Yesterday was a PITA. We needed to leave the EU from the same airport you came in so we had to fly back to Frankfurt before heading to NYC. But anyway some 20hrs later... We arrive at the hotel. If you could have shot the Young Ones in our London hotel room, you could shoot Mad Men in our hotel room. Exactly how an unkept 1920s hotel would look by the 60s. However the location is awesome, across the road from the Russian Tea Room (not sure why I know that name...

It's our last day in London and we were set to cram as much in as possible. by 9am we'd done three loads at the laundromat and were heading off to Buckingham Palace to see the Changing of the Guard. Parental failure: after 20minutes of waiting Emerson asked why we were queueing for the 15th time - I told her there was a big parade with Fairies and Mickey & Minnie starting soon. No matter how impressive the band and marching was it was never going to live up t...

I'm in London still, though I'm a lot happier about it than The Waifs. Today we made it to St John Hotel for breakfast just minutes before end of service, we're getting pretty good with the tube eh? We didn't really have a plan apart from getting to that part of the world. A short stroll later and we realised M&M World was on the corner. The kids went nuts. I went off to look around for a little while, by the time I made it there Max was running at me screami...

Stupidly early start from Paris this morning. Planned, I think, to make parting easier. Side note, I've watched season one of the Wire and Sons of Anarchy on the bus during this tour, must get more of both. Properly sad as border control stamped my passport at Calais. We saw the colapsed cliff face at Dover as we landed. Looks to be only a kilometer or two up the coast from the port. It made the news when it happened while we were away so it mustn't happen that ...

I've always scoffed at idiots that name their children after a city, we'll Adelaide is the exception, but you're not really naming her after the city of churches are you? Is it a city? Anyway I won't do it anymore if they name the kid Paris - I LOVE this place! We did a long stint up from Lucerne into Paris, arriving at about 4pm. Somehow in all Gab's battle planning she had entirely missed the perpandicular avenues of the Champs Elysees. The cabinet was assembl...