Gypsy
A Walk on the wild side/ Hadrian Wall
Posted December 9th, 2017
I told my DH a couple of years ago that I wanted to return to the UK for my 65th birthday which is in Jan 2018. My thought was Sept 2018 for better weather. He hasnt been that keen often saying that we wont be able to afford it or making some plans for 2018. upshot was that i told him we were going regardless.
He then decided that maybe seeing Hadrian Wall would be interesting. He also wanted to do france and Spain as well possiblity Italy, I think he was just putting up things so we really couldn't afford it.We thought that to combine all of that we should put it off until may 2019 only six months further on but longer to save.
He mentioned it to friends when we were in canada and now again while we are in China (friends were also here). They are keen to go also. DF thought we should go May 2018 as we are all getting older, I am the youngest but also probably the least fit of the four.
It had been a whirlwind of organization to pick dates etc that suit all.
We are booked for the walk and deposit paid. Cost for a ten day walk is approx $1000 each includes accom, luggage transferred, breakfasts assistance re the walk.
We are in the process of working out what we are going to do before and after and when we are going to fly into Heathrow.
Europe has been put on hold until 2019 or not at all.
My job now is the get the money together and get fit. So far I havent seen too much of the sites or the accom but the others have, DH is running with it and has had contact with the tour company, I have asked that he sent me all the info as well.
I will be keeping a record of finances and fitness on this blog.
Any thoughts or experiences on this would be appreciated.
Blog Posts by Gypsy
December 2017
- A Walk on the wild side/ Hadrian Wall
November 2017
- Two months in China
August 2017
- A Canadian Trip
May 2017
- Low Carbs High Fat
April 2017
- Round trip to Alice Springs
July 2016
- Two big challenges Losing weight and saving money.
December 2015
- Off around Australia/ the final wash up of costs
July 2015
- Challenges
May 2015
- Room reno
February 2015
- New year plans are they working?
- Change of furniture
December 2014
- Ready for 2015
- Holiday challenges
- Family Chrismas today
- Christmas cut backs means donations
November 2014
- Where did the last two months go?
September 2014
- My challenge for the holidays
- Teacher Aide day
August 2014
- Op shop shopping
- Just when I thought I was going nuts
- We bought a Jeep!
- Alterations
July 2014
- New tops that dont fit!
- Bush Ticks!
June 2014
- End of term
May 2014
- Kids with learning difficulties
- Helping someone inspires me
- The cost of cooking
- Winter finally!
April 2014
- I have just been offered a job!
- Soups for the cooler weather
- Shopping bags
- Chair covers
March 2014
- A very cheap dinner tonight
- Yearly calendar wanted.
- Footy is back!
- A passion fruit vine
- Writing Group
February 2014
- Today I saved $300.
- An easy way to put a smile on someone face
- Losing weight with hypnotherary
January 2014
- Some great buys for our van
- The caravan project
- Buying a caravan off Ebay!
- Volunteering
December 2013
- A crippling back injury
- What a year its been!
- Christmas day was today in our family
November 2013
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- I did a pub crawl!!!!
- Eat fast and live longer
- A different week
October 2013
- Just for me
- What a week (and a bit)
September 2013
- This weeks projects
- Christchurch
- Dunedin
- Queenstown / Te Anau
- Geraldine to Queenstown NZ day four
- New Zealand day three
- New Zealand day two.
- New Zealand trip finally!
- Week five and six
August 2013
- Week four projects
- Week three projects
- Week two projects
- Week 1 projects
July 2013
- Projects.
- Life's good
- Tourists in our own backyard.
- First week of retirement
- Visitors
- Back driving.
- First day of retirement.
June 2013
- Home coming
- Things that I will miss in and about China.
- Sending stuff overseas.
- Checking out the moon!
- Things that I wont miss in China.
- Time to turn a page in life.
- Yang mei/Shang Yu
- Covering all bases (well most)
- Decluttering
- Coffee!
- Handbags.
- What a day!
- Everyone out and about.
- Koalas
- A Chinese House.
- Fuyang
- Museum number two
- Museum 1
- International lunches.
- Green hats
- Second Milk!
- Muffins
- Three weeks to go
- Helping strangers
- Pearl market Zhuji
- Bus trip to Pearl markets
- Bra sizes
- Mixed emotions
May 2013
- Hot,hot,hot!
- Big Rocks!
- City Square
- Balloons
- Hair Art
- Souvenir Shopping
- Subway
- Wetlands
- Early morning ride for photos
- Dinner party
- Dying Stores and New shops
- Broken glasses
- Bamboo underwear
- Gu Sheng
- Night Markets
- Perfumes
- Chinese Hospitals
- Zhuji
- "Aussie Experts"
- Gates (Entrances)
- A Fun day
- My lunch today from the street
- Salad in a plastic bag
April 2013
- A Country Village Chinese style
- Rubbish bins!
