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