We are off traveling again, but after having been on an organised trip we decided to organise it ourselves, and use the mode of transport we most enjoy, our motorcycles. We will be leaving at the end of May and should be away until the middle of August. Route We are traveling through France to the Rivera then round the coast to Italy, we will spend time in Pisa, Florence and have a break from the site seeing with a stop at Lake Bolsena. We then move onto the ...

We have just arrived home today, as we had to leave the truck. Jack was struggling with the heat, as we have been in over 40 degree heat for nearly four weeks, at times over 50 this has taken its toll, as she has lost a lot of weight. We arrived at Agra and the town was the usual chaos, but even worse there were people defecating next to food sellers etc the smell of the open sewers is indescribable, how can they allow this to happen. We decided to upgrade ou...

5 days to go! We are ready and raring to go.see attached picture, no jack hasn't been swallowed up by it that really is her underneath!

Only FOUR weeks to go. I have added a picture of our intended route to Australia. We have now got our visas for India and Pakistan, this was a relatively easy process, the rest we will get on the way. We have had all our jabs, Jack had more than me as I couldn't take the pain! (not really I had them from a previous trip), and our bags will rattle with malaria pills! We are now just working on what we want to see on the trip and visiting a few friends and fam...

Well we have finished sorting out our kit, bar a few small items, so all we need to do is concentrate on getting the house sorted out, so the kids(21&24!!) are able to look after it and Carry on with their lives, both will be house hunting and busy with the Olympics. Jackie has stopped work as of last week; we have just collected the passport photos there are 30 each including ones of Jack covered up for Iran, she looks different, to say the least. We recei...