43 hours on a bus is a long time! Especially when you consider that in around 7 hours you could go from brighton to scotland! We tried to only sleep at night on the bus, to avoid mucking up our sleep patterns too much. Its pretty safe to say that theres not a lot to do on a greyhound bus, we spent most of the time reading, listening to music or talking to some of the other people on the bus. Lots of them were going to Vancouver which is near on a week of travelli...

After a long 7 hour bus journey we arrived in the city of Montreal. We stupidly didnt book a hostel for the first night and after phoning the only hostel we had the number for we thought we were pretty screwed. Luckily we had a friend that lived just down the road from the bus station, we managed to get in touch with her and she let us use her computer to find other hostels in the city. She also let us leave the board bag at hers so we didnt have to lug it to the...

So this is our first entry whilst out of the country, and so far we’ve visited 2 major cities in Canada, Toronto and Montreal. We landed in Toronto on March 13th, from there we hopped on a bus which took us within walking distance of our first hostel, that being said it didn’t make it any easier finding it, as the first thing we did was walk for 4 blocks in the wrong direction. We asked for directions, and got no where, only when we decided to just walk the ...

So this is nearly it! Three days to go, just in the process of sorting out stuff thats coming with us. Its a bit surreal that this time next week we'll be in canada and this whole thing will have begun, its allways been so far in the future i've never really believed the people who've said that it would all come around really quickly. Had the work leaving do's on sunday night, partyed with the best of the best and im going to miss all of them! Thanks to all the...