Hi Sam .Brill pics of bungie jump you got more spunk than me!!enjoy your flight to oz , not too much booz onboard (stupid question)Keep on having fun. Look after yourself .

Love Mr Uncle x x x

Hope the ipod is still going well - get some Brucie down your ears on that bus!!

lots of love

Mum xxxx

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Hola Samual!! Wow I found the message board at last!! Glad to hear you are having a wicked time, the photos look ace! And how random you saw Amy Strether?! You have got me thinking about my boring little life now, so I have been to STA Travel to check out Thailand and Vietnam holidays! Pheebs says that she is going that way in about Feb, but I think it may be a bit too early for me!! I hope you enjoyed your Birthday?? Anyway, sorry I've been lame at keeping in touch but now I know how to send a message you can't stop me! Keep the photos coming....Miss you loads Lots of Love HP x x x

Hi Sam,

Mum and I have just looked through your pictures and reckon you're having the time of your LIFE! I've got kennel cough at the moment so I'm not too well. Mum has to take me out for walks on my lead and I can't run far. Dad says to say hi too. We're all missing you and I'm saving you some gravy bones for when I see you again.

Love and licks,
Lola

Hi from sunny Harrogate, just seeing if this works, looks fab very jealous xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Great pics - glad you found the kiwi at last (random bird!)

How are your walking boots faring - I'll have to put up the before pic sometime!!

Just off to try to rescue some music for your poor frozen ipod. If anyone knows a short cut around it or how to compact and send electronically - get in touch (Wes??)

Lots of Love Mum xxxxx

WELL JEALOUS of the snow, wish i was boarding with you mrs!!!

Great snaps Sam carry on having a ball.

Love Gail x

aaahhhh I see, I use this to get in touch! Well I've sent you a msg on facebook, so read that instead. Good job on the photos samwell. i'm finally on the net in my new house so communications with the outside world can begin! keep in touch xxxxxxxxxxxx

yo yo spam. i see u gettin up to lots of fun u nutter :)

ive book ed me holiday to ibiza whoop whoop.

wether not warm it its proper gay :s.

keep havein fun hunxxxxx

oh an steph pregnant :)

Hi Sam,Hope you had a great birthday, your Dad said by the sound of it you were all enjoying it. By now your Mum and Dad should have arrived in Switzerland, so hope they enjoy their week. Martyn is in the Maldives with David Roberts scuba diving, did you know that Bryony David's daughter has been over there a long time teaching scuba diving so she will be glad to see them both. Robert is somewhere on the continent for a month with his pal, so my family are all over the world just now. I am going to have my 1st cataract operation on Monday and Kirsty has kindly said she will bring me home. Then on Wednesday we are both going to the Kestral for a meal in the evening. I am glad you have had snow and enjoying your snow boarding. The weather here is terrible, I should have been going to our scottish dancing barbecue this evening but of course rain has put a stop to that.You certainly sound as if you are having a great time and staying with Phillippa, please give her my love.It will soon be time for me to get my tea so will sign off until next time, continue to enjoy life. Lots and lots of love from Grandma Pegxxxx

Hi Sam. Greetings from Brian & Beryl in Ottawa - staying with our daughter Carolyn - who did a similar trip around the world in 1992 - at the age of 21. She remembers Queenstown where she did a bungey jump - quite an experience!! After 8 weeks in NZ she then went to Oz for 3 months - including working for some time in a Bar near to rocks in Sydney.

She envies your easy communication and access to the internet to get info on where to go. She had to rely on people she met along the way. She had a great time and says you will meet many folk doing the same circuit. But she still came home to the UK and took up a job in Manchester for a few years - before emigrating to Vancouver - a place she found on her trip. So perhaps you will find your future home too - but better if not quite so far away from Harrogate!

Good luck - take care not to absorb too much of the Oz culture - or their beer!