SOTR-Europe bound

August - October 2018

Our Adventure b4 Dementia Europe bound trip 2018
A whirl wind trip to 7 countries: Croatia, Bosnia, Italy incl San Marino and Vatican City, England and Wales. Read more

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- Oct 2, 2018
- 13 °C
- Altitude: 227 m
- England Saddleworth Diggle 53.571857, -1.99229553°34’19” N 1°59’32” W
Day 33
Those skies!!
October 2, 2018 in England ⋅ 13 °C
Day 30
Breakfast with the family then a pamper sesh with pedicure whilst Johnny went on ANOTHER run - a final skidaddle up to the Rams Head- cut a little short due to the weather 😢

Couldn’t leave without a curry so caught up with Chris, Sally and Ellie for dinner and a lovely meal at their favourite Indian.Read more
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- Oct 3, 2018
- 11 °C
- Altitude: 123 m
- England South Lakeland District Windermere Windermere Railway Station 54.380685, -2.90678554°22’50” N 2°54’24” W
Day 34
Road trip through 3 counties
October 3, 2018 in England ⋅ 11 °C
Day 31
Road trip with Chris Evans through 3 counties: Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria, and the M61 car park, to the Lakes.

Lunch at The Queens Head Hotel, Troutbeck- a haunt of ours from the past with its four poster bed bar- little bit posher than we remembered but it has had a complete restoration since a fire 4 years ago and only reopened earlier this year.

Stop at Kirkstone Pass Inn- a 15th century inn 1489ft above sea level, Ambleside for afternoon tea of blueberry scone with jam and cream and a mooch around Bowness on Windermere. We even managed to find the little hotel that we honeymooned at 26 years ago.

Returned to make dinner for Hayley and Simon and introduce them to chevapchichi.Read more
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- Oct 4, 2018
- 13 °C
- Altitude: 173 m
- England Saddleworth Delph 53.551691, -2.00827753°33’6” N 2°0’30” W
Day 35
Final Goodbyes
October 4, 2018 in England ⋅ 13 °C
Day 32
Last full day
Morning walk around Dovestones reservoir- where has all the water gone? 😳 Found Indians Head and then Celebration Wood which overlooks the water and where Johnny has decided his final resting place will be.

Lunch with Mum, Dad and Pippa, and sad goodbyes until next time 😢

After trying to squish everything back in the cases ready for our flights back to Australia in the morning, we decided to head to the Cross Keys Inn for dinner by the fire -we started the UK part of our trip at the Cross Keys so it seemed fitting to end our trip there.

Ended the day feeling more than a little crappy with sinusitis and cold symptoms, so dosed myself up and headed to bed hoping to wake up feeling a bit better😷Read more
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- Oct 4, 2018
- 13 °C
- Altitude: 173 m
- England Saddleworth Delph 53.551691, -2.00827753°33’6” N 2°0’30” W
Day 35
Dovestones
October 4, 2018 in England ⋅ 13 °C
Loved the trail markers at Dovestones reservoir
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- Oct 6, 2018
- 22 °C
- Altitude: 25 m
- Australia Victoria Melbourne -37.813628, 144.96305837°48’49” S 144°57’47” E
Day 37
Turned left instead of right.....
October 6, 2018 in Australia ⋅ 22 °C
Day 33/34
Eventually arrived home after 24 hrs traveling and 5 weeks away.

The journey back started Thursday morning (UK time)- woke feeling dreadful: full of a cold, sinusitis, temp- definitely NOT looking forward to a long haul flight feeling like that😳.

Said a sad sad goodbye to Saddleworth and our family. Very sad to be leaving but knowing it was time to go home as I was finding myself slipping into Oldham speak 😳. Thank you Simon and Hayley for your amazing hospitality and for taking time out of your day to fight with the traffic to take us to the airport.

So after traveling over 1000kms what are our memories of England: a mish mash of motorways criss crossing the country, very narrow roads and laneways, parking in either direction on the road, football madness, awesome country pubs, milkman who deliver milk in bottles to the door and of course fantastic times with friends and family.

After dosed myself up with drugs at Boots we settled into Singapore Airline’s lounge with a glass of pink champagne and bowl of crunchy nut cornflakes 😜 waiting for the first leg of our flight.

On boarding we turned left instead of right and was shown to a little pod that was to be home for the next 14 hrs: jacket taken and hung up, huge leather seat (which opened into a bed), full sized cushion and more storage space than I knew what to do with. Settled in, legs stretched out, glass of champagne in hand, waiting to take off thinking this might just make flying whilst unwell bearable. Started the marathon movie session with a Singapore Sling -would be rude not to given we are flying into Singapore- and the noise cancelling earphone were awesome.

Lunch on white linen table cloth with linen napkin, cutlery, crockery 😳- smoked salmon starter, roast chicken then hazelnut ice cream, with glass of bubbles.

After dinner laid out the bed and settled down with pillow and dooner to finish the movie ‘in bed’.

Breakfast of fresh fruit and crepes with coffee in a mug before landing. Never has a 14 hour flight passed so quickly.

Arrived in Singapore Friday morning (local time), quick shower to freshen up and then relaxed in the lounge whilst waiting for the final leg of our journey.

Business class on this leg of our journey took over the upper level and was not quite as personal or as posh, we were definitely spoilt during the first flight, but comfortable just the same and we finally arrived in Melbourne Fri night local time and with a great drive home tucked up in bed before midnight.

It’s been an awesome 5 weeks and now to save for the next adventure.Read more
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Those skies!!

Road trip through 3 counties

Final Goodbyes

Dovestones

Turned left instead of right.....