Monthly Archives: October 2006

Photos – Northumberland and Tyneside

These are a colelction of photos taken over the last two years (2004-2006) of various parts of Northumberland and Tyneside. From the quayside to Wallsend, via Tynemouth up the Northumberland coast and into the Cheviots.
Click here to see the full photoset for on Flickr.

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New site

I wrote the below just over two months ago:
It’s 2pm on Wednesday 23rd August. I went cycling at lunch and whilst out and about, I decided to get a blog set up on our web site.
It’s going to be used for logging our around the world trip; both the planning and the trip itself.
I’m using [...]

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Kit list

Over the last few weeks we’ve been buying most of the kit we’ll need for the trip. We’re sticking to a single rucksack each and trying to go as light as possible, however this is tricky given the amount of things we need.
The most expensive items have been:

Sleeping bags, as we went for super light [...]

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Free jabs

Had the “free” jabs yesterday: hepatitis A & typhoid in one arm and polio/diptheria/tetanus in the other. Both arms now aching quite a bit… drove to Jon & Katia’s last night and it hurt to put the pound coin in the tyne tunnel booth (had to stretch out).

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Becs’ first post

Just getting to grips with this blogging business. Paul has been moaning at me for not writing anything yet. Sitting here watching the start of the Great North Run that my friend Maria is running in – Good luck Maria!

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Becs’ first post

Just getting to grips with this blogging business. Paul has been moaning at me for not writing anything yet. Sitting here watching the start of the Great North Run that my friend Maria is running in – Good luck Maria!

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Paul and Becs