Not long til Christmas now! On Christmas Eve I will be venturing over to Chester for Christmas returning on Boxing Day. I'm hoping that I will be able to escape work as early as possible so that it's not too late when I arrive. Becky is going up on Saturday 21st by Plane (how the other half live!). It will be lovely to relax for a few days eating ourselves silly, drinking and being merry. At New Years Eve I have my last gig for the amazing Unlawfully Yours. That right, after 10 months and 40 gigs of playing Classic Rock Covers we go out with a bang playing New Years Eve. It will be a really good gig hopefully because Mum, Dad, Erica, Beck, Jack and hopefully Becky will all be there so seeing New Years in will be brilliant. After Christmas and New Year I have from Thurs 3rd to Sunday 13th off which after all the Christmas rush will be really nice. The plan so far is that on the Monday and Tuesday we will be in York, Wednesday and Thursday will be in Manchester and the Friday in Cambridge. I will update on here with the happenings once we return. I have also booked another night in London too. It will be such great fun. I rarely ever tend to go to many places in this country, and there's so many amazing places it will be really awesome.
Other news is that I treated myself to a Tom Tom for our "Main" Adventure. He/She/It is yet to be named so as soon as He/She/It has been you will be the first to know. That will keep you reading this I know! The main reason for the splashing out on the Tom Tom was that I have finally got round to passing my Diploma! I was so relieved. It now means that I can feel more relaxed about going travelling knowing I always have that which will help me for when I come back. It also means that I am know as qualified as Becky too! Not that I was jealous(!) Infact, I passed the CITIP (what does that stand for I hear you say? Well it's the Certificate in Information Technology for Insurance Professionals don't you know.)
Off to bed now, so I suppose Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year as I will post in the New Year!
X
Monday, 17 December 2007
Saturday, 17 November 2007
Sawasdee-Krup
Picture this. It's 10.30pm the night before you fly out. You are finishing packing your suitcase, look at your passport and realise that it expires in January 2008. For some reason I had a feeling that at least 6 months was needed on your passport. You could say I began to almost ruin my shorts. After being on the phone to the Embassy of Thailand, and listening to the £1.50 per minute marathon message on the governments passport machine, the only option that I had was to go to London in the morning that we were due to fly out and arrange for a passport to be made. I had a 10.15am appointment and it was guaranteed to be ready in 4 hours. We still had to get from Victoria to Heathrow Terminal 3 and our flight was at 4.00pm. I was somewhat nervous, but thanks to getting the passport within about 2 hours, we got to Heathrow at 1.00pm and made the flight! Anyway....the holiday.....
Absolutely AWESOME!!! Ariving at our Hotel in Bangkok was such a relief and sitting in the taxi pulling up to the hotel was a very strange experience. Never being anywhere in Asia before, although hearing other stories and knowing bits and pieces, I had no real expectations. It was kind of like we were dropped into a TV show. For some reason I didn't expect so many Thai people, and thought that there would be more tourists. Walking past all the market stalls by the side of the road, the heat, the people it was all brilliant. Everyone was so friendly, something that takes a bit of getting used to being in England!
After 3 nights in Bangkok, we headed south to Koh Chang for 8 nights. As soon as we got to this place, I couldn't stop grinning. We got there at about 4.00pm and after getting to our room we hit the pool bar for Happy Hour, layed on a sun bed and watched the sun go down. This place was heaven.
We spent 8 awesome nights at this place and every morning we woke up and drew back the curtains we saw this view...
I think another AWESOME is needed here! After a lot of chilling, eating, drinking, massaging, elephant trekking, snorkelling and canoeing we begrudgingly had to say good-bye to Koh Chang. It wasn't all doom and gloom tho. We had another 3 nights left in Bangkok, and decided that this time we would make the most of our time and tried to do as much as possible.
We spent a day checking out a bit of culture by doing a river boat crusise and stopping off along the way looking at the Grand Palace and Wat Pho. Then had a meal at the 61st Floor Vertigo Grill Bar in the lovely Banyan Tree Hotel. Spent the next day in the MBK centre and spending the last Bahts we had remaining as we knew we were going to the Acquarium in the Siam Paragon Centre.
It was sad to say good-bye to Thailand but am definate that it is a place to return to in the future.
Kop Koon Krup.
X
Sunday, 30 September 2007
The bits missed out...
Righty-ho, as well as the big Europe adventure, there is much more lined up before hand that I forgot about which definitely deserves a mention.
In 30 days (I think Becky has been counting down since 730 days!) we are off to Thailand for two weeks. The plan is that we have 3 days in Bangkok, then move south to Koh Chang for 8 days, then back up to Bangkok for a further 3 days. Depending on how things go whilst we're there, we may venture over to Cambodia as Koh Chang isn't too far away, but I think we'll decide that when we're over there. There's a little map below so you can see...