- Gangnan Style
- Lu Xun Village
- The Humble Pack of Cards
- Helping out
- Speech competition
- An afternoon of self pampering
- Car seats for littlies
- West Lake hangzhou
- Silk market
- Sports days
- A new Taxi driver.
- A some Pizza for lunch
- Temperatures
- cashmere cardis with photos
- New cardigans
- Summer is here?
- Summer sandals
- Stone Lions/door posts
- Buying an Ebike
- Dinner party
- What do you do when there is no bridge?
- Communal bathrooms
- Mountain scenery
- Lunch in the country
- Bamboo
- Tomb Sweeping Day
- "Unreal" markets
- Chinese Drivers License
- Aussie wines
- Mature aged people
March 2013
- The Bund Shanghai
- Some of my students
- Buying train tickets
- Pot Luck Meal
- Grandparents
- Fruit Tea
- Shen's Garden
- My bad boys class
- Oh, the Fame of it all
- Grocery shopping becoming more expensive
- Sick of Chinese/canteen food!
- Road work is back breaking work
- Military training
- Traditional Hats
- Springtime in China
- A picnic in the park
- Kindergarten Songs
- Outside lesson,what was I thinking!
- Hou Shan Cherry blossum time
- A Sunday morning walk!
- A dying computer.
- International Women's Day
- Donating blood in China
- Out for a ride tonight
- Training students for a speech competition
- Gas Bill
- Evan!
- The Hobbit in English!
- AFL in China
- Getting a replacement banking card
February 2013
- Book store shopping
- Shell shocked!!!
- Work Schedule
- Air conditioners
- Lantern Festival
- Ginger
- Travelling back to China
- Preparing our return
- Update on our flights and trip home.
January 2013
- An Unexpected quick trip to the airport
- Fizz Pizza and Fizz steak.
- Stone's Visit
- Long walk today
- Closing down
- Clebration Lunch
- Australian Open (tennis)
- Come shopping with me (long trip)
- Sun is Shining!
- Characters
- Black hooded boats
- The Office Chair!!!
- Peanut butter/paste
- Snacks
- Money,money,money.
- Soap, shampoo and stuff
- Back streets
- Ukranian Art Exhibition
- Students results from English to Chinese and back again
- To market, to market
- More snow!
- New Years day in China
- Toys'R us
- Across the Bund
December 2012
- New train station
- Snow!
- Markets
- Subway
- Go with the flow
- Christmas party/ New year party/end of term party
- Community Spirit
- Our Christmas dinner
- A Christmas wish granted!
- Harry Potter Uniforms
- Demo lesson and exams
- Pedestrian Crossings
- DongXi
- Convenient openings
- Christmas carols
- Christmas lesson this week
- Photos taken today
- Education System
- Shoes (worn)
- Blogs and Blocks
- J.K. Rowling! Yay!
- Its amazing what you see when out walking
- Maggie, a former student
- Aussie Govt departments
- Drying days
- Cultural differences
- Cold!!!!!
- Glasses!
- Dancing in the streets
- Christmas decs and lunch
- Steak and English salon
November 2012
- Fashion Show
- Star struck!
- Security mayhem
- Tom and Jerry
- Dinner can be a surprise
- Art gallery
- Cashmere and long johns
- Bad things run in threes dont they?
- Monitors
- Company challenges
- Orange picking
- Shanghai, leaving the best to last
- Shanghai Marks and Spencer???
- Shanghai Yu Yuan Gardens
- Shanghai!
- Rice wine
- A toasted Cheese Sandwich
- Chinese Lovers day
- Bike helmets
- What $20 will buy.
- Hot Pot
- Rice
- Tea Fu Sheng
- Living sculptures
- Washing floors
October 2012
- Trick or treat
- Out of Water!
- Rubbish bins An Chang
- Rain, rain and more rain China
- Casualities
- Big Fish
- An Chang China
- Canteens/China
- Downtown at 5pm
- Meet Jimmy my student.
- Frustrations of a teacher!
- Being sick is a bummer, China
- Bath house/foot massage China
- Buildings of China
- Ningbo China
- Trains China
- Country roads China
- The old and the new China
- Drome China
- Shoes China
- Stinky Tofu China
- Minimum housework
- Homemade Pizza
- Rubbish street China
- University sports days/Olympics?
- Opening a bank account!
- Greetings China
- Long hours for students in China
- Public newspapers China
- Sui Chang China bamboo Charcoal
- Beautiful scenery China countryside
- Lesson prep China
- Toilets China
- Hotels China
- Traffic chaos China
- Birthing traditions China
- Moon Cakes China
- China Photographic Musuem
- Teaching on a Saturday! China
September 2012
- Dinner out with friends China
- Thirty (30) in a class China
- Mid Autumn festival China
- Lunch Chinese style
- Day off work in China
- Unpacking winter clothes China
- Buying shoes China
- International Friends China
- Students English names China
- Haircuts in China
- I crashed the bike China
- Foot Massage China
- First day of teaching (in China)
- My Chinese life, buying a printer
- Chinese work schedule
- My Chinese apartment
- My life in China
