Mark and Andy Well, well well. This is the last message that we r gonna put on here whilst we are over seas. What a trip we've had! It's been amazing! All the places we've been, people we've met (even June in Whittier) and the things we've seen and experienced have been fantastic! Both really looking forward to coming home, it definately feels like the right time for the trip to finish. Look forward to seeing u all (Dad, we'll go 4 that drink, and Mum, Bean and Steveo) and all the family and mates too. Thanks to everyone at home and all over the world, u r all stars!!!!! See you all soon, can't wait, love Mark. xxxxxxxxxx Yo! Just wanted to say thanks as well to everybody back home and the people we have met whilst on the road, have simply had the greatest experience of my life! Looking forward to catching up with everone when I get back (Mum, Dad and r kid in particular!). Take Care and see you soon! Love Andy. xoxoxox

Marks dad Mark, Andy, well nearly there not quite round the world in 80 days more like qoute "all over the bloody place" much better and more exciting. You've travelled a lot, seen a lot, done a lot , got lots of stories , and meet lots of interesting people phew what an experience !!! We are all exicited and cant wait till next Monday when the wandering boys come home. I have pre warned the settee, tv remotes and also the fridge that you are due back so the shock wont damge them to much, and Tesco have taken in more stock. Marky suppose we can carry on our tradition of each time you come back we go for a father son drink at Sutton Hall (will to take your mum, sis and Stephen with us), will go steady on the drink as you might be out of the habit of drinking !!! (ha, ha, ha dont think so). Shame about Vietnam, but you made the right desicion, there are enough risk in life without hurricanes blowing round you head. Thailand is an interesting places, watch out for the pretty girls who smile at you, you never know. Be nice to round of your journey with a bit of relaxing in Bangkok rather than flying here and there so enjoy these last few days. Will sign off now see ya Monday at the airport, you will spot your mum in the crowd she will be the one with the beaming grin on her face (along with Sue). love you, take care both of you see you really soon. xxxxxxxx Dad

Mark Yo! Hope all r well!! Just at Koh Samui Airport headin back to Bangkok, until we leave! Can't wait to see u all, nice to hear from Adam and Sue, i'm lookin forward to playin some sweet rock n roll with u guys again!!! We will put another message on before we leave, hopefully a funny- last- message- of- trip- kind- of- thing!!!! Its very hot here!!! Phew!!! Love u all, hope ur all well, see u all soon....woooohooooo!!!!!!! Love Mark.

Adum & Sue Mark and Andy, Hiya, well ity's nearly over and I'm sure you've had a great time. hope you've had your guitar with you Marky as we have really missed your licks. get up to speed quickly as we have a few gigs lined up and we need to show Stu how it should be done. Have a great time of what is left of your mega trek and have a safe journey home. All the best, Adum & Sue, The neighbours !!!!!

Andy's Mum Hello Boys... Not long now!!! Good to hear from you the other day Andy. It's a shame you won't get the chance to go to Vietnam and Cambodia but I'm sure you are making the most your time in Thailand. I believe you went to see a show in Bangkok, that sounds nice, was it a musical?, you can't beat a bit of culture... Had Phil and Sarah and the girls staying at the weekend, had a riotous night out, ended up in Chicago Rock... They watched your sky diving and bungy dvds and were very impressed!!! Your Dad and I are off to Dublin 14 - 16th and I have booked the Monday off so I can meet you at the airport. Take care both of you, these last couple of weeks seem to be dragging - it will be great to have you both home safe and sound. Lots of love Mum/Sue XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Mark Yo Yo Yo!!!!! Hope all are well and out of rehab (Mum) only kidding!!!!!! I love u. We r in Cairns, just having a walk round today, have just booked Kuranda railway&sky cable for tomorrow. We fly to Bangkok on Sunday, am lookin forward to it. Nice messages from Sue "Lets have a beer while Andy and Hugh aren't looking" Megarrell and Clairey "voice of an Angel arse of a demon" Bean. Can't wait to see you all, definately have an uno championship of some kind as long as Hugh doesn't cheat to win again!!!!!!!! Not going to be able to go to Laos unfortunately but will have two weeks in Vietnam, have a route planned and am looking forward to going! Watched Liverpool v Man Utd t'other night, not bad game, just good to watch a sport where guys aren't spear tackiling (Tana Umaga) each other for a change! Had a couple of lazy days in Airlie beach and enjoyed it so much that we thought we'd take the rest of the week off..... and the next one and so on..... Hope all are well, see you all soon, lots of love Mark.

