Up'n' Atom....and not too late either, that's because we'd had a pact that everyone was tucked up in bed by 01.30am last night and amazingly enough we had all managed to keep to it. Everyone had slept well with help from our old friend Mr. Booze, so now we had convened to head out for breakfast. The place chosen was wittily titled "The Flying Pan" on the corner of Fenwick Street & Lockhart Road - To get there though, it was time to showcase the MTR, Hong Kon...

After an uneventful flight (which are in my opinion, the best ones) we landed in Hong Kong around 5.30 pm. Chek Lap Kok Airport is huge and you realise this when you board a train that takes you to Immigration & Customs. It takes about 20 minutes in all, from the plane to baggage carousel. It's all silky smooth going through immigration although oddly, Grant doesnt get given a visa but is just waived through. We think this is something to do with being born i...

We left home (Eventually) around 12.40 pm and Grant decided to drive, usual story of stopping off for gas etc, and we then hit the M4 about an hour later. I decided to drive from the service station just before Reading, the roads werent too bad, some congestion on the major London turn off juntion but generally not too shabby. We got to Heathrow around 3.30pm. Checking in wasnt too painful either. This is a bit of a novelty for us as normally we're running late a...

Dia Cinco. Despite Alcuida being in the top north of the island, it doesnt take that long to get there, probably because it's a tourist hot spot. There's a motorway that goes straight from Palma to Alcuida and it only took about an hour to get there. This place is worth a visit, initially the area was inhabited by Phonenicians and Greeks, then settled by the Romans as far back as 132 BC! Vandals, Byzantines and Arabs all came to tear the place apart and eventall...

Dia Cuatro. The island of Mallorca has had a pretty bloody history really, everyone back in Blighty thinks of it as one of those places to go for a cheap beach holiday, but get off one's bottom and head North Easterly and you can catch up on some of the more exciting things that happened here. Pirates from the Ottoman Empire and Berbers from North Africa would show up regularly and treat the place as if it was Market Day, they would steal, pillage, ransack the v...