, arrive 4.45 pm. Spend 3 night in vientiane 20th June - Bus to Luang Prabang, spend 3 nights in Luang Prabang 24th June - overnight Bus to Hanoi, Vietnam 25th June ... read more