Hello all! Well me and Richard are well and truely back to reality. I am now working for a charity in the Human Resources department and Richard is working for Age Concern. Things are finally starting to come together, we should be moving into a new flat next weekend. YEY! We're already planning to go back to America to finish off the bits we had to miss due to Natural Disasters and National States of Emergency! Joshua Tree National Park is likely to be our f...

Given all of the chaos surrounding the potential terrorist attacks on planes heading for America I thought I had better let anyone who didn't already now that we are now back safe and sound having had a wonderful and exhausting time away. Amsterdam was fantastic (although the morning we had to spend re-tracing our steps in order to find our camera with 5 weeks worth of photos was a bit of a low moment!). We both slept a lot when we initially got back and tried to...

HOORAY! Just found out that I have passed all of my first year CIPD exams and even won an award for student of the year, so can now relax and look forward to a summer of travelling and no re-sits!!!

I think I've finally managed to sort this site out now! Any problems I apologise for in advance! The departure date is getting ever closer...I'm due to finish work at the end of the week, with Richard finishing at the end of next week (30/06). After that it is a couple of days before we jet off from Gatwick on 2nd July to Toronto and begin our adventure! We've now booked all of our flights but still haven't finished sorting out all of our hostels/ hotels etc...