Had a relaxing day today, although we had a few things to organise. We had to send another box of goodies home. We also had to drop the hire car back, so we now are stuck using public transport! We also had to book our transfer from Portsmouth to London. After we had organized all that we went on a harbor cruise, not quite Sydney Harbour, the port here is mainly for commercial vessels and home to the British Navy. We saw some new battle ships but to be honest w...

Travelled to Portsmouth today, on the way we came across a castle! Surprise, surprise. So we decided to make a slight detour and take a look. Arundel castle is the home of the 18th Duke of Norfolk, pretty impressive! the weather was pretty bad, it fact Brighton was experiencing the tail end of cyclone Irene, it was a windy couple of days and unfortunately it has followed us to Portsmouth. We got to Portsmouth pretty late in the day, but we did manage to get a f...

Decided to stay in Brighton today to do some local sightseeing. Our hotel in on the waterfront so we strolled along the pier this morning to get the city sightseeing bus. We hopped off at the Brighton Marina and had a look around and rejoined the bus back into town. We visited the Brighton Pavilion which to the uninitiated is a rather out of place building in the middle of some fine Georgian and Victorian buildings. However once inside we were awestruck by the...

Big travel day today, we under estimated the distance and the fact we had to drive around London to get to our final destination! We arrived in Brighton late in the day, it was raining and windy, yesterday's weather was obviously a fluke. We had trouble finding the hotel as it is on the beach front, lots of closed roads and Sarah had to drive down some tricky streets to finally arrive at the hotel. Our little detour through London took us past the Olympic site...

We traveled outside Norwich to the Norfolk Broad area, we did a cruise along the broad(lake canels) the houses along the banks were stunning! We then traveled further afield to Sandringham the Queens summer place. Liz and Phil were not home but we managed to have a look around anyway! The gardens were spectacular. Probably the best news was the weather 26 degrees:) Sarah even got sunburn (slightly). It was great to see another side of a major city, we enjoyed t...