"It's the final countdown dadadadaaaDAdadadaDA...." I can't believe today is our last day in Bangkok! Six months - woooooooosh - gone. Tomorrow we'll be hopping on a plane, drinking as many free beverages as we can (is champagne free?), and stepping out onto English soil the following morning. It doesn't quite seem real...As alway…
So... My adventure begins on 17th January when Kirsty and I will be flying to Kenya to start our six month trip of a lifetime with a month's overland acventure tour of East Africa. This site is for friends and family to stay in touch, see where we've been and what we've seen, and to read about the consequences of us attempting to make it the whole way round the world in one piece! Feel free to leave lots of messages on the message board...
"It's the final countdown dadadadaaaDAdadadaDA...." I can't believe today is our last day in Bangkok! Six months - woooooooosh - gone. Tomorrow we'll be hopping on a plane, drinking …
Five months ago today we were arriving in Nairobi ready to embark on our African adventure as white, pasty, clean and naive foreigners with no idea what the following weeks and months would br…
Om swastyastu! ('hello' in Balinese apparantly... I had to look it up on the internet though, as all the people here ever seem to say to us is 'yes, english girl, buy buy, I do cheap price, tr…
Before Dad actually gets on a plane and physically forces me to sit down at a computer and do my blog I thought I should let you all know that no, I didn't lose my camera in Tanzania, and no,…
I think I've fallen in love (again). Not with a hairy white water rafting instructor this time though, instead I've fallen in love with this place, Queenstown, and New Zealand in general reall…
Joanna Jarvis
Hello to Heather and Kirsty. Hey I found your blog! Thank you for the links, the photos are great. It's interesting to see you have done different things to Hannah and Philippa, although some are the same, and thankfully they were because looking through your African photos I can now see who you both are, but can also spot Hannah and Philippa in one or two. Thank you for welcoming Hannah to join you both, you are two lovely people indeed and we are hoping to meet you at Heathrow. Somehow I feel we know you now we've read the blogs and seen your photos. Safe journey together.
Joanna.x
Diane
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http://www.youtube.com/user/BUNGY54321
You wanted have wanted your friend seeing you like this. Shows just how calm you two were.
The sum was the same as yesterday so I knew the answer!(2+1)
jaxx
hi heather . this is jacqui a friend of kirstys. just to say your photos are fab! have really enjoyed looking at them. whos bleeding foot???? poor thing! looking forward to the next lot. u guys take care love me xx
Mares
Hey H,
Sounds like u have been having a whale of a time!! All sounds pretty scary to me mind, after all I have learnt about risk assessment and things don't think what u have been up 2 is going to be the next school trip!
lots of love xx
ps. who is guess who...u have some freaky friends if u ask me ;-)xxxxx
Mum
Don't want to worry you but I think that at some point in your travels you have been abducted by aliens - hope you can remember enough to translate the first part of your latest blog.
I'm rather glad that I don't get to hear about your awesome adventures until after you have survived to tell the tale!
Keep safe, lots of love,
Mum xx.
Guess Who?
Miss Jolly,
Lovely journal entry, I wish I could give you a run for your money when it comes to writing things that make sense and read well BUT you have got me there, everything you write always sounds ' well good' (great english huh)! Anyone would think you got a 1st class degree in english!
Mmm, not entirely sure what to write now as we have liaised, actually no wrong word I think, take 2, we have conversed on the wonders of FB.... I will say a lil something just so people reading this don't think, what is this pointless gobbleDgoup message from guess who! (Btw did not know how to spell gobbleDgoup but i used my initiative & I realised goup sounded like soup so I substituted S for G! Then after thinking woa im such a clever old bird I looked back at the word and it said gobblegoup, I thought NO, I need the sound D in there, so I had a think...I guess I could have put 'dee' but I though NO why not mix it up and put a capital D, so that's what I did, way too cool me thinks)!
......so, yes very pleased to read your blog entry and hear your having a fab time, did u jump out of the plane is what I want to know????
Question:
Can you guess who it is yet??
SUrely, there can only be 1 person you knw quite as witty/weird as me?
If you still have not got it here is a clue:
The last 2 times my sum has equalled 8 despite having different numbers/figures and I thought this was such a coincidence! The coincidence is dead and buried now as my sum was 4 + 3 and we all know this = 7!
I think it is probably best I stop rambling rubbish for now as I guess everyone through process of elimination has worked out who I am.....?!
Lots of Love
xxx
Heather
Just wanted to say a big thank you for all your messages! David and Brenda, I'm not sure how you managed to send a private one and I can't work out how to reply to it, but thank you! We are going to end up in Asia, but not until early June when we fly from Bali to Singapore, before travelling up through Malaysia and into Thailand. I'm glad you had such a good time - if you have any tips for survival let me know! (we haven't planned that part of our trip at all yet). Hopefully more photos coming soon... Lots of love to you all! Hxx
becky winzer
Heeey Hev...vic told me bout ur blog earlier n fort i hav to check it out...amazin idea...sooo jelous of ya pics from africa...n the animals...lush!! hows NZ treatin ya...such a lush place too...damm i wish i was bak there...as for jumpin out of the side of a plane...do it!!lol i bloody loved it...did it again last yr wen i went to las vegas!! its awesome!!!:) neway take care mate xxxx
Dad
The blog update was well worth the wait. Good to see that your expensive education is paying dividends although I'm slightly confused as to why you are in Wellington. I thought it was South Island then North. Is this another blond navigational moment?! Also not sure about Kirsty's throw away comment about jumping out of a plane - are you planning to join her and should I worry now or later? Keep up the photo and blog posts, they keep you close. Lots of love xxx
Sian
Hey, Looks and sounds amazing. I am so jealous it is untrue. One day I i'll make it to Africa and get all the hints and tips off you.
WWR looked amazing- should to the Katouna river in NZ (rotura) if you enjoy it- 7m waterfal to go over- pretty awesome. Wish i was there, keep having fun
x
vicky winzer
Hey Hevs been wondering what you ve been up to and have been facebook stalking and found nothing and then suddenly saw your blog thingy address thought i d check it out and now i am sooooooooo jealous! i wanna be travelling! instead im sat in a library writing a dissertation! bet ur glad ur all done! hows u? hope ur all well?! cant wait for you to get some photos up! while your in sunny Africa we ve had bloody freezing temperatures! had snow the other day - the most snow i ve seen in years! uni was cancelled for 'snow day!' was good fun sledging and snow ball fights but needed to be in good ole devon for some classic hill sledging! anyways take care! have fun! xxxxxxxxx
Maddie
Hev! was just thinking gah, heathers been going aaaages now and no messages no photos nothing.... n then remembered your website! wahey, i love it, such a blimmin good idea! loved reading your stories... no wonder you did an english degree eh - so writingy (umm... yeh that is a word) cant wait to see some piccies but hope theyre not ALL of the animals... when do you go to New Zealand? That is where you are next right? anyway, better go cause lectures in the morning etc etc (if you dont realise it enough already i hope that makes you realise just how damn luck you are! and its all snowy and icey here... ohhh) right, keep safe and keep the stories coming, lots of love! xxxxxxx