Unbelievably, I am sitting in the family room at home now, typing the last part of our travel story. Can't believe the 6 weeks has finished and have to go back to work tomorrow. Feeling exhausted, not much sleep on the plane, but no complaining allowed. We enjoyed our last couple of days in London. On Thursday, another lazy morning before getting up and heading to Oxford St so mum could finish her shopping at Marks & Spencers. Yes, I bought a few things as w...

Have had a lovely couple of days catching up with friends. Sunday morning we picked up a hire car which I thought was going to be something like my I30 but was a Puegot SUV (or something like that anyway). Nice to drive. Had a GPS to get me to Kidderminster and had no problems even though it was foggy the whole way. I never real trust those things but this one did good. I had no idea what the speed limit was because there was not one sign on the motorway so stuck...

Well we ended up having a bit of a lazy morning which wasn't intentional but that's just how it worked out. I think we are both getting more tired by the day. We have crammed a lot in over the past 5 weeks. Did some skyping in the morning and then a last breakfast at the hotel. They have the best fresh home made muesli and I'm not usually muesli person. We checked out about noon, left our bags and headed back to the Palace of Tears Museum that we visited yesterda...

Not sure where to start for today. Well, we did do some laundry at the self service laundry across the road and hung it in our room. It is so warm in here, that it was all dry by the time we returned after our 6hr walking tour and dinner. It was a bit drizzly this morning but it stopped just as we left the hotel which was nice. It would have been rather mild today except for a very cold breeze blowing. Anyway, I digress. There were 10 of us on the tour, so a go...

Well we rugged up and headed out to join the crowd for NYE and made our way to the entry point to join the street party at Brandenburger Gate. We were surprised by the check they did for alcohol and glass. A cursory glance through bags, males were patted down, females were waved through. Could have smuggled anything in. Mum agreed to go on the ferris wheel with me but started to have second thoughts when she saw they spun. I told her they only spun if you made th...