TUESDAY 22 MAY 2012CORNWALL Great nights sleep in a very comfy bed at the Premier Inn and we grabbed a quick tea and toast in the restaurant downstairs before hitting the road and heading further west towards Cornwall.We decided we wanted to see the tip of England at Lands End so we programmed the GPS and took off!Once again we passed through some beautiful country, saw the edge of the Dartmoor moors and some of the amazing coastal scenery. We stayed on good road...

MONDAY 21st MAY 2012LET THE TOURING BEGIN!!!!Had an early brekky and got our cases packed up, then climbed into our taxi to head to Marble Arch to pick up our hire car from the Hertz depot. We pre booked a maxi taxi through the hotel and for about twenty five pounds the four of us and our luggage were deposited in Edgeware Road in about 10 minutes! We started to get the paper work out of the way, then Den and Sue realized they had left their document file with al...

SUNDAY 20th MAY 2012LAST DAY IN LONDON!Spent a hour or so in the local launderette this morning getting our washing done! Quite an experience trying to find enough change for the machines, finding empty machines and then finding out how to use them! But a friendly old local bloke, who was doing his MONTHLY????? wash set us straight and we had a coffee while we waited for the cycles to run their course! It is our last full day in London today and so we spent a whi...

SATURDAY 19th MAY 2012SATURDAY IN LONDONThis morning we set off for more sightseeing, heading first up for Notting Hill where we spent an hour or so at the Portobello Road markets. Widely known over here for their great variety of things for sale, we were expecting a big crowd and we sure weren't disappointed! The trains were packed and we joined the mob in walking down the Road through every imaginable type of stall, selling everything from clothes and souve...

FRIDAY 18th MAY 2012MORE SIGHTSEEING!Friday morning and still the weather is holding up for us, with promised rain not eventuating thank goodness, and we headed off for breakfast at a little cafe (I had sensational pancakes - correction - one pancake, as Sue swapped me for a piece of toast!) and then caught the train to Leicester Square and the theatre district.We had skyped with Katie earlier (rapt to hear her latest, very positive doctors report but pissed that...