I think the sun going down at 10.00 pm is catching up with all of us. No one was up early, and it was after 10.30 before we even got out the door. We've decided to go on a fast boat tour of the Loch Ness. No slow boat cruise for us, we're going to feel the wind in our hair. Sounded fun until Rory, the driver put the girls in protective suits because of how cold it gets at speed on the water, hmmmm not so sure now. All was good, not too cold at all, we had a gr...

A bit of a late start today, we wanted to use these couple of days to relax and this is a great place to do it. We are staying at the Scotland Highland Club, which is an old Abbey converted into apartments. We have a place on the fourth floor, and guess what, no lift, stairs all the way. Lets just say, no one would want to leave something behind when we go out. This is a great apartment and facilities for the kids. Today we walked into the cute little village of...

We're off early today for our trip to Scotland. We went to Mc Donald's for breakfast, yum yum (not). We thought the drive would be about 4-5 hours, but based on our trip from London we are now looking at least 7 hours driving, bring it on. If we knew it was going to take a whole day, we may have changed our plans. The drive is not too bad, it's just long. We stopped at Burger King for lunch eventually, and the kids all said "nooooo". My little experiment has wo...

For the last 3 days we have had no wifi, so I have not been able to keep you up to date with what we have been doing. First day in Hartlepool we did a bit of looking around the town, took the kids to the beach, to places Noel used to hang out at as a kid, the cemetary was one of them !! We were out for a country walk and Noel was showing the kids the stinging nettles and their antedote. He broke off some stinging nettles and chased the kids around telling them t...

Time to leave Paris, boo hoo for me! Goodbye to our lovely little apartment, there is good reason for Paris being one of the most visited cities in the world. The streets are busy, really busy. The grandeur of the city and the extravagance of the buildings is something I am in awe of. Paris is a great city to walk in, there is something unexpected around every corner. We catch the Eurostar to London, a cab to pick up our car and set off for Hartlepool on the Nor...