Hello All, We hope everyone is well and enjoying the nice weather we hear you're getting. On a bank holiday weekend too!!!! Thanks again for looking at our site. We had a lot of feedback about the Cook Islands and everyone thought it looked amazing. You're all right - It was!!!! We've been very busy since we updated you last hence the longer than normal delay. We both received messages from family and friends telling us to get our act together and update...

Hello there everyone... Our apologies for the delay in updating our site. I can assure everyone we're both alive and very well. We've that had the greatest access to t'internet recently, that is our excuse. That and we've been having a fantastic time!!!! When we updated you last we had just got to LA. That's a great place and part of it almost seems like a fantasy land. I suppose Hollywood is in a way!!! We were joined in LA by Julie's Dad and his wife De...

Hello everyone, hope you are all well! Alan has finally let me loose on a blog page!!!!!! We have been really busy since our last blog post and we are currently on an Amtrak train to LA. I'll just tell you a little bit about these trains as they are very different to the usual virgin trains. First of all the leg room and the size of the seats are enormous!!!Alan looks like the little man off Little Britain sitting on the big chair! (Write the theme tune , s...

Hi everyone...we're still alive!!!! When we posted last we were staying in an interesting hotel. It didn't appear to be the safest but we survived. I think we must have booked on the weekend of the Gangster Conference 2008. Barring that weekend we had a wonderful time in Austin. It's a really great place and seemed a slower pace than elsewhere in the US. We saw plenty of it whilst walking about the downtown area. We spent a lot of time on 6th street which is t...

Hi everyone.... Firstly let us apologise for the delay in updating our blog. We've had a few people ask us what was going on but you'll be pleased to know we've been flat out the last week or so and just couldn't find the time to do it properly. The last time we left a post we were still in Chicago with one day to go. That day was spent in the Field Museum where we had a fantastic time. It's like the Natural History Museum in London so there was plenty to ...