Northern Italy and the French Riviera Cinque Terre 9th & 10th July We arrived in Italy via Pisa airport and it was hot and sunny, just as we had expected. Pisa airport is quite small but only a 2 min train ride into the central station. From there we changes trains to head to La Speizia, the gate way to our first destination, the Cinque Terre (five fishing villages). We had to change trains again at La Speizia to get to the fishing village we had chosen t...

IRELAND Belfast City 30th June 2009 Tonight we arrived in Belfast, greeted by an overweight taxi man who proceeded to tell us about the bad youth hostels in Belfast swearing in every sentence. Luckily he finished his story telling us that the one we were about to stay in was actually one of the nice one’s. Once we were checked in we took a walk around the city and the waterfront. Belfast – Dublin 1st July 2009 After Craig had picked up our rental car we ...

Ryan Air was having another sale this time with £1 flights so we took advantage and booked flights to Paris. We arrived into small Beauvais Airport, much smaller than we expected, and caught the shuttle into Paris that took 1 hour. It was a nice trip, France is so different to England, it was not until we were about 45 minutes into the trip that we even got a hint of heading to a big city. It was so much green and trees for most of the trip in. We arrived in ...

We took advantage of Craig having no patients for two days and headed to London to do the touristy things. After checking into our B&B we went for a walk and checked out Westminster abbey, which was so packed with tourists, Houses of Parliament and Big Ben and then took a ride on the London eye. Then we brought a ticket for the Original Tour sightseeing hop on hop off bus to see the rest of the sights. We headed for Kensington palace to take a look around. ...

We decided to make the most of our first long weekend in England so rented a car to explore Cambridge and Oxford. The trip started well with a free car upgrade so we had space and comfort for all the driving we were about to do. We had recently brought a sat nav to show us the way, which was the best investment ever! It stopped a lot of map reading fights! We decided to travel via the Norfolk coast to get to Cambridge. The weather was really nice which made the ...