Medieval Re-enactments are something I thought I would not really enjoy. I thought they would be full of very socially inept "Dungeons & Dragons" players who use it to venture out of the house once a year. But here in England they are set against real medieval castles, rather than "Tudor" pubs in Gold Creek. So as Pippa had tickets to see Toots and the Maytals in concert in Brixton, Amy and I went out to Leeds Castle in Kent to see a Jousting Tournament follo...

As money was tight there for a while I decided to do some less expensive things around London. From my phone I had a free walking tour app. I started out on the Harry Potter Walking Tour. It toured the sights around London were scenes form the movies were filmed. For the most part it was a few buildings that were in the back ground of shots, so it was a let down. I always knew that Australia House was the building that Gringotts was based on, but the only other...

It was probably one of the last warm days of the summer, not that we knew that at the time. Pippa and I left London and headed down an A road followed by an M road and found our way to Wilmington near Long Man, East Sussex. The long Man is a chalk hill carving in East Sussex down near the coast. Most of England's hill carvings are in Wiltshire and are horses, but this is a giant with 2 long sticks. So we set off to see it. We spent a slow trip out of London as ...

I use to ride to work in Australia on my mountain bike. But that was all paved with only the occasional bump left by the dedicated workers of the Belconnen council. But this was a whole new deal. Pippa, Nick (Pippa's cousin) and I went to Bedgebery Pinetum near Flimwell in Kent for a ride. Bedgebery is a pine plantation that has been converted in some places into a Mountain bike/walking park. Really a good idea as it serves a duel purpose while the trees are wai...

Given that Pippa and I have been really broke for the last few weeks, we have done very little in the way of going out and sightseeing. But as the rain of the past few days finally cleared we headed off to the Tower of London. Something we have wanted to do for a while now. We went to the Tower 7 years ago when we were in England for Christmas and did not see inside the White Tower as the queues were very long, probably to escape the cold. We did see the Crown J...