Home At Last! What time time do you call this? Just thought I would check you out and see if you are still travelling. Having read the last blog it must be dead strange being back in England. At least you brought the weather. Look forward to seeing you both some time and it's good see you had such a great time and have arrived safely.
Welcome Back! Hi to you both, What an amazing adventure you have had. Would love to meet up sometime and have a natter about it all. Glad you are glad to be back. I always think the green of England is lovely when you have been away. I am seeing Suni for the theatre on Thursday and no doubt she will give us all your news. Hope you are both well and settling happily back into your home. Love Sue x
From Sue in UK Hi to you both, so glad you are enjoying your trip. It is bringing back many memories for me as I did the same trip as you. Did not make San Francisco which looks lovely. Enjoy the Grand Canyon as that was a highlight for me. Will look forward to meeting up and having a chat etc. when you get back to the UK. Take care and enjoy the rest of your trip. I have thoroughly enjoyed your blog. Love Sue xx p.s. had Marje and her mum over for supper last night and they are both well.
Wow and oh I have been found out! Hello you two, seems ages since I have written on your blog but it has taken that time to read it all!! I do hope that there is not a test at the end of this! Hum ... so now you have found out my secret, I didn't really work for that Insurance Company for years like I said, I confess, you employed a woman of disrepute! Well NZ sounds great, particularly the horse riding, do you think dear Pedro would fit in!? He is so lazy a four hour ride would probably kill him (and me!!) . Easter has come and gone, I have eaten too much chocolate, back at work this week to the normal organised chaos!! Must fly now, have a date with Mr. J. Sainsbury he is so accommodating! I will re-introduce you when you return, unless of course you arrange for a volcano to erupt to delay things!! Take care, loads of love xxxx
Reply to Terry and Frances in NZ Hi to you both. Your trip sounds just fantastic. NZ really is a very beautiful country. Enjoy America and Hollywood. I loved my trip there and hope that you get to Las Vegas. Disneyland for grown ups!! Have a brilliant time on the rest of your travels and I will look forward to catching up when you get back to the UK. Love Sue xxx
Thankyou very much for the birthday wishes. I had a lovely day. I have just got back from a weekend in Venice for a friends 40th. It was amazing, 4 girlies doing what we do best., shopping,drinking, laughing and chatting! I can't believe you will be home soon, it has gone so quickly. I have really enjoyed reading all your blogs. Safe journey to America and enjoy the rest of your travels. Lots of love Becca xxx
Reply to Terry and Frances in NZ Hi to you both, Your blog on NZ brought back many memories of my time living there. We sailed all around the Bay of Islands and spent many happy times in Russell. I loved that part of NZ and do sometimes still miss the sailing. You sound as if you are having such a fantastic time. I will look forward to seeing you and catching up when you return. I am now looking at planning my trip back to Oz and also to South Island NZ later this year and hope to go for a few months. Enjoy the rest of your trip. Keep in touch. Love Sue xxx
Fantastic! Hello, well Australia sounds great, very envious of your trip to see the dolphins, something I would love to see. Well its Saturday 13th March, 3.00pm a still dry day and boiling 10 degrees!!! Things are looking up! Danny has just returned from football after a bit of a defeat (just the 8-2)! and now he and Katie are now both playing(!) with much shouting basketball in the garden.... Most probably end in tears! Col has gone to Stamford Bridge.... can't remember whom they are playing (what kind of wife am I?) and its mothers day tomorrow, good I can really pampered!
Just to make you both laugh we had Ofsted in over the past couple of days! Don't you both miss that???!
I am very worried as I have a horrible feeling you two will not want to come home.....It will be very dull after this most amazing adventure perhaps we can re-design the garden to reflect every experience you have had!!! Should I start with feeding rats milk? or building a temple or two? Oh not forgetting Skippy! Think on it! Well better go, off to Sainsbury's now... something else I expect you miss!
Take care you two and no need to say have fun!!
Love all of us xxxxxxxx
guess who? I won't do all the apologies. suffice to say, i did get your email and, belatedly, your telephone message (new phone, didn't realise I had a message - you're about the only person in the Western world that uses landlines not mobiles). And now I've eventually cottoned on to your blogsite; dead clever me.
