HUGE CONGRATS MR AND MRS BLAKE!!!

Looks like you had such a fab day....We love the photos...you both look amazing!!! I love the close up black and white pic of you....And we are loving the cool pirate action....! Jem is one sneaky dawg! Have a wicked party....and please can we have another one when we get home???? Miss you xx

Hello, Hello, Hello. Back from my holiday and now a married lady! Jem (my husband) is amazing and sneaky, he popped the question on the 28th April on top of a mountain in Zion National Park in Arizona and I said yes! He then asked if I wanted to get married in Vegas and I said yes some more. 3 days later we arrived in Vegas where he'd managed to arrange for 15 of our friends to surprise me in a bar, we got married on Friday 4th May on the boat on the Vegas Strip outside the Treasure Island Hotel! Here's the pic's http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=6251&l=dd818&id=683815672.

It was an amazing day I wish you could have both been there, we are now about to start planning a big Garden party some where. Can you come home now you've been gone aaaaaggges! love you xx Melissa Blake :)

Thanks for your postcard, received on Thursday.  We have enjoyed the latest pictures, particularly the snowy ones.  Trying to work out how to view the videos.

Our early summer has come to an abrupt end and it is raining today (well, it IS a bank holiday).   We are off to Devon for a few days from next Sunday, in a cottage by the river Dart, stopping on the way to stay with Bill and Pat.  Saw Matt Jane and Max last weekend, enjoyed a picnic in the sun at Audley End, with Nana.

Let us have your address if you do decide to have a more permanent base for a few weeks.  E-mailing you about tax stuff, so as not to sully your jolly message board.

Take care.

Hey guys how are the travels going? Im now in Potosi, Bolivia officially the worlds highest city.  You will be pleased to know i have managed to find a few new sets of parents (and single young girls) to look after me so all is good!  I would recommend you go to San Pedro de Atacama if you get the chance its a nice place, very touristy and expensive but some great scenery around!

Ok take care x 

Hey Yori,

Sorry hon...communication breakdown...thought deb had emailed you and vice versa....even tho debs is claiming her eyes are too puffy to see the keyboard clearly....i dunno!

Anyways am going to email you now.....not on trusty facebook tho.....these things take time for us oldies.

 XX

Hello!! How are you doing? Haven-t heard from you since I left my long ass email... I am think that it over whelmed you guys and now can-t think of what to write to me.... Where are you two now? I have made it to Buenos Aires now, and am just getting settled in. I find it really hard to meet up with the friends that I have here since I lack a cell phone...  Well, just wanted to write a little messege for you guys! Btw, the eye drops are coming in handy! Maybe, subconsciencely, I did steal them! yeah right...

Take care! Yori

Hey there you two!!

How's it going? Very jealous of you being in South America still!  Are you still in Argentina?  Is it just fabulous?  Is SA like travelling Asia or is it completely deifferent?

 I'm still in Sydney, although at this very moment I'm in the Blue Mountains!!  I'm finally leaving on SUnday night to get the night bus to Melbourne!  Very sad about leaving my hostel, but excited as well.  I know that it's definately time for a change!!!  It's my birthday tomorrow so having a very big weekend of it!  I'm 27 on the 27th!!  That only happens once you know.  I printed up some invites on my last day at work and I'm pretty sure everyone from the hostel are coming!  We're going to the Golden Sheath in Double Bay, very swish!  Did you guys go there?  What's it like?

 Anyway, thought I'd better put a message on your board as Tim threw a wobbly about facebook!!  Now you can message me on there!

Much Love Bev x

P.s BTW - I'm a big fan of the Froth breakfast as well now!  Most saturdays, I'm there!  It's gone up to $6 now though!!!!

Hey Lou and Mark,

 Just a quick shout out!!  Hope you crazy kids are doing okay...have made a note to check the ironman website on the day.....Hawaii eh?  sounds good...fingers crossed....glad your still looking at the website....but dont think your not getting the full 16 hour slide show we're busily preparing on our return....and you'll enjoy it!  so there.  Chat later.....have you got googlemail email?  its really good and chat to matt all the time on it....go sign up, you want to.  Bye

HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! took us a fair amount of time to find this!! heh heh how are you??im fine!quite busy for us down here!mum [[fran]] has just started getting in the workers!!about to start work on the roof in a weeks time!!iv just moved schools again!and im really enjoying it!! spend most of my time drumming [[practising for my grade 3!]] where are you planning to go next???whats been happening?????? tell all !!!!!

missin yooh like crazy!! mum says that your coming back next chrimbo! [[i cant wait that long!!!!!!!!!]] hope to see you soon luv mel xxxxx

p.s mum sends her luv!nd says shes very jelouse!!!!