Over the festive period (being Christmas) Sue, Beck and Jack are coming over to England from Australia so I have just over a week off work and will be going around the touristy places of England. Nothing is set in stone yet as to where, but it will be pretty awesome.
Sometime when the weather gets all nice myself, my Dad and Uncle are planning a mammoth adventure on our Push Bikes. The plan is to go from Lands End to John O Groats over two weeks. We figure it will be something like 900-1000 miles. Originally we were going to stay in B&B's and Hostels, but it looks like there may be a bit of a back-up team consisting of Mum and Becky travelling in the van and pitching up at camp sites so we meet them when they have got our cold beers ready. As it's a pretty big trip, I'm sure that some sponsorship for charity will have to be arranged so I will post stuff on here when there is more news.
The next event prior to the big tour is a long weekend on a couple of Barges in celebration of Grandad entering his 7th decade! Argh me hearties. It should be a really fun weekend and am really looking forward to it. Full steam ahead!
So, not many pictures this time and quite wordy, but I'll try hardest for the next post..
Bye for now. X
In 30 days (I think Becky has been counting down since 730 days!) we are off to Thailand for two weeks. The plan is that we have 3 days in Bangkok, then move south to Koh Chang for 8 days, then back up to Bangkok for a further 3 days. Depending on how things go whilst we're there, we may venture over to Cambodia as Koh Chang isn't too far away, but I think we'll decide that when we're over there. There's a little map below so you can see...
Over the festive period (being Christmas) Sue, Beck and Jack are coming over to England from Australia so I have just over a week off work and will be going around the touristy places of England. Nothing is set in stone yet as to where, but it will be pretty awesome.
Sometime when the weather gets all nice myself, my Dad and Uncle are planning a mammoth adventure on our Push Bikes. The plan is to go from Lands End to John O Groats over two weeks. We figure it will be something like 900-1000 miles. Originally we were going to stay in B&B's and Hostels, but it looks like there may be a bit of a back-up team consisting of Mum and Becky travelling in the van and pitching up at camp sites so we meet them when they have got our cold beers ready. As it's a pretty big trip, I'm sure that some sponsorship for charity will have to be arranged so I will post stuff on here when there is more news.
The next event prior to the big tour is a long weekend on a couple of Barges in celebration of Grandad entering his 7th decade! Argh me hearties. It should be a really fun weekend and am really looking forward to it. Full steam ahead!
So, not many pictures this time and quite wordy, but I'll try hardest for the next post..
Bye for now. X
Wednesday, 19 September 2007
The first post...
So the first post! A lot of pressure to entertain! I am setting this up as a journal for when Becky and I go travelling around Europe. I thought I may as well include some of the build up as it's going to take some organising to get to the time and place where we are ready,packed up and on our way!
The brief plan is that we can both quit our jobs (Yipee!) and for about 6 months drive around seeing what Europe has to offer.
There is no real plan as over a period of 6 months it's pretty hard to say where you'll be a month, two months, three months etc in, but as a rough route, this is it as follows:-
Start tooting goodbye from Norwich stopping at:-
Isn't she a beaut! Of course this is just some of the preparation that has already been in action! All of this work was carried out over the months of March to May of 2007 in ready for the poor excuse for a summer that we have just had. She is 1975 Bay Window 1600cc VW Camper Van. The current state of her is as follows:-
So thats about all for now. I'm going to ease into this bloggin malarky...don't want to peak to soon. Bye for now. X
The brief plan is that we can both quit our jobs (Yipee!) and for about 6 months drive around seeing what Europe has to offer.
There is no real plan as over a period of 6 months it's pretty hard to say where you'll be a month, two months, three months etc in, but as a rough route, this is it as follows:-
Start tooting goodbye from Norwich stopping at:-
- Netherlands
- Germany
- Belgium
- Luxembourg
- Poland
- Czech Republic
- Slovakia
- Austria
- Hungary
- Slovenia
- Croatia
- Serbia and Montenegro
- Albania
- Bulgaria
- Greece
- Sicily
- Italy
- Switzerland
- France
- Norwich!
It sounds so easy....(!) Here's the awesome piece of machinery that will be taking us on this wonderful journey.
Isn't she a beaut! Of course this is just some of the preparation that has already been in action! All of this work was carried out over the months of March to May of 2007 in ready for the poor excuse for a summer that we have just had. She is 1975 Bay Window 1600cc VW Camper Van. The current state of her is as follows:-
So thats about all for now. I'm going to ease into this bloggin malarky...don't want to peak to soon. Bye for now. X
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