Every journey has a beginning, and we are soon to begin ours by traveling around China for a few weeks, before carrying on to New Zealand.
What is Project Koru? The code name of our "great escape" from our adopted home in the UK to spend a year living and working in New Zealand. You can find an introduction to the project here together with an explanation of why we chose the koru as the symbol for our journey.
Thanks and farewell
We are in the throes of packing and disconnecting form our usual routines. Bess has emigrated to Germany and we understand is making good progress training her new servants. The computer has to be boxed up and soon we will unplug from the net; it's probable we'll be out of contact for a month or so.
Thanks to those of you who made it to our farewell gatherings in Frankfurt and Chesterfield, and to those who sent good wishes. We've meet and worked with some fine people during our time thus far in the UK, and we look forward to seeing you again on our return.
Auf Wiedersehen. A good journey to you all.
Site housekeeping
The site will hopefully stay online during our absence; filters and a guest administrator should keep the comment spam to a minimum. IOTW (image of the week) posts will continue, as Bruce has been organized enough to pre-write a number of posts and set WordPress to publish these in-absentia. He hopes.
Unplugging in... 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
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I'd be happy to meet you if you'll be in Beijing and have some spare time for tea or coffee.
Hi Kevin; we will be passing thru Beijing during our organised tour. Would be great to hear about life in China from a "local" ;-)
I'll e-mail you with a suggestion... perhaps we can organize China's first Former iBlog User Meetup?
Hi Bruce and Simone,
How is it going out there? Things are pretty much the same here...lots of plans and nothing moving, though the nights are drawing in the days are still reasonably warm.Missing you here at Ashlodge Bruce..Keep in touch
Brendan
Brendan you make it sound as if we've been gone several months already—not one week! This hotel in Xi'an offers 24 hour wireless Internet for 50 yuan; that's a few pounds to you and me, so I can get my fix (although the connection is very slow and intermittent). We had our first rain today, and tomorrow look forward to seeing the terracotta army. One of our group has already passed out... but this time it wasn't me! Regards to everyone.