Blogs from Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Dear All Greetings from London. We have just had a lovely, three-day Bank Holiday weekend at the beginning of May, and I took advantage of having the extra day by completing something that I started probably over three years ago now. I completed “Walk 4” in my 1998 book “Country Walks Around London” – yay! I bought this book second-hand from an Amnesty International Second-Hand bookshop in Hammersmith, probably over 10 years ago now. Although it was published in 1998, the “Country Walks Around London” has served me well over the years in following slowly but surely its 26 listed walks in surprisingly beautiful rural areas all around the city limits of London – I am now halfway through the book, having completed 13 walks, with 13 left to go. The walks vary in length from ... read more

Day 142 - Seattle, WA - New York, NY We had an early start to catch our plane at 7.15am. It was a fairly stress-free flight but it did take 5 hours to travel the width of America! We arrived at 4pm NYC time and caught a taxi to our hotel. The taxi drive was pretty crazy and we both felt very sick....the taxi driver did not get a tip and Rob justified it with "well it was s*** driving and s*** music!". Luckily he did not drive away with our bags. The hotel is very basic but is in a very good location in Midtown. We dumped our bags and went straight off in search for New York pizza as we were starving. We headed towards Times Square and found a good little independent shop ... read more

Day 127 - Ouray, CO - Arkansas River, CO We got up nice and early so we could do a cooked breakfast. I took the reigns in the kitchen as no-one else seemed to want to take responsibility for running the skillet so I cooked up a feast of fried eggs and bacon. After a scrumptious breaky we headed over to Box Canyon falls for a short walk up and down a spectacular, unique glacial waterfall. We then headed across town to do a longer 5 mile walk on The Beer Creek Trail up to an old mine. The initial climb was pretty tough as we started at nearly 2000m above sea level but once we were up the views were beautiful with the valley, snowy mountain tops and waterfalls to take in. We stopped ... read more

Day 120 - Las Vegas We were not meeting the tour until early evening so we used the last day in our hotel to gym, swim and wash! We also had sneaky burger from a burger joint we had been eying up on the strip for lunch which was yummy but the bread (as always) was a bit funky. We went to meet the group at 7 ish and we headed straight to dinner. On initial impressions the group all seemed really nice, with a good mix of Nationalities including Italians, Korean and Australians. The tour guide is friendly but also looks like a typical hardcore camper with full face of hair etc and he seemed a bit useless at organising things (my pet hate!). We had a nice dinner at an American style Italian restaurant ... read more

Hello All Only 5 weeks to go and we'll be leaving our 9 to 5 jobs behind and greeting sun kissed thai beaches and beginning our 4 month trek around the globe. Have begun to look at hostels in Bangkok, found a really nice place with "grotty rooms and no air con" but decided we might go a little more upmarket than that. Keep you all posted ... read more