Plenty still to see in London there was no rest for the wicked despite our big day yesterday. From Vauxhall we started our day on the Thames riverside path and just about walked the length of London passing the Houses of Parliament & Big Ben, then shaking our heads in wonder at all the tourist spending half their day lining up for the London Eye & Dungeons we kept heading east stopping next at the Tate Modern firstly having a coffee & using their free...

It was a day of Beer today as we were off to The Great British Beer Festival but first of all we had to do our washing. Most certainly one of the downsides when travelling is finding somewhere to do washing & then taking a few hours out of a day to actually get it done. The closest laundrette was about 10mins walk away & luckily they had quick machines so we were out of there in just over an hour ready to take the tube to West Kensington then walk up to O...

After a big day yesterday and checkout being generously not until noon we had a lazy morning before going for a walk to Grafton street & St Stephens Green and then returned to the hotel for our airport bus at 2.50. We thought we would be at the airport with lots of time on our hands for our 5.25 flight but by the time we lined up for the bag drop & then security we only had about 20mins to grab a late lunch before heading to the gate. We were flying with ...

We were off to explore the north east coast of Northern Ireland today so after breakfast at the guesthouse we walked down to the tour office to meet our bus. Setting off at 10am with a chock-a-block bus we first stopped at Carrickfergus for a quick photo stop at the 12th century Norman castle only about 20mins north of Belfast. The driver kept up the commentary the whole journey as we continued along the Antrim coast road passing quaint little fishing villages &a...

We had to drag ourselves out of bed at 5.30am for our 7.30am Easyjet flight to Belfast. Sue was lovely enough to get up equally early to drive us to the airport where we just fit in a quick breaky before the short flight. We were soon on the bus into Belfast & then dropping off our bags at the guesthouse before going to find a stop near the very grand Queens University for the Hop on Hop off bus which we purchased as a combo with our Giants Causeway day trip ...