Hello and welcome to our blog, which we hope to keep updated with details and pictures of our meandering journey back to London. The plan, if we ever finish packing, goes something like this:Tomorrow, early, we fly to Vancouver where we'll spend a week exploring and gazing across the pacific to Japan where will arrive a week today. We are hoping to squeeze in a quick visit down to Seattle before leaving the continent.
Once in Tokyo we'll walk around in confused circles for a while and look at buildings. We've also booked a night near Mt Fuji as well as a room in Nagoya where we hope to visit Expo 2005. We have a rail pass for three weeks in Japan which is good for bullet trains and much else, and we'll be visiting a series of random places depending on our misinterpretation or otherwise of the timetables.
There is also a vague plan to catch a slow boat to China at some point. We've just picked up some nice red Chinese Yuan which show Chairman Mao wearing a knowing grin. It would be nice to go and see what he is smiling about.
We're due back in Montreal on Thursday 15th September before finally leaving for London on the night of the 19th. Which is my birthday as it happens so I will be a year older and wiser and in a better position to deal with the chaos that inevitably awaits us there. Rachel starts work on October the 3rd.
So it will be a hasty goodbye this evening to Montreal, a city for which our nostalgia has already begun to grow and will doubtless only intensify as the years pass by. We have countless fond memories of this wonderful place and we thank all of you who we've been lucky enough to share them with. We will be back, so stay in touch.
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HI guys I miss zu already!!!
Rachel check your email :-)
Here is a riddle for the Day : You can fly away from me but not escape me. What am I?
Steve + Rachel said...
Gone to the beach to think about it...