For Christmas I asked for travel aids which would help me save a bit of cash for the rest of the trip rucksack, sleeping bag, pillow etc. All in all it went very well and could possibly be the only part of this whole thing that goes to plan. All the travel items I received were exactly what I wanted so Thank you to all who helped with this. The end of the day saw wine and beer being drunk and my dad even offering to break out his 40 year old bottles of whiskey which have sat in some dusty old corner for the last 40 years.... read more

Today saw the coming together of a plan which has been hiding under a pile of engineering text books, beer and Fifa playing for the last 2 years. We finally booked our travels. This is a blog of me and my good friend Buggs travelling experiences from the start of our trip (which I see as today) to the very end when we will be beaten and bloodied by lack of tea, Jaffa cakes and that awful whine you get in your ear when your fed up of somebody talking for 3 months. So about me then, I don’t really go on holiday in fact I only got my passport in 2011 and that saw me take a trip to Ibiza which turns out is about as English as England. Now of course, I am undertaking ... read more