JAMES Our World Tour is off and running! Admittedly Norwich, Norfolk is not the most likely first port of call for a world tour, but it was not without good reason that we travelled to East Anglia on Friday night. We were there to celebrate Jo and Jim's wedding and, having known Jo pretty much all my life, it was really nice to spend part of our last weekend in the country with such close friends and my side of the family. And it was a fantastic day - the mons...

JAMES Ok, here goes - my first ever blog entry! I still can't quite believe that my persistent attempts over the past 5 years to coerce Katie into jacking it all in and going travelling have finally paid off, and in 4 days time we will be somewhere over the Atlantic on our way to our first port of call - Miami, Florida. We're not quite doing in authentic backpacker style, that's true - our itinerary is pretty well planned, and for all the hostels we stay in I a...

Well, here we are at long last, the much awaited blog site! Seems to be pretty easy to use and love the fact that you can attach an itinerary and there's a message board for people to get in touch with us too! 4 days to go before we embark on our whistle stop tour. Still feeling pretty calm about all the things I have to do before we go (since James is working still!) particularly as we're away at a friend's wedding this weekend! I think the panic might start to...