Round The World Trip 2006

 Hello again! I know what you're thinking... "You wait all month for his final travelogue email and then he sends me two in a day!"   Well, yes that's right. I actually finished writing the supposed final episode last night and it was all a bit of a rush in the end - fingers-a-blur - as I frantically strived to finish my 'gloat list' before I had to go off and play 5-a-side football.   After a 12 month absence I am back playing my beloved game of football again twice a week. Infact, my first game was played 22 hours after we got back! Absolutely useless, of course, but the old skills are coming back again now and once more defenders are being left standing by my lightning pace and sublime ball skills!   Well, I thought I'd write a little epilogue; Let you know how we're doing trying to adjust back to so called "normal" life...   You know when you go away on holiday, when you come back something has always broken whilst you were gone? For ins...

Greetings to you all! I hope you are all healthy and fit. Well, Lynn and I are now back in England. Our tremendous year on the road has, sadly, come to an end and we're now back in the land of mortgages, pensions and bills... how thoroughly depressing it all is! Anyway, sincere apologies for not writing this last episode sooner. I could give you 101 excuses as to why I haven't done it but I'll give you just the one and a damn fine one it is too. Excuse No. 1 for not writing sooner: We had no internet connection. See, I told you it was good. Now we've got Broadband installed though my excuses have dried up and so here I am, back at the computer, about to embark on a lengthy bit of typing so you can finally read about the last 12 days of the trip. Read on my friends... On Tuedsday 7th February we wake early and pack the last of our stuff. At 06:40 we have to be at the Beijing Central Train Station for a 07:40 departure to Moscow. Most of our packing involves sorting out t...