The starter at Heathrow and your egyptian experience is all I've done so far - sounds more like tooting car horns rather than Tutankhamun (I had to copy and paste the spelling - must make you two teachers cringe at my ignorance).
I'll get round to the rest of your adventures over the next few days but I'm sure you're both having a fantastic time. Keep flying the union jack. Speak soon.
Geoff
Like the elephants! Hello folks, I could feel the tension of the airport experience and the lost luggage, good job it was Terry's and not yours! (That was a bit mean of me!) Katie likes the big lizard she says it's cute, hope she does not want that as a pet! She says that you can get lizards in the aqua shop next to Sainsbury's ....... I would like the elephant, don't suppose they sell them in the aqua shop and I don't think Pedro would like it! Well survived a ghastly week at work, just poured myself a glass of wine aahhh. We have undertaken the horridness called homework so that is done and dusted for the weekend... it is Friday by the way as you have lost track of time! I am looking forward to the next instalment and katie likes the animal pictures, can't get much sense out of Danny everytime I mention you both he goes on about United. Hey ho, take care love from all of us xxx
Bangkok Well you can tell you are seasoned travellers, nothing seems to phase you now, if that had been me with the travel and baggage problems I wouldn't have coped half as well. It all seems very different this leg of your trip, not as much curry and not as intense visits as India. How are you coping clotheswise? Have you had to buy many things or have you been able to eek them out? Obviously you had to buy things when the suitcase went missing, a bit of a nailbiter that, luckily all turned out well but I bet it would have all been part of the great adventure if it hadn't turned up. Iwould have gone spare !!! We are all well here now we are out of our hillside prison[snow gone]. Hope the rest of your stay is calm and restful. Love to you bothxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Happy New Year We have been reading your blog entries and enjoying all the descriptions and photos. You are certainly experiencing local colour! Strikes seem to be very frequent in India.
We are due for heavy snowfall tonight so enjoy the sun.
Best wishes fir a happy 2010. Liz and Bob
Happy Christmas & New Year Hi Guys sounds like you are having an amazing time - can't wait for the next installment - see you when you get back Love Hils x
Christmas Catch Up Hi Yous Two. What an amazing document you are putting together and it all sounds fantastic. Terry, United's results have been pretty indifferent over the holiday period but everyone seems to be coming up against their proverbial banana skins. A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you both and may you the adventures keep coming so that we can keep reading about them. Ta ta for now, Phil and Aileen.
I HAVE EATEN TOO MUCH CHRISTMAS DINNER! Hello you two, well what an amazing time you are having, sorry you were not well, trust you are back to your old self now. Well here its been so hetic since I last wrote to you both, normal hetic as opposed to your incredible hetic life style!! Build up to Christmas, with a good dollop of snow, so a couple of days sledging with the kids ... I have bruises where you would not believe! and how come trees come out of nowhere when one is bombing down a slope?? We had great fun then it turned to ice and sludge which was not so much fun. See I am still so boring talking about the weather ...hee hee. Had a lovely Christmas, eat far too much, Danny got a table tennis table from Santa, thanks Santa this now dominates our front room and everyone has to play! (Fortunately ping-pong is fun!) Here, I have just noticed that this blog says "comment on Rajasthan" and all I have done is gone on about whats happening here... am I ruining the whole thing? Well I will add a comment on Rajasthan, mind blowing, incredible and a little bit scary well I am not brave am I? - have not got a passport at the moment! Anyway happy belated Christmas to you both, happy New Year, keep up the fantastic blogging, take care, Love us xxxx
india i got chased and knocked over by a running cow in fatephur sikri!!!!! i am so envious of your fab adventure!! merry xmas love mike jac tom and marmite x
Wow, it all sounds amazing but I be you can't wait to slow down a bit! Sorry you've been a bit poorly - think of the weight loss! Loving the Taj Mahal photo, but was hoping for a Princess Di on the bench one too - perhaps Terry did that pose? Especially impressed with the lovely henna tattoo - you might get a liking for it and have it etched in permanently!