Bean (little sis) Hello THusie!!! Marky and Andy, you're nearly coming home Yeahhhyyyyy!! Looking forward to it so much. Can't believe you've been ther for so long now! Hope you are both ok and loving the sun shine in OZ, I'm just at Hulleys on a late shift, Andy i'm sure you can remeber how boring it is here at this time!! I'm really enjoying it here, all the pepole are really nice, going to the races with them all on fri, should be good fun!! I saw Sue today, we are both really excited to see you both again, well everyone is!! Just like to thank you again Marky for letting my naughty bowel secrets out, yes I pass wind from time to time, well most of the time actually!! he he, very lady like, I blame it on my Pops and Big Brothers influence!!! Everyone is looking forward to meeting you in Ireland at Christmas, We'll hopfully get over there before then if we can, Maybe at the end of Oct or nov sometime. Victoria's baby is due on the 25th, yep Christmas day!! It's gonna be ace! You will love Emily, Erin and jenny!! They are lovely girls and very entertaining!! We deffinately should start this band idea we have when you get back, I thinkwe'd do really well!! We all could sing, you on guitar and steveo on gguitar, we could get adam for the drums possibly?! Be well good!! Or we could just do simple accoustic sets!! How exciting!! I'm a wee bit sire today from the gym,abosolutely mad about the gym now!! Well kind of! I can do alot more stuff now, but am developing strange manly arm muscles!! Stephen is very scared! Doing a spinathon tomorrow at work, an hour on a spin bike for The children society charity so I'll be nice and sweaty at work after which will be nice!! Anyway I'll get off now and start cashing up, give me something to do!! finfishing in half an hour!1 Speak to you soon, love you loads and miss you, not long now!!! XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx

Andy's Mum Hi Andy, Hi Mark (librarian extraodinaire...), Hope you two are fit and well. Not long to go now...can't wait for you to come home... I think we should organise an Uno Fest and have a performance of the joint McCurrie/Megarrell one-chord choir!!! Sounds like you are having fun in Matilda and enjoying the wonders of Oz, although scenery wise I'm sure you are finding it hard to beat New Zealand. We had great fun with you both during our travels around NZ, you were both great company and did very well to uphold the rule of "no trumping in the campervan" (good job a certain young lady wasn't with us ay Mark....). It's quite a nice sunny day in Macclesfield today, lets hope it lasts to the weekend. Well, must get some work done. Take care both of you, you are both very special and missed very much by your family and friends. Lots and lots of love MumXXXXXX SueXXXX

Mark's mum G'day Mark & Andy, Hope you are both ok. Received the photos and DVD from Hugh and Sue of the Sky Diving, Bunjy jump etc. under instructions to view the DVD when Mark phones, so he can re-live the experience, not for me! Hope Matilda is behaving and no speeding now!!!!!Glad you enjoyed your visit to the zoo! shame you didn't meet Steve "Crikey" Irwin!! or his crocs! Also pleased to hear you did the surfing bit, glad that is also out of the way, can now sleep again! Not long now boys, 5 weeks and counting, those beards will be down to your knees by then! On your way to the Great Barrier Reef, lovely place to visit. I know you have your route planned out, but you must take a trip on the Kurunda Railway and then back down on the cable car through the Rain Forest! Nik (Coleman) we are also going to Torreviecja 1st October for a week, so may bump into you, although we won't be hitting the night-life, just a nice peaceful chill out around the pool and on the sun terrace. Mark may also have read your book that week if not before. Vietnam will be a great place to visit, and as Tracey McC has said she is jealous! Anyway best get on. Be careful and enjoy Bangkok and Vietnam/Laos Lots of Love, miss you lots and lots and lots Mum/Carolynxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

sarah/phil (wacky) bax Andy - So jealous reading your ma's account of the holiday ...very brill! Will try and speak to them later today if I can face it. Really pleased you're going home via the Far East Suzanne always raves about that part of the world, I don't expect that you will be living the life of luxury like your Ma and Pa in Bali though. Enjoy the last leg of your tour and we look forward to seeing you soon How very dare you both have such a great time!!!!!

