The Adventures of Cholly

 When I got back from travelling mid-January, I had a bit of spare time before I started my new job, so I decided to have a bit of a clear out of my wardrobe. There isn’t a lot of space for all my clothes at Chris’ mum and dad’s house, so I decided I was going to take all my summer clothes back to my mum and dad’s house, to store whilst I didn’t need them. I also had a lot of clothes I didn’t wear anymore that I was going to take to the charity shop, so I used one of those big blue Ikea bags and on one side I put the clothes I was going to take to the charity shop and on the other side the clothes for home.      I’m going to blame jetlag and travelling blues for what happened next…   When I took the bag back home my mum asked what needed doing with it and I said, ‘it’s for the charity shop’… Oops!! I didn’t think anything of it until the time came to get the summer clothes out and I realised, oh god, I’ve given all my clothes away!   On one hand I was gutted because I ha

Our weekends aren’t always that exciting but when they are, I’ve decided to let you know what we get up to, so here’s what we did two weekends ago. First of all, you need to know that I LOVE rides. Chris loves them too, not so much before, but definitely after he’s been on them! We’ve talked about going to Thorpe Park for a while now and having both enjoyed days out at Alton Towers over the years, we’ve been dying to see what Thorpe Park has to offer. We were due to go down to London that weekend anyway because Lincoln City FC were playing at Wembley on the Sunday (they won!), so we decided to make a weekend of it and combine it with a visit to Thorpe Park. I managed to find a great deal on Expedia for ‘The Bridge Hotel’ in Chertsey, which worked out at £81 for a double room for two nights – bargain! It didn’t include breakfast but that didn’t matter to us as we were going to be up and out early on both days. Given the price the hotel was great and it’s literally a 5-minute d

So, since we've been home from our travels for just under three months, I've had a bit of time to reflect on everything and I thought I'd take some time to share some 'pearls of wisdom' that I've learnt to help those of you who are thinking of travelling too!   1. Go with the flow, even if it doesn't come first nature to you If there's one thing I love more than anything it's being planned and writing lists, so going travelling was always going to be a big thing for me because of course, not everything will go as planned and part of the enjoyment is not having a plan at all and just taking each day as it comes! In New Zealand and Australia we generally stuck to plans as we were tight on time and wanted to make sure we saw and did everything we wanted to do. However, when we got to Indonesia and South East Asia, for most of the time, we didn't really have a plan, at least not a day or two ahead, and I was actually really happy about it!