Blogs from West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 36

OK, it's starting to feel like that week before Christmas when the excitement is bubbling under the surface but it still seems like there is so much to do... We've both got another 5 days at work. (For me that equates to about 40 hours, 30 'klix' black coffees, 10 laboreous bus rides and about 150 muttered expletives.) No matter how much I read and look at photos, I can't imagine what awaits us when we arrive. This adds to combined feeling of excitement and panic. This time next week we will be wearily finding our feet in Lima, beers in hand, celebrating the beginnings of our trip. Can't wait! Key Points to remember: Excitement Anticipation 5 days at work :( Lots to do TTFN ... read more

(Bronia typing) Here is our Itinerary - planned as much as we can to give structure and a general direction, but still giving flexibility for us to change our minds about the length of time we spend in any one place. This framework of dates is based on pre-booked key flights (bold text) that we have booked and our idea of how long we want to spend in any one place. The rest however could change as we go along. Where we refer to a flight that is not in bold text, it means is not booked yet. We start our trip in the Year 2006 * 30 Jan -- Train from Birmingham to Heathrow. FLY Heathrow 20:40hrs to Delhi arriving at 10:30am * -- Visit areas surrounding Delhi (ie. Taj Mahal), then go eastwards ... read more

Return to Brum I went to Birmingham for the weekend to catch up with my old workmates and housemates. I flew in on Friday evening and met up with Dave, Chris, Bob & Mitch in the Briar Rose. Later we walked to Broad Street to have a curry and then back to the city centre to Red for our cheese course. We were slightly disappointed with Red as it had turned into more of a club than a late bar venue. There was a new dj box and a guy playing the bongos (not that you could hear him over the music). We stayed for a drink and then decided it was time we retired for the night. I caught a taxi back to Stafford with Dave. Dave thought he'd forgotten his keys so we had ... read more

Well somehow i've managed to brave the steam driven 56k modem and the speedy p100 to bring you this blog - which i'm sure you'll either love (thanks mum) or hate (cheers everyone else). At the moment we are still trying to sort out all kinds of things which we really should have looked into a long time ago - still i guess thats pretty much the norm.....hmm. Anyway we've had the jabs and got the tabs (malaria), spent a hilarious day (the first of many i assume) in London, q-ing to get into another q etc, trying to get all of the visas sorted (anyone wanting the definition of opposites simply vist the New Zealand embassy and then the India one). I suppose reasonably soon we should start to think about where we might actually ... read more

Well, this is my first entry into travelblog, hopefully it will work. At the moment I'm laid up on the sofa at home with a gammy knee and a cold. It's less than two weeks now until I am due to leave, I'm not worried about the cold, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the knee will have recovered in time - word of advice to anyone wanting to go travel the world, don't have your knee operated on just weeks before you're due to go. As long as it doesn't stop me from taking advantage of the plethora of winter activities... Anyway, I'm not sure how this thing works, or how updates get sent to people that I actually want to read it, so I'm not going to write any more in case in ... read more