Home We looked around the living room, each of us in our own little world. There was a bag of shopping on the table. We’d asked Pete to buy some essentials, the very same Pete who’d taken us to Castle Cary way back in August last year, and there they were, with the addition of […]
35,000 Miles Sometimes ‘the weather’ has a voice. Maybe that’s why the British talk about it all the time, and of late Climate Change has been a wonderful addition to our opening conversational options. ‘Blimey, it’s hot isn’t it?’ ‘Hottest month on record I heard!’ ‘Still, it was a very wet Spring.’ ‘Wettest Spring on record I
Who is that? We walked back down the hill across the river Danube, the border between ‘Buda’ and ‘Pest’. We watched a street band play some Hungarian hits, and resisted the urge to spend any money on trinkets. For the most part our family and friends were going to be getting shells and stones as
I’m coming home… Truth be told, I didn’t really want to come on this trip. Nine months away from home and everything I know, was a terrifying and not particularly attractive idea for me. I like seeing new places, sure, but I’m definitely not a natural-born traveller, I like my home comforts too much. But,
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Buda & Pest We had all been for a Turkish Hamam the last time we were in Istanbul but I couldn’t persuade Theo or Rosa to come again… Theo was concerned one of the big blokes would hurt his knee, they had been pretty brutal the first time round, and Rosa pointed out that she
The cat’s out of the bag ‘Why are you looking at me like that old woman?’ It really was the most unpleasant look anyone had given me since we’d left the UK… I looked defiantly back. ‘It’s okay to carry a rucksack and two bags, and a guitar, and be dragging a really big suitcase!’
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An unexpected phone call Third class trains to Russia were much more comfortable than we were expecting – except for the top bunk. Theo actually loves top bunks, being the youngest of four brothers he didn’t get to go up top much as a boy, but this one was a bit cramped. …if we’d been
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Ticket to Ride Rosa was really poorly when we woke up the next day. She had the symptoms of a heavy cold and a slightly tight chest…We dosed her up with paracetamol and honey and lemon, and then opened the door so Bailey’s could come in. Bailey’s was the cat that had spent so much
On a road to nowhere Would we make it? Unlikely. What would we do if we didn’t! Something else. Fair. ‘Sometimes in life, you just have to go for it.’ Anon. The timings for our changeovers on the journey from Xi’an in central China to Almaty in northeastern Kazakhstan, over 2,100 miles away …were tight.
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Cableway to Heaven We had no idea if Mount Huashan would be anywhere near as glorious as the Yellow Mountains had been. But we weren’t going there for its iconic beauty. We were going there because, high up on the top of the cliff, was the deadliest walkway in the world! When we’d been first
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