Wow! I am so impressed Sarah - this website is brilliant. Must be down to Mark as you aren't technical enough!!!!! Lovely to see all your travels and see that you are looking good. Well you are Sarah - what has happened to Mark - he looks like a beach bum!!!!! Hope you both have a fabulous Christmas and New Year. We are just getting ready for the festivities - last day at work yesterday and off until the new year. Hope you continue to enjoy your travels. Keep safe & happy. Lots of love, DEB xxxxx

peeps, Well i must say it does'nt look that good to me. Like Ed I'am also sat at work and really looking forward to spending christmas with the mother-in-law back in Nottinghamshire followed by a week of DIY back at the house, followed by preparations for a baby, followed by a nervous breakdown.... Why on earth anyone would prefer to travel around SE Asia instead of what we've got planned for the next few months is well beyond me! Have a great christmas and new year...And when you reach Laos have a few Beer Loas's for me...definatley the best beer in SE Asia. take it easy Sean

Hope you both enjoy your Christmas, it sounds like you are having a really nice time... Not at all jealous... It's last day at work before Christmas today so not much going on, so been catching up your photos. It all looks so nice. I like the progression of hair mark.. Starting to look like a proper traveller. Hope you both have a really nice Christmas and new year and look forward to you return (if you ever do) so I'll have someone to do my part 3 with. All the best. Neil

Hey guys Sounds like you are having an awesome (the pickards new favourite american word) time. Just wanted to drop you a note to say we are missing you loads and wish you a very merry christmas and a happy new year. Think of us all partying it up in the manor house in farsley when you are having the time of your lives in Vietnam. Must do New year together next year and defo go abroad. Love to you both Ashleigh x

Guys, I can't believe how amazing it looks - you must be having the time of your life! Well think of me at 830am sat at my desk one of only 2 people in the office on the final day of work before christmas - NICE! Have a very merry christmas, i dare say you may be able to find some pink champagne for the mrs and a roast for you mate. Ed p.s. Silky, Fatos and myself are now proper architects!

Marky, shoot some old U.S bazooka's for me in cambodia, i here for a few U.S dollars more they will throw a live cow in for you aim at and blow up!!!!!! Merry Christmas Dub

Hi Guys Just to say have a great Chrimbo wherever you may be (probs some swanky hotel somewhere) - nonetheless, you "travellers" enjoy and don't ya think Goa seems like a long long time ago ? Take care Ade xxx

Hey everyone
Oops we forgot to check the message board!!! Thanks for the brilliant comments.
As you can see we are having a terrible time, we'd much rather be getting up at 6 in the dark to go to work all day before fighting the crowds Christmas shopping on the way home, in the dark...
Enjoy the festive carnage, take care
Love Mark and Sarahx

Hello!
Firstly I will apologise for my attempt at e-mailing you - after 2 bottles of wine I hit the enter button before typing any more than "hello!" ha ha!
I am a dab hand at this message board lark though seeing as my gorgeous brother & his equally gorgeous girlfriend have been enduring exactly the same as you 2 for the last 6 months or so! Hope you have shared lots of useful info to help you through & that any tips they have passed on have helped you both along the way. Danny & Laura have loved every minute & I hope you do too - god I'm jealous! Love the photos, it's strange to see different faces in the same places!
Keep enjoying yourselves, it would be great to see you all meeting up at some point.
take care,
Love from Carolyn, Mark & Leah xxxx

Hi kids, I've been looking at your Singapore photos - now that is definitely 'class'! It looks 'top class'!! You look wonderful! Mark are you following my trend of shaggy shoulder-length hair? Wanna be cool like your step-dad? Hmmm. Talking of appearances - I have a worry .. in some of the bar photos .. you are both looking, er, slightly ... very slightly ... well exceedingly Eurasian!! The darker skin tone, the upturning of the eyebrows, the leaner face, the ... Oh my god! "I think I'm turning Japanese and I like it ....."

Mark re: My Hut picture from Goa. I am concerned............. You look like you have lost weight! What's that all about?????? Please can you eat more as I really don't want a bald boyfriend I will be traumatised forever......................... It would soooooooooooooo look wrong all that hair on his chest and non elsewhere!! I beg you please eat, you surely cannot starve yourself for the rest of your trip.
After having a year off work you big skivers enduring the pain of the waxing is the least you can do!!!!!!!
Take care, eat and drink plenty!!! Love Rachel. xxxx

Hey this isn't a site-under-construction anymore! You have got stuff on it - temples, elephants and monkeys! Okay, I believe that you are not actually in Ibizza and you are somewhere far away from cold, wet, golden autmn leaves clinging to Yokshire sandstone paving flags, away from half-empty Leeds metro buses with sad vacant faces at the windows and 'pikey' pubs with gelled spikes and number 1's and loud-mouthed girls with tattos and lots of nubile flesh and big, homely dinner plates loaded with roast beef and thick rich dark Oxo gravy, with crisp, salty, roast potatoes and ... getting homesick? Keep globe-trotting kiddies!!

love Steve/dad