I left Brisbane headed for Manchester on sunday with a stop over at Singapore. For those reading this that are ignorant to the ways of the singapore airport it has free internet, games, a relaxing treed area with Koi fish in a pond and loads of shops. Many of these shops are duty free alcohol shops with spirits less than half the price you would pay in Australia. Hmmm...how much alcohol can I bring back again?
Jim picked me up from the airport around 8am and we went back to his pad after seeing off his partner Nell who happened to be headed for America for 3 weeks a few hours after I arrived (Jim swears it was a coincidence). Somehow jet lag seemed not to affect me, probably due to getting sleep on the plane during the English night.
Anyway, because I know you're all so very enthused by the trivial things I did today I will tell you. Unfortunatly I couldn't get a simcard because my phone only accepts bloody telstra simcards. So I guess dad will have to put up with me using the $3/min phone calls and 75c texts when a payphone isn't handy.
Finally as I promised in this post I will include my itinery, which is certainly not set in concrete as I have only booked my London and Manchester lodgings. I intend to take a 19 day bus tour, which I can't book until they upload their tour times for october, but I have set aside 14 days that I can hopefully spend on this tour. I will miss out on visiting some places on my itinery due to the other 5 days, so when it is booked I will update my itinery. Anyway here it is so far:
Semptember
16 Leave Brisbane
17 Stay with Jim in Alsager, England (my dad's brother)
18 Stay with Jim in Alsager, England (my dad's brother)
19 Stay with Jim in Alsager, England (my dad's brother)
20 Stay with Jim in Alsager, England (my dad's brother)
21 Stay with Jim in Alsager, England (my dad's brother)
22 Manchester
23 Manchester
24 Manchester
25 Lake district
26 Lake district
27 Lake district
28 Lake district
29 Lake district
30 Stay with Colin (my brother) and co. in Hoolmyre Cottage, Scotland
October
1 Stay with Colin (my brother) and co. in Hoolmyre Cottage, Scotland
2 Stay with Colin (my brother) and co. in Hoolmyre Cottage, Scotland
3 Stay with Margaret (my dad's sister) in Dundee, Scotland
4 Stay with Margaret (my dad's sister) in Dundee, Scotland
5 Stay with Margaret (my dad's sister) in Dundee, Scotland
6 Stay with Margaret (my dad's sister) in Dundee, Scotland
7 Stay with Margaret (my dad's sister) in Dundee, Scotland
8 Stay with Margaret (my dad's sister) in Dundee, Scotland
9 Salisbury (town near stonehenge)
10 Salisbury (town near stonehenge)
11 Colchester
12 Colchester
13 London
14 London
15 London
16 London
17 Bus Tour
18 Bus Tour
19 Bus Tour
20 Bus Tour
21 Bus Tour
22 Bus Tour
23 Bus Tour
24 Bus Tour
25 Bus Tour
26 Bus Tour
27 Bus Tour
28 Bus Tour
29 Bus Tour
30 Bus Tour
31 Durham
November
1 Durham
2 Stay with Jim in Alsager, England (my dad's brother)
3 Stay with Jim in Alsager, England (my dad's brother)
4 Stay with Jim in Alsager, England (my dad's brother)
5 Stratford-upon-avon (Shakespeare's birthplace)
6 Stratford-upon-avon (Shakespeare's birthplace)
7 Ludlow
8 Ludlow
9 Manchester
10 Leave from Manchester
11 Arrive in Brisbane
2 comments:
the place looks nice. jim has an awesome skinny tie! thanks for the update and photos.
Hi Arvid,
good to see that you have got your blog up and going already from the uk.
Everything is fine here. I'm heading for chinchilla tomorrow (Saturday)for the weekend and Nonie and Neets are heading up sat arvo.
I hope you can book that tour soon. Keep trying them - they really should have their october tour dates worked out by now.
Have fun.
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