I have just finished editing all the entries for this blog and going through all the photos. I expect there are still some spelling mistakes and typos. It occurred to me while doing this there were a few references to the "Pub Guide". This is something Pippa and I started doing on my phone as a way to remember the better pubs and where we could take the dog. We decided to grade the pubs for future reference. It is not as extensive as it could be, but here is th...

It is actually about the 3rd of January 2012 when I am writing this last entry for the year. Sticking with the off-exploring site was for 2 reasons. One, many friends in Australia don't have facebook so this is a good way to keep in touch. Secondly, because I really thought that there would be more travelling. But 2011 will go down as one of the least pleasant and successful years in my life. Don't panic I don't intend this to be a depressing entry, but there wa...

It is about time I wrote about our 10th anniversary weekend in Paris. After all it has been a few weeks since we got back and Nenna is due to have her baby tomorrow or the next day so things will get in the way of getting to the computer. We planned having our 10th anniversary in Paris years ago. Even before we moved to England we thought it would be the most beautiful place to go. And thanks to a late payment from Calvary hospital back in March, we could affo...

The International Croissant Eating Weekend (ICEW) was a great success. We managed to eat croissants in 3 countries in 2 days. Though to be honest the French croissant was a let down as we had it on the ferry on the way home. But we were only in France for about 30 mins on the way out. The story begins in the mild mannered village of Marlborough, Wiltshire on a cool evening in a pub called the Ball and Castle. The 3 of us decided a trip to somewhere in France or ...

Pippa and I had been planning this weekend away to Wiltshire for several months. It was coincidental that it ended up being on the weekend of my birthday. Amy came with us having survived other trips away with us including Bodium Castle and Jousting @ Leeds castle. The plan was to visit a lot of the Iron Age sites around Wiltshire and Oxfordshire. Like the photo albums show we went to the White Horse hill carving near Uffington, Oxfordshire. It is remarkable that...