We arrived safely to Heathrow last Sunday evening, parted ways with Sarah, Esther and Rich, then went for a much needed wash in Heathrow loos before catching our next (and final) flight up to Manchester. We were sat by two very camp Scousers - knew we were nearly home when we heard that accent ringing out all over the plane! We were met by Nat's parent's, Anna, Kate, Kate's boyf Sim and Becky's boyfriend Chris. We then piled back to Nat's for proper English fi...

Today we leave for our six month journey around the world! We'll be flying down from Manchester to Heathrow this afternoon, then on to Bangkok, Thailand later on tonight.

Tonight was our leaving party in the Priory. Sue came up from Huddersfield, was great seeing her again, don't see her often enough. Mucho vino was consumed, we ended up in Modo in town, there was lots of tears (mainly from Nat), then we went en masse to Kate's new prestigious pad and ate pizza and spag bol (well done Anna!) Not a bad night, but can't remember most of it!