Tales from a travelling mafia...I have no idea just lots of planes

Hello!!!
I'm currently in Sydney. You may ask what am I doing here! Well here goes.
As Jacks knows at 10:30 on Tuesday I was sat on the tarmac at Heathrow with plane problems. 2 hours later we take off. Now my connection time in Singapore was an hour so guess what I missed my plane. So in order to not give us hotel funds for the night they decided to reroute us through Sydney to get the 7:30am local plane to Christchurch. So... We were rushed through Singapore to the Sydney flight but that was then delayed while they moved the bags across so we were late to Sydney and missed that connection. Too so now I'm here in Australia will have to send you extra postcard abuse! And now for some photos.
The only compensation is that I'm sat in the business lounge with free Gin!!!!

Tales from the travelling mafia. Flying

I feel like a moron I have joined the giant headphone brigade but at least I have my new headphone hoody to match I could be listening to millions of things at one. Well it's nearly slow torture time known as sitting on a plane for longer than I care to imagine. One small consolation is I won't have to listen to the Ryanair gibberish that might kill me :(.
Missing you already!!!

Mafia Travel Day 3- I made a rage!

Tales from the travelling mafia-day 1

Dear Saffy,
Today I have travelled 300 miles south. I still find it weird that zigzagging across the country is quicker but there it is. I'm pretty sure if my satnav was animate it would try to kill me as I ignored it the whole way. I guess it should be honoured I switched it on really as I know where I'm going for the most part. It was running through my head as I drove down that the woman would get angry and just switch off in a huff. Maybe satnavs should do that?
I missed having the Saffy CDs in the car kinda, but I'm glad it's not the backstreet boys despite your desperate attempts to start up a boy band in the office. I assume when I get back you and Conor will have the dancing down and be working on the fashion. Just remember to keep your knees together. It did mean that I got to listen what to you would have been 6 hours of non stop run to the hills although I can assure you it's not!
I waved at Runcorn even though you're not there.
I guess that's all to report for today it's not a very exciting trip the motorway is still there and as usual it was wet and windy all the way down. At least I have a kitteh to entertain me now despite the fact it doesn't have a love of boxes like maru. I'll shall photograph him and put him on this post for you to see later.
Mafia ho!!!

Mafia Board 16/01/12

Edit: Project for Saffy: Modern Art as she's the only one not travelling this week.

Mafia History: Dairsie and the book of towns page 1

Being a Cupar based Mafia we usually must travel from Cupar to St Andrews for work. For a rather long period of time the back road was closed and as such every morning we would have to travel through Dairsie.
This wouldn't be a problem but on such a nice straight bit of road you resent breaking from 60mph to 30mph down to 20mph to go through it especially since there is nothing there.
After a few months of being annoyed at Dairsie's existence we started to make a game of driving through and spotting the things Darsie has to offer. A few weeks later after a trip to Glasgow and back we were off comparing small town commodities to those of Dairsie and as such a travel challenge arose.
Much like the Michelin ISpy books of our childhood for every town we drive through we have a book containing check lists in, comparing everything to our now beloved Dairsie.
Page1:

Town	Pub	School	Bus Stop	Park	Shop	Phonebox	2 Others	Better Comparable Worse
Dairsie	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Garage, B&B, Church	Darsie
Star	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Takeaway, 2nd School	Comparable
Balmullo	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Farm	Worse
Guardbridge	Y (hotel)	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Chipshop, Pineshop, Hairdressers, Beauticians	suprisingly better
Leuchars	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	RAF Base, Station, ATM, Fife cycle centre, double glazing	Better
St Michaels	Y (Hotel)	N	Y	N	N	Y (Emergency AA)	Golf Course, B&B, Clay Pigeons	Worse
Pool of Muckhart	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Pub, Coffee shop, B&B, Church	Comparable
Forgan	N	N	Y	N	Y(Stoves)	N	Garage, Church	Worse
Bow of Fife	N	N	Y	N	Y	Y	Church	Worse

Page 1 - The Mafia's guide to towns comparable to Dairsie

This has also started us on having our photos take with signposts of these towns

And we even gifted a Dairsie jigsaw to Becca.

After a while we discovered Drum. It has an awesome name, so we have to go there. Much to our disappointment there was absolutely nothing there. No sign of a bus stop, nothing.  We'd reached a new low of town rubbishness. So now a new challenge began to find towns comparable to Drum. A much shorter list started.

In honour of Drum, towns with cool names but absolutely nothing there.

Drum
Pickletillum
Moonzie
Tay Bridge
Ratho Station

We are working hard on our guide book of places not to visit hoping that our mafia faction in Germany and upcoming travel results in this becoming an international guide book. Of course the book has to look the part too.

So that's page 1 and the beginning of the adventure, further pages will appear at some point when one of us can be bothered to type up a table.