2015 July 13 « Geoffs Life After Work !

Here we go (almost) OUR BIG TOURING HOLIDAY

FOUR sleeps to take off after 4 days visiting family and friends in Perth we set of for Japan & the CourtyardMarriot Ginza Hotel for a few days and will include trips to Mount FUJI and a ride on the fantastic Bullet Train ! Annie is trying to get me to Manga dress up and do a Karaoke Booth !! dunno about that we will see. THEN we make our way to Yokohama on the Diamond Princess Cruiser for a spin around Japan and a very quick visit to Korea (MERS allowing!)

Next move will take us to London to meet up with son Michael and 2 weeks in the Capital taking in shows.. Sunday Afternoon (Kinks Story) Let it Be ( Beatles Story) Harry Potter Studios,Buckingham Palace The BBC Radio & TV Studio,s lots of Pubs ( hopefully with Karaoke!) and probably a lot more (We are staying at West Ham Football Ground Hotel

NEXT quick flight to the Emerald Isle of Ireland and a car hire will take us to places (after a few days in Dublin) Kilrane,Castlemartyr Midleton,Glengarriff Cork,Dingle (not Liverpool !Limerick ( there was a woman fromLimerick Oh dear I’ll have to stop these awful Limericks!) Salthill,BallinaCarrick on Shannon (It has to be said Annie has ordered FULL Irish Breakfast EVERY morning! THEN Ferry cross the Irish Sea to Holyhead …then hire car will take us across country via Derbyshire and York to Scarborough on onto Blackpool where I will meet up with some of my very large family and NO doubt copious amounts of alcohol (bugga the Heart & Diabetes diseases !) BLACPOOL my home town where lots of memories are mine forever and we will take in an International One Dayer between England & Australia a visit to the set of Coronation St (Annies making me go here!) A Tour around one of Blackpools iconic entertainment venues the Opera House & Winter Gardens ,finally a visit (all being well) to see me Great Granson Oscar !!BUT wait ! there’s more after saying our last goodbyes its out of Heathrow onto

Singapore for a few days (nothing organised there yet) and then HOME after around SIXTY FOUR days full on and making Billy Bunter (for those in the know) look very Slim !!! Blog will be updated regularly when we get under way (WIFI allowing)