It's now Sunday 2nd July. We're on the isle of Wight. What am I to do? Post blogs about Brighton and the following day on the White Cliffs of Eastbourne from over a week ago or yesterdays fun filled adventure crossing on the ferry and daring to ride a chair lift down onto the beach below the coloured sands and the needles on the western end of IofW? O.K., I'm going to set myself the task of catching up on all days missed so far so that we can hit London and the...

Southampton to Brighton I'd forgotten that Drew and Keith had told us that the drive from Southampton to Brighton is just a chain of roundabouts. One of the most boring and trying drives in the UK. Wasn't I clever then in deciding to choose a route that would take us up the M3 to the outskirts of London and then across to Dorking. This is how Dorking bills itself: "The historic market town of Dorking is surrounded by the picturesque wooded Surrey Hills, an Area...