first blog
My life is changing pretty fast just now and I thought this blog would be useful to keep in contact with loved ones, people that share my interests and anyone with helpful information for me.
I have lived in a small green Mercedes truck now for 8 years in Lancaster U.K. and have found this life style invigorating, healthy, unbeatable. But now life is changing and I’m going to live on a small island in the pacific next month. It is called Great Barrier Island and is several hours from Aukland, New Zealand by ferry
I would like to find others with interest in the following;- older lone women travellers, yoga, vegetarianism, organic food, birdwatching, being content, quakerism, reading, the Shamanic tradition, reflexology, walking, lots and lots of fresh air and sun shine and finding love along the way
In the next couple of weeks I have to shift a heavy, unwieldy reflexology couch to Great Barrier Island, pack up the truck and my life, go to Perpignan for a wedding, take a freind to London to visit her son…….and try not to panic…….
2nd blog
After a mad few weeks in lancaster running around like a headless chicken - going to a fabulous wedding in Perpignan - and an absolutely great leaving party to which most of the people I loved turned up
Now time has moved on and its 4th of november and I’m in a very noisy internet cafe in Singapore’
It was an awfully long flight - the young couple I was sitting next to were terrified I would talk to them and avoided eye contact for the whole 12 hours - silly arses.
I’d got up at 5.30am and good friend Pete the taxi man came and picked me up 6.30, by the time I got on the plane at 10 I was starving, the lovely crew on Singapore Airlines were committed to getting us drunk fairly quickly and I refused the 4th large glass of wine offered within half an hour. Everyone woke up mid afternoon pretty cranky! spent nearly 2 hours watching “Hairspray” but my screen packed up 10 mins before the end! Spent the next 7 hours watching really great travelouges.
Landed at Singapore in a thick, wet, hot cloud at 6.30 am 2 miles to baggage collection down wide carpeted corridors, as we queued up to have passports checked I saw a sign that said drug traffickers will die by order of singapore law. Had I been a drug trafficker I think I’d have poohed my pants - there was no escape from the queue and security was all around!
Eventuall after much more queueing for everything arrived at the hotel and a beautiful ensuite double room. Hot bubble bath, fluffy towels, great comfortable bed and pillows, clean ironed white linen - next thing I know I woke myself up snoring!
My ankles had been a bit sore and swollen, now they had turned into big rock-hard footballs and were very painful. I had HUGE bags under my eyes crepelous, pendulous - any bigger and I would have been sightless. Walked around the city in the afternoon, very busy, very tidy and nearly everyone spoke english. Went to Tangs store where many women watched cookery displays absolutley spell bound while the store staff told them their skin was crap and if they only used this product they would be sorted, no one seemed to take any offence
I tried to get information on any subject in the city apart from shopping and taxis to get you to the shopping. Eventually found a map - thought they were like gold dust and today I’ve been on the Metro MRT to Little India had a fabulous Indian meal - 8 dishes for $5 (about 2 pounds ) visited a couple of temples and then the Metro again to China town where I had a really cruel reflexology treatment. I realise now my reflexology has been too soft - no more Miss Nice Guy next time I give a treatment!
Had a look around Chinatown where a woman came up to me in a shop poked at my belly and said she could offer me something to get rid of it, as her belly was bigger than mine I took no offence
The noise in here is incredible, I’m off, maybe I’ll write from Aukland or wait until i get to Great Barrier Island, I’m very excited, its 22 degrees and dolphins are playing in the bay ……..ah