All OKish here - we've been out of home while the bathroom is done - Rich will send an explanatory email soon. We've been staying at my mum's so can't complain.
We're thinking of you lots as Xmas approaches. Annabelle wants to know if you'll be home soon! Will you be available for skype at any point? don't worry if not. have a fabulous day. by the way, we have 3 guinea pigs!
lots of love
r,r,a and o xxx
Sounds as though you are having an amazing time! It is snowing here so feeling very Christmassy.....very different for you I'm sure. Wishing you lots more happy days and a very Mery Christmas from all of us. Becca, Lol, Katie and Owen xxxxxx
Holy Cow! Hi there, glad to hear that you have survived Northern India (especially the train!). I think that the driving description is pretty spot on. Enjoy your time in Southern India over Christmas and hope you continue to enjoy your ongoing adventure. Laura x
Hi there, hope you both are having a great time, Jack is now flying over you to England. Do you want anything bringing out when he returns in a month.
Sarah xx
chaos of delhi! i remember that overwhelming feeling of india, chaos and hecticness but soooo crazy and excititing!! and that feeling when you get hot water!! bliss like you say. i bet it is well cold there!! have ya had massalla dosa for breakie yet? has anyone offered you a bhang lassi yet?? sounds like your having a great time! keep us updated as it sounds brill :)
You are having far too much fun! Hello you two, I sent you a comment the other day but I put it as private by mistake so I don't know whether you will get it! Technology was never my thing! Anyway you will be delighted to know that we have had another foul day here weather wise, strong winds, heavy showers and hail, and hey ho work tomorrow! I have just read the bit about the read sea, sounds wonderful. Also glad that Danny's torch came in handy! Its getting on for 5pm here, Col and Dan are round at Col's brothers house watching footy, Katie is next door but one with her friend Rebecca and the house has fallen quiet.... hum... bliss so I thought I would take a couple of mins out to write before I tackle the preparation for the school week ahead. The thing is - do I dare peep inside their ruck sacks to see if they have indeed completed their homework as they said they have at this stage of Sunday afternoon? No I reckon I will check to see if I have a bottle of wine in the fridge for later. Far more sensible. Well better go now, keep up the blogging, take care, love us xxx
Downsbrook Year 4 Assembly - Egyptians! Hello you two, I have just read with envy your blog! However, Colin and I have had our own Egyptian experience this afternoon, with singing, dancing and powerpoint presentations on their findings about ancient Egypt and of course the ever talented (!) Katie O'Hara doing an Egyptian dance with the boys!! Hum..... great fun but not like the real thing. Well, the weather here is terrible, squally heavy showers which seem to be waiting everytime I pop my head out of the door, soggy pony and as Katie and Danny have been selected for football and netball teams at school I seem to be forever dashing from one Worthing school to another watching "sport" in fading gloomy light and gale force wind and rain!! Kids do not notice and are having great fun whilst Colin and I shiver on the side lines!! All is well here and we as usual soldier on ..... I am now slightly panicing about Christmas, lack of shopping as November marches into December!
Still I look forward to the shortest day, may even do a little shortest day dance in celebration (all on my own and in the dark of course!!) Still hooked on strictly come dancing, mind you I don't think that they have topped me and Lou's tango in the office. Hum now I must tackle Danny and Katie as its time for bed, they both seem to have gone very quiet as they do when its bed time. Well you two have fun, will be in touch again soon. Keep the blog up its fantastic.
Lots of Love from the O'Hara's xxxx
My wife and I are planning to go on a world trip in November for 6 months. This is to celebrate our sixtieth birthdays. We start on Frances and finish close to mine. We will be visiting Egypt, Northern India, Southern India, Singapore, Laos, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand and California before returning home. To be fair we won't be backpacking like most of the bloggers. We will be doing organised trips in each of the countries that we visit. Some of the trips are going to be a bit challenging and once we reach Australia we will be hiring a car and travelling with a bit more freedom. We want t... full info
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Home At Last! What time time do you call this?
Just thought I would check you out and see if you are still travelling. Having read the last blog it must be dead strange being back in England. At least you brought the weather. Look forward to seeing you both some time and it's good see you had such a great time and have arrived safely.