Premier Farewell Well Friday was my day at Premier Foods so guess I'm now officially unemployed, what can a say I'm a little sad to leave as there is some great people who work there but its going to be an adventure and will be something new everyday with new challenges. I'm utterly excited about the trip, if not a little bit nervous about leaving everything behind but if I don't do it now I never will. For my leaving do, I book a room in Tiger Tiger , laid a...

Research, things to do, Charity challenges and activities It's 7 weeks till my last day at work so since time is passing by very quickly, thought I'd do another update. I've done a lot of research to find out what to do and where's good to visit, there's so much on the internet its hard to know where to start but I found some good sites so if anyone's thinking of going anywhere then check out the two websites below which I found to be the best ones. ...

To fly or not to fly? Well as you have read my intention was to do 90% of the way to Australia on boat, bus and train, after the planning session the other day it's just not practical to do this as we want to spend 3.5 months around Europe covering 12 countries. The stumbling block is the Visas for Russia and China, as they both have to be obtained in our own country first as we cannot get them in Europe :( . So this cuts out a massive chunk of the way overland,...

Travellers Tech what to take? As some of you maybe aware I am a bit of a geek and love technology, so this begs the question, what am I going to take to help me on my way and also help me update this blog on the road. At first I was considering taking my laptop, a Dell Inspiron 1525, but its far to bulky and heavy to carry around for over a year so that idea got scrapped and I managed to flog it to my sister, thanks Vic! The next option was to buy a netbook, t...