The Longest Holiday i've ever had.............

Really, it can. For starters - their signage which I know i've already mentioned, and i'm going to mention again. Written at Wimbledon Tennis - "Taps not for drinking". Well! o great revelation there. If you drank a tap you'd choke! ...

 

Our 2007 UK and Europe Trip

This trip took us further south west of Norwich than we have to date with our first stop, Sudbury and more specifically the Thomas Gainsborough Museum. Gainsborough was born in 1727 and went on to become England’s foremost portrait and landscape artis...

 

Journies in a Beamer

Canterbury, Rye, Battle, Southampton, Romsey, Isle of Wight, Winchester, Stone Henge, Sailsbury, Stratford-upo-Avon, Oxford, Warwick. That's about all there is to tell really. It happened so long ago I can't be sure if anything funny happened, in fa...

 

Uk Summer 2007. In name only.

Five go biking in Hertford. Train up to Hertford, bit of bike riding, bit of beer drinking. Solved the mystery of the abandoned railway track. Enough adventure to fill a children's novel. Huzzah!...

 

The Big Oh-Eee

I drank more Guinness than I have ever even SEEN in my life, but it would be rude to go to Dublin and not have one! Plus it was the cheapest drink in every pub which is the main reason we kept drinking it rather than switching to something else! ...

 

London, July 2006 update

May - mid July The weather has dramatically improved since a damp flat BBQ in early May and I can now once again see the blue sky and daylight after work (and all too early on a Saturday/Sunday morning!). The atmosphere of London dramatically ch...

 

U.K

We spent the day in Greenwich on Saturday with my sister Elissa and her boyfriend Luke. We started out at one of the pubs there and had some lunch and a couple of pints. We then headed up to the observatory which is in a park up on a hill. You ge...

 

Our big trip

Gavin’s bit: The Hilton put on a great breakfast spread, and after Sam polished off about three courses we eventually made our way back out onto the M3, shooting down to Portsmouth. Today we visited the Royal Navy’s base down on the Solvent. Abou...

 

Flaming Hampshire

"Burning things is always fun" was how Alf summed up the evening... it's an accurate, if somewhat worrying assessment. Having built the bonfire, we were alarmed to see it had completely burnt down within 45 minutes, worrying because it was bi...

 

First London trip April/May 2006

On Friday afternoon we caught the Tube to Richmond where Helen met us at Costa's for coffee. She presented us with the most gorgeous flower bedecked box of choccies from Whittard's of Chelsea. We walked along the river while we waited for Claudette to ...

 

Exchange 06/07

so flight was rather unveventful most interesting thing was my flight attentents name was Poo. yeah thought it was funny... got lots of free alks yeww! had a stop over in japan sayed in a like 5 star hotel its was cool. It had a toilet that squirted wa...