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 ...

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 ...

Now we are in England! We have stayed Kristy & Deane in Farnham, stayed in Locks Heath, Southampton with Peter (Craig’s brother), Jane and the kids, spent a day looking around Portsmouth, stayed with Cherie & Dave in London, spent time looking around Nottingham and settled in Grantham, Lincolnshire. We had Kristy & Deane come to stay one weekend and went and explored Lincoln. We visited the castle which still has the towers and wall intact, look...