You might wanna grab a cuppa tea before reading this one - it's frikin' epic! Stranded in Beijing, 19th - 20th December 2010 This was the beginning of a very emotional and draining 52 hour journey home. Ok, I need to calm down. Let's make a list of everything I need: I have £17 cash, a maxed out credit card and no ATM card. Genius! All London Airports are closed, and so are virtually all UK airports BA are not answering the f***ing phone & advising not...

So, our bags are packed and we're ready to go - which probably explains why I can't get the song 'Leaving on a jet plane' out of my mind! We have our U.S. Visas, Australian Working visas, we've confirmed our flights, had all of our jabs (my arm still feels dead from half of them!), handed in our resignations, had the leaving parties, all of the very very sad goodbyes, set our itinerary, saved our money, packed, repacked and packed again, fully charged our cameras...

Wow - we have actually booked the tickets!!! I am soooo exited! :)So after months of to-ing and fro-ing, we have finally decided roughly where we want to go and yesterday we went to the travel agents and booked the flights! We will be leaving on our epic trip on Tuesday 4th May 2010 (only 4 month away!) from Heathrow's new terminal 5 to New York (I hope our luggage goes with us!) We are flying out of LA 2.5 months later, then onto Fiji for 10 days, New Zealand fo...

Hi all and welcome to my first world wide Blog entry! I'm sure I've probably bored most of you to death with rambling on about this trip, so if you can still bear to hear anything else about it you've come to the right place! I can't promise that my writings will always be witty, insightful or even interesting, but I'll do my best to keep you all updated. I will be writing about the good, the bad and the plain ugly & will come back as often as I can. So, wh...