Snowboards and snow trip!

Well, we’ve now committed to a 2-month snowboarding trip over Christmas 2010 and New Year 2011, probably covering the entire of the Alps.  So to celebrate we went out and bought some new snowboarding gear – and Mel has even gone a bit girly with “rock-chick-pink” boots (*not* Barbie pink!).  So new boards, boots, bindings and bags all sorted by Snowtrax in Bournemouth who gave us a very fair deal on everything as well as spending a lot of time with us.  And of course, the boards fit perfectly in our box!

Just need snow tyres now and we’re good to go – only, erm, 9 months to go L

New Plans

Sorry for being quiet - lots going on sadly which is keeping us in the UK. We'll be home till the end of April now, but after that depends on fate, luck and the direction of the wind!!

We have though made plans through to May 2011, including planning to go snowboarding for 2 months over Christmas 2010 and New Year through to 2011 then a complete opposite trip to head over to Morocco and the desert!

Watch this space, but rest assured, we've no plans to fall into full time work for a while yet! :)

Autoroute 2010 now available!

At last! After waiting 3 years from Autoroute 2007, the 2010 verison is now available. This includes massively updated maps and POIs and a load of new usability features. As usual you can link in with a GPS receiver, and now the display is more TomTom like as it shows the routes in 3D and does automatic rerouting. At last!!

My POIs will in future only be published in this version.

Full details are available via the links below. The more expensive version is exactly the same as the cheaper version but also includes a GPS receiver. If you only want to look at the maps and manaully plot your course (or already have a GPS on your PC) then you only need the cheaper one.

Inspirational Books

OK - people say we were inspirational to them - but here are a couple of items that inspired us to do what we do! Really quite good reading and recommended to read. Some good and some silly ideas, but inspirational nevertheless!

(Clicking links will take you to the item on Amazon with us as the advertiser)

Amazon Links to help us!

Hi!
Below is a link to Amazon. If you fancy it, please use this banner (or any other on this site) and though you will pay the same price, Amazon give us a few pence! If enough people do it then hopefully it'll pay for the sites hosting, or even better for a tank of diesel!
So click below and get spending!
Thanks very much!
Ryan & Mel

Merry Christmas and THANK YOU SANTA!!!!

Merry Christmas to all, and hope that you get as nice a present as Santa just delivered me.

For those in the know, The 12 year project - Plan A has taken one of the biggest steps forward – only the final few steps to go!

(PS Thanks to all those involved for their contribution to this!)

Home now for a bit

Well Trip 6 to Budapest and back via South Germany and Austria is over.  We’re back in one piece and had quite an experience!  Lovely trip but probably best enjoyed before most things close!  Probably have to chase the sun again next winter!

Looking at our map of Europe we seem to be covering quite a bit of it!  But still, there is sooo much more to see.  So much of Europe and so little time.  Ah – okay – the last bit isn’t quite fair....

We’re probably around now till end of February as we have some projects that require our attention back home, the outcome of which should make 2010 the most interesting year to date!

So to all our friends we’ve not been around to see – hope to catch up soon!

And MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone!

 

Ryan & Mel