Ches and I had decided to ease into our week with Drew and Keith by only sightseeing on alternate days. Tuesday had been the Portcastle and the abbeys and Thursday was to be Portsmouth. Wednesdays town walls walk didn't count because it was just me. So, what to see in Portsmouth. Well, obviously it has to be the dockyards and maritime museum. WHAT? SERIOUSLY £39 ($AUD75.00) for one adult? At $150.00 for the two of us; when one of us has no interest in...

We've had a pretty quiet couple of days here in Southampton. Pretty well caught