THURSDAY 5th JULY 2012BACK TO LONDONYay!!!! A four fifteen call from Jase announced that we have a new Grand Daughter - Layla Rose Allan was delivered with no problems and we even got to talk to Katie! Great excitement and lots of relief that all had gone well - much sadness that we won't be able to see her for about ten days! Mumsie and I both shed a tear or two over that!!!!It wasn't much use trying to go back to sleep - we were due a six am wake up cal...

TUESDAY 5th JUNE 2012RETURNING THE CARGot an early start this morning, both Den and I a little nervous of what the traffic maybe like in London on the last day of the four day holiday!We were on the road a little after 9am and hit the M4 motorway, covering the sixty odd miles into London very quickly and by 10.15am, with absolutely no traffic problems, we were at the Hertz depot in Marble Arch! Returned the car with no worries and caught a cab to the Ibis Earls C...

SUNDAY 3rd MAY 2012OXFORDSet off this morning heading for the Cotswolds, staying off the dreaded motorways and heading south, by passing Wolverhampton and Birmingham and then turning west and on to Stratford upon Avon for a coffee stop! The home of William Shakespeare was a pleasant little place - popular tourist bus stop - and it was packed with people of all nationalities! The rain had begun again and we had a brief walk and a coffee before hitting the road aga...

SATURDAY 2nd JUNE 2012YORK Headed into the ancient city of York this morning and after a bit of a meander, found a parking space and joined the throngs of tourists who were visiting! Perhaps I should explain that unbeknown to us the local UK school holidays had been brought forward a few days because of the Jubilee and actually started yesterday, and this combined with the four day long weekend meant that all the holiday spots are chock a block with visitors!We j...

FRIDAY 1st JUNE 2012BACK TO ENGLANDWell, today dawned cloudy but with no rain and we set after breakfast to do the hop-on hop-off bus circuit and see the city of Edinburgh. The first stop was the fabulous Edinburgh Castle, the imposing big place set high on the hill overlooking the city and home to the ever popular Edinburgh Military Tattoo which we see on TV each year!It is an immense castle and the tour over it takes a couple of hours, so mores the pity, once a...