London…again: After all the rain in Peterborough and all the mud, we back to London for a couple of days, again to the Crystal Palace campsite which is so handy to the centre of London by the No 3 bus. No dramas with the bus this time - no change of destination halfway through, no shouts from the driver to run. Sunday was forecast to be 'wet and windy', not exactly enticing us outdoors. We have had exactly this for weeks now and the idea did not fill...

London London is a favourite city of ours. No trip to the UK is complete without some time in this so-alive capital city. We drove south from Cambridge religiously following the GPS to get us to the campsite at Crystal Palace on the south side. One surprize was that there is still a car ferry across the Thames. We lined up with other cars and some enormous trucks and after only a five or so minute wait drove onto the ferry, a large rusty affair. In no time...

Sydney to London Time to go back to the UK to collect our little motorhome and this time spend an uninterrupted 5 months travelling around. This year we have planned two major destinations - Morocco first for a month and then up to Iceland for a month also. After Iceland we plan to see as much of the rest of Scandinavia as we can in the remaining time we have before heading home again. We had thought that we would keep the van for two years but the way...

London: We arrived as usual at Heathrow after a long drive from Norfolk, turned in the hire car and struggled with our bags back to the terminals to get the Tube to Gloucester Road Station. A short walk with ever more heavy bags to a quiet back street, Rosary Gardens, found us at the Aston - a converted Victorian red brick terrace house with the rooms turned into hotel rooms. Like all London hotel rooms, it was so small that you had to go outside to change you...