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Our First Post!

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Hi all!

Laura and I are setting off on our biggest trip yet on Friday 30th July!  We’ll be away for nearly 3 months and it will take us through China, Mongolia, Russia, Norway, Finland and a little bit of Denmark and The Netherlands.  I’m leaving Rocksteady Studios and have a new job at Frontier Developments in Cambridge starting in November.  Laura has a sabbatical from LIFT and will be going back afterwards but we’ll be moving to Cambridge and I’ll have a vegetable patch.

Amongst other things I’ve spent the last few evenings (while Laura’s been busy with the LIFT festival – getting her hair ‘cut’ by 8 year old children and the like) putting together a map of our travels.

We’ve been calling it Mega Trip 2010 so far but maybe The Kazakhstan Circular might be better?!

Here is the map!

We’re going to be adding blog/blab entries as we go along as it’ll be a lot easier for everyone than trying to make calls from crazy places!!!

Right, we’d better get packing…

Ben and Laura

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11 responses to “Our First Post!”

  1. Laura avatar
    Laura

    Please leave comments on our posts if you’d like to get in touch / request postcards / question how Ben will keep a vegetable patch alive when all our houseplants die…

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  2. Rory avatar
    Rory

    Where is this map I’ve been promised? Don’t build up peoples expectations Mr Nicholson.

    I’m extremely jealous about Mobgolia by the way and I don’t get travel envy often.

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  3. Rory avatar
    Rory

    I meant Mongolia, not some Italian mafia based place.

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  4. Hannah and Joe avatar
    Hannah and Joe

    Woohoo!! Thank you for the blog, such a good idea – we really loved the map you had put together too. Can really picture you two now!
    Ofcourse your best destination is second to last…fabulous Hull! You’re taking the scenic route to get there but it’ll be worth it I know 😉
    Have a wonderful time – we will be following you along the way.
    Sending you off with lots of love,
    Hannah and Joe xxx

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  5. Ben avatar
    Ben

    If you click on “Here Is The Map!” in the first post or on “Mega Trip 2010 Map” on the right hand side it will take you to the map in google maps so you can zoom in and out on bits of it.

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  6. Rory avatar
    Rory

    I was tired when I wrote that. I therefore apologise and subtract my statement.

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    1. Laura avatar
      Laura

      But what Ben isn’t telling you is that he changed it to say “Here is the map”!!

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  7. Ben avatar
    Ben

    Details, details…

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  8. Rory avatar
    Rory

    I knew it. You made me look daft Ben and I’m no mug. Good job we’re related and you give me free computer games.

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  9. Jo avatar
    Jo

    Have a wonderful trip! See & do lots of amazing things. Remember to take your thermals and a pack of playing cards (Motherly tips!) xxx

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  10. Jean avatar
    Jean

    Just one last trip to the warehouse Mr Vanman then it’s off to the airport and the start of three glorious months! Take plenty of photo’s, especially of the new haircuts! Still ruminating over Ben and his vegetable patch……
    Lots of love, Muv xxx

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