Mark G'Day!!!!!! In Byron (Home and Away) Bay!!!!!! Surfs up dudes and dudettes!!!!!! Hopefully gonna do some in a bit!! Nice to here from Tracey, thanks for the advice, we are flying to HCMC from Bangkok, then overland for a week or so up to Hanoi, using the route u and Minh gave me a while back, making use of trains for the longer journeys and buses for 2-3hr ones. We are going to book all our flights in Bangkok first, hope u r all well!! Good to hear from Nik, glad festival was good!! Look 4ward to catchin up and cruisin in ur pimp wagon!!!!!! Oh and we found out that Australia Zoo (Steve Irwin) is on our route North, crickey!!!!!!! We are back in mid Oct for all those not in the know!!!!!!! Hope everyone is ok, love to u all, Mark. Just found out that England got beat 1-0 by N. Ireland......Good effort lads!!!!!!!!!!

Nik (Man of Coal) Hey Fellas.... Just thought I'd say Hi and thanks for the recent text messages! Hope your enjoying it all still and Yes Mark the Kings of Leon certainly did Rock! As for Maiden I have to be honest I watched Run to the hills then he started ranting on about Phantom of the Opera Saying " If you dont get this F*****G Track then you don't get Iron Maiden..... Let's just say I didn't get the track so I did one and went to see Bloc Party.... But the 5 songs I did see were o.k. Overall Festival was Ace! Sorry I didn't reply to your last text but i guess i had too much to say for a text so i wrote it on here as it's been a while. Lou's number is 07881795375. Well dude Hope you enjoy the rest of your travelling, I'm off on Hols Myself soon.... Torrevieja in Spain, Can't wait! It's been a long year but also short at the same time! Crazy how its almost a year since our Grad, and sad how little I've actually done in a year other than work! Well cant really say the same to you! How many places now?!?! Look forward to talking to you and hearing the stories when you get back. Take Care Mate :) Nik

Hugh and Sue living the dream in Bali... Had an amazing time in Sydney, a real happnin place!!!. Had a little tour into the bush and got the chance to cuddle a Koala ahhh, was suppose to see kangagroos and wallabies but the little b*****s wouldn't come out, saw a dead kanga by the troad, asked the tour guide to stop so we could stand it up and have our photo taken with it but he wasn't up for it... Arrived in Bali yesterday, oh my God, how posh is our hotel!!! The place is paradise but we exhausted ourselves today when we swam to the bar in the middle of the pool for a cool beer so just had to lie on the beach the rest of the day. Must go now as we need to get ready for cocktails (2 hours of champagne, cocktails and fine wine - all free!!!). Hope you are all well and feeling extremely jealous of our millionaire lifestyle. Take care one and all. Lots of love Hugh and Sue. XXXXXXXXXXXXX

Andy G'Day!! Thought i'd just stick a message on as I've not been on the site for a while! Still in Sydney having the best time with Mum, Dad and Mark taking in all the sites! Had our picture taken with David Campese in his shop near Sydney Harbour Bridge the other day (what a legend, but not as much as O'Drisscol!), which was quite an experience to say the least! Congrats to the new edition to the Hamilton family, hope you are all well. Good to hear from Jack as well, sounds like your having a brilliant time in New Zealand mate, keep living the dream! Anyhoo plently of stuff to do so I best get my skates on and leave it at that! Take Care everyone, Andy x

Tracey Hi Mark,If you are planning to fly from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi you will need to book the flights in advance (several days before). The train journey from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi is spectacular but is a 2 day trip...do you have enough time to do it? Within towns and cities use the cycle-rickshaws but make sure you agree on a price before you set off!Will you be in Vietnam on Sept.2? If so, its the national day (proclamation of the republic in 1945) I'm sure they'll have some celebrations going on. As for the food, I'm sure you know, don't eat raw vegetables or fruit that you have not personally peeled. Drink only bottled water (where you have broken the seal). If you have any specific questions when you're there, let us know... Take care and have a great time...I'm jealous! :) Tracey