Had a very royal day today, and how does a good royal start their day? In Buckingham Palace of course. With Mrs. Queen away on holidays in Scotland, Sally and I thought we would pop over and have a look at her joint in London. Talk about fancy, I mean it's not quite my room, but it's okay. No, it is actually super fancy with loads of guilding on the walls, very old and precious furniture (including a table that took 6 years to build) and even a collection of Fabe...

Full on day today, plenty to tell. After a sleep in we formulated a plan. That plan was to live out (almost) one of my boyhood dreams, we were going to Lords! We got our new weekly train tickets and headed off to see the holy of holies, and arrived just in time to jaw a look around the museum, wow, and jump into a guided tour. This tour took us everywhere but onto the playing field. We saw the committee room, the famous long room (which is so full of wonderful hi...

The last day of our tour today, it was sad but I was looking forward to getting out on our own. Our major stop for the day was in Stratford-upon-Avon. This place is famous for one main reason, William Shakespeare. It isn't as over re top as you would might think, not everything is named after him or his plays but there where enough places (Othello's Bar for instance) to let you know he was from around here. We saw a few monuments to him, there is one major one ne...

Second last day on tour today which is good and bad, can't wait to be on our own. We left Scotland and can back to the mother country today, on our way we stopped at a town with an old abbey, at a service station and York. We will talk about York as the others were boring. York is a old fortress town which still has it's walls. It is home to Yorkminster which is an old cathedral that has very nice bells and the biggest stained glass window in Europe. It has a lot...

After today I have a real urge to watch Braveheart again. We went to Edinburgh Castle this morning after a quick tour around the new city which is a Georgian city. We saw the house of the man who invented antiseptic surgery, where Robert Louis Stevenson was raised and the island he used as inspiration for Treasure Island. We also where told about the story of Deacon Brodie, the man who inspired the story of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde. We passed the first minis...