Hey guys,

Thought I'd better post a message before I start getting the abusive email messages again lol!! I'm bk at uni now but dont start lectures till may 1st so trying to revise and also complete a 4000 essay...however I have become a facebook junkie and spend most of my time spying on my mates lol. It is a rather addictive web site lol. So where was my phn call???? Next time ur on skype give me a call hint hint lol. Also when are your travells gonna end?? Or u not planning on gracing England again?

Miss you both loads,

Luv (Dr) Bex

(Still can't believe tht I am bk at uni again lol) 

WHat do we have to do to get a personal shout out??  Not one mention in the whole blasted history of this bloomin' website!!  What a nightmare.  Anyway, we are still keeping track of your adventures, but we have no adventures to report, as usual, just work and Mark's training.  His first big iron man event is on the 19th May though, it will be shown love on the internet (ironmanlive.com) so if you are online then check him out, hoping he will get a slot in Hawaii!!  Then we can go there for free!! Yeee ha!!  Anyway, slaters  Lou  and Mark xxx

Hola all travellers,  Felt it was time for a few shouts to some of the main players on our trip so far....!!

Sorry if we've missed anyone...feel free to slate us in public if we have!! x

 Ashley - You were right, you do need looking after! Have sent you an email - but we need all your top advice for Barriloche please!  Look forward to Inca Trail tales...

 Welsh Katie - Halo Lass - Whats the news from back home, still thinking of moving to London?  Give us all the gossip and say hello to you "travelling companion", if your speaking to her, hehe!

Claire and Lex - Hello luvlies, Claire, are you still in south america? living it up next to posh swimming pools, those were the days...don't get tear-y! ;-)  Lex, married a maori yet....hows the transistion gone?  Lets hear it.  Miss you both

Rio Dorm Strong Crew - Liam, hope the partys still alive in BA, will definilty be seeing you in around 3/4 weeks from now, so get ready to show us the town.  Irish John, still got the calandar, hope things are good, give us an update mate. Mattheus, Hi mate what the latest from back home, ever catch up with the Cordavo honey bunny? Is it possible that we can all meet one day at th finest restaurant in Ipenema, you know, Kilogramma rules!!

Elaine and Rich - I'm thinking you two have prob circumnavigated the world at least 3 times since easter, where the hell are you?  Hows the leg coming on Elaine...still self medicated with plenty of booze I hope! ;0 

 Mima - Hey Mime, how you doing lass, was great to see you, girl about town on Phi Phi, still going large....what are you up to?  You'll be pleased to know the buses in Argentina rock compared to Laos, so think was  low point, done and dusted. Speak soon. x

Simon and Mags - Hey Guys, still speaking Chinese to each other I hope....and sourcing strange chinese beers. We just missed a beer festival in Uraguay last week....and thought of you..prob just as well thinking of our previous carnage anyways!!  Give us all the latest news from Montreal.  PS Hair is still going great!

Little Katy - Hey honey, we think you should give Lonely Planet a run for their money and publish your own guides.....cos LP are crap and yours are top tips indeed.  a****** is just not the same, despite trying to keep it social, keep getting to know the locals! and keep us informed of all the lurid details. x Where are you now?

Brian - Alright geezer, Still have come nowhere near a bar bill like that magical day on Rapa Nui, go on then one just one more bad caiprinha my good man!  How was the rest of your time at Milhouse...we are heading back to Bs As and still not sure where to stay....We are in Ushuaia now, and No didn't go to Antartica either, what were you thinking, its brass monkeys here, let alone 1000k further south.  Speak soon.

Manc Nic - Hi mate, Thinking of you working hard up north, even tho everyone is working hard up north compare to us, as we are drinking Argie wine and eating cake, right now, in the most southernmost city in the world.  But we still care, no, we do. Any return trips planned to Japan....think the country had finally sunken in for us just recently....and we both keen to go back one day.  Always great to hear from you, look forward o meeting in back in Blighty.

Bev, Bex, Anna and Michelle and Tootie Fruit - Hola Chicos Trans Sib Crew, Great to hear from you all - so Facebook, thats where all the cool kids are hanging eh, cheers for putting us in the loop, hehe!!  Bev, Good luck with the move to Melbourne, change will be as good as a rest. x  Anna - What was the visit back home like?  Where is home for you these days??

Moscovites Amanda, Gen and Trish - Seems like an age ago we partied with you guys in Russia...hows home? Have heard rumours you are back on the travelling trail Amanda? Maybe see you in a random bar somewhere...

Sir Catchpole - Long time no hear Ian, hope you still check the site every now and again.  Will email you soon for a catch up, hope things are still going well in the smoke, look forward to an Aussie beer on Tottenham Court Rd!

Speak to everyone soon,   Tim and Deb,  X ;-)