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Published: July 3rd 2011May 8th 2011
The Royal Wedding...
...or it?? Yes, superficially it looks like Kate and Wills...but on closer inspection it's two beheaded Bratz figures with eggs for heads! Combining the glitz of the royal wedding with the seasonality of Easter. Well done to my niece, Sara!
We left Saigon and landed in Heathrow...and then got straight on a National Express bus for a day-long journey almost the full length of England up to County Durham. By that evening I was standing in the fish and chip shop ordering some homely English fare with Vietnam seeming a very long way away (which, of course, it is!).
We spent the next week with my family then headed to Leeds to meet a new friend - Logan! Mark and Helen's son. Then it was on to Kate's family and a weekend trip to Center Parcs. Which was cool! See pics.....
Now we're back 'home' in Vietnam. Thanks for having us and see you at Christmas!!
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It started in November 2006, when we quit our jobs, rented out our house, sold our belongings and set off in search of adventure in South East Asia.
Backpacking around SE Asia followed, along with working with elephants in Pattaya, a TEFL course in Thailand, teaching in Bangkok, Madrid, Bournemouth....
"Where next?" you might ask.
Well, the pull of the East was too great, so we hot-footed back to Thailand, and then onto Vietnam.
We spent a year teaching in a language centre in Haiphong in the North of Vietnam. Then we went searching for the bright lights o... full info
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Me and Kate
In a pub in Wingate
Me and my sis
In a pub in Wingate
Me, my mam and dad
On our way to the beach in Crimdon. Yes. This is north east England, by the North Sea in April!
The err...slightly dark sands of home
Crimdon Beach. Near Hartlepool.
Bob and Barney
frolicking in the surf
Dad, mam and the dogs
Apparently watching a UFO. or a stick. You decide.
Lucky!
Holding his own in the battle for the stick.
The boys are back in town..
Class of 95. Easington Comp's finest. Hicksy, Jonny, me and Barker.
Mark greeting us in Leeds
He donned his finest headgear.
The Allens
Mark and Helen and Logan the laddy. Also in his finest headwear.
Phil and Lisa
..do battle
Phil and Mark
...do battle (I think.)
Phil and Mark
in all the positions.
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Donna and Neil
Donna and Neil
Crimdon's looking good nowadays!
Neil remembers when the beach there was so black that the sand looked almost like pure coal! At least it looks like the weather was nice for you and we are very jealous you had fish and chips!
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