Blogs from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

This is my first attempt at a travel blog so here goes! Having spent the last 2 weeks feeling rather sick at the uncertainty of the Virgins Pilot strike threat, I went back to my crazy super excited self yesterday when the strike was called off! Yay, we will be going to WDW in 3 weeks! Our Disney reservation came in the post yday and also our 2 day Universal ressie. We have: Deluxe Disney Dining Plan -CHECK 3 week Disney Ultimate tickets - CHECK 2 park Universal tickets -CHECK Seaworld tickets -CHECK Passport -CHECK Passport photocopies -CHECK ESTAS -CHE... read more

In advance of departure we have set up a blog for interested parties to follow our trip. Its address is - www.mytb.org/Le-Grande-Tour Hopefully you will be able to follow our progress and share this once in a lifetime trip with us. ... read more

Today is not very nice. We woke up to find it raining and very grey and cool. Originally we were going to go shopping at Tesco and the various stores around the Reebok Stadium precinct but decided to head off straight to Huddersfield instead. We travelled over the M62 in pouring rain. During this part of the trip we actually crossed the highest motorway in the UK at Saddleworth Moor. A high point in a crap day. We carried to Huddersfield and I took the wrong exit for the second time in two days. Such is life. Anyway, we went for a round about drive and ended up at Robin’s place eventually. Strangely enough, we went through the town that we were having dinner at later that evening - not that we knew that at the ... read more

OK, so I lied a bit in the description, and I am writing something here before I go. Just thought I'd make sure this thing all works properly before heading off. Fail to prepare and prepare to fail and all that. With that said, I do feel hideously unprepared considering that next Monday I leave the country for the best part of a year. There still feels like a million and one things that I need to buy/do and not nearly enough time to do them. Including getting a new Ipod. Sadly, the battery life of my trusty old warhorse is now around 1 hour. Considering some of the bus journeys around South America can be upto 20 hours, I don't quite think it will hack it. And then there are other little important things like ... read more

Hi Sam, Ian, Maggie, Jo, Sharon, Vince and all at Mecca Oldham - These last few weeks have been difficult, working out of Wakefield (no offence to the Wakefield team I'm sure they know). Going through the smoking ban without you, but I was thinking of you anyway .... Just to let you know - my dogtag is still in place - I'm Mecca Oldham branded through and through - BUT - I will have to remove all jewellery when I get over there, even my silver chain necklace that hasn't left my neck properly since I was 12 - but I have a plan ! I'll keep my necklace with my dogtag threaded through a belt tag on my trousers / shorts - so you'll always be with me ! And of course I'll always ... read more