I hope everyone had a fantastic holiday season celebrating (Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanza, Festivus, Solstace, etc.) and are excited to bring in the new year.

Things went well here, besides the food coma CW and I ended up in. On Christmas morning we’d already exchanged gifts (iTouch for me and new camera for him) so we went downstairs to greet CW’s dad, girlfriend, and her family. We opened some presents with them, had a quick cup of tea, then headed over to the Care Home to visit Grandma RW.

Then we went to CW’s aunt’s house for present-giving with CW’s mom’s side of the family. One aunt has three small boys so present-giving is always quite the affair. After that, we headed back to CW’s dad’s house for Christmas Lunch at about 4:00pm. By 7:00pm we were back at Aunty LM’s having Christmas Dinner. As I said, food coma… but lots of great company and everything went smoothly.

Now that all the Christmas rush is over, I’m preparing to do my travelling in the new year. I’m planning to travel from January 4th to 22nd while CW is revising for his exam(s). I’ve got a long list of places to go, but on the top of the list is Stratford-Upon-Avon, Stonehenge, Bath, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, and York.

I’ll come back to Manchester a couple times and I have to use London as a travel-base for some of the cities, but it should be all right. The trains are superb here (compared to at home) and as it is the off season, I don’t need to book hostels far in advance.

I’ve got a lot that I need to blog about, so keep your eyes peeled and locked on the blog. I didn’t bring my laptop here (as I’ll be travelling) so CW is kindly sharing his with me.

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