Saturday September 9th, 2006 Day 23 Mallorca, Spain I slept in this morning and let Parky and Simi do the bakery run. We spent a lot of the day either laying by the pool or swimming in the pool. The boys did decide though that it would be fun to jump off the back cliff and into the water. I couldn't bring myself to do it. We also took a walk into Santa Ponça to check out the markets we saw advertised as part of the Annual Grand Fiesta. The main things happen over the next few days but for now we'd settle for all the bizarre stuff they were selling at the street market stalls. After a stroll around and a very long walk back to the villa in the heat we decided to take ... read more

Wednesday September 6th, 2006 Day 20 Mallorca, Spain The day started off the early. To try and beat the heat, Parky had gone early to the bakery so when we got up breakfast was sorted. Handy. After this, we jumped in a taxi and headed into Santa Ponça to the marina. Adam's dad had left the boat with not much petrol so firstly we had to fill that up. After waiting about 20minutes for another big boat to finish filling up we were on our way. We went east around the coastline and ended up in a big lagoon-like area where we were able to anchor and swim to shore. There was a little restaurant there too so we had some lunch too. We found an advantage to Australian money being plastic as when we pulled ... read more

Monday September 4th, 2006 Day 18 Guildford, England to Mallorca, Spain As it turned out, we didn't get much sleep as we had to be up at about 2:30am to get ready. Chris' mum was nice enough to drive us all the way out to Gatwick Airport (which I'm sure seemed to take longer than it actually did). We arrived at the airport at 3:30am, before check-in even opened, and before the other boys got there. So we sat there waiting, talking about random topics (as we had a habit of doing) making sure we didn't leave our bags unattended OR "they would be removed and destroyed" according to the recording that kept being repeated over the loud speaker. The boys arrived about 25minutes later and we were able to check-in by this time. We then ... read more

Saturday September 2nd, 2006 Day 16 London to Guildford, England I was able to sleep-in a bit today, it was raining again so I decided to stay in bed a bit longer. Nick had taken the day off work so we decided to take a trip out to see the Cutty Sark and the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. So we jumped on the tube and made our way out there. On our way to check out the Cutty Sark first we stopped off at some market stalls. They weren't very impressive because it was early and they were still setting up so we moved on and around the corner to the Cutty Sark. The Cutty Sark was built in 1896 and was one of the last sailing clippers to be built, and it is the only ... read more

Thursday August 31st, 2006 Day 14 London, England Today I left a bit later, at about 10:00am, and made my way to Camden Market for a browse. I bought a few things then made my way on the tube to Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum. I spent just under 3hours in here and I was on my own. I can't imagine how long you'd spend in here if you had someone else with you to take photos with. It cost me £27 to get in but was well worth every penny, and I got to skip the line, otherwise it would have been about an hour to get in. After getting my photo with Robbie Williams and The Beatles I decided to go and do a tour of The Tower of London. This was really cool as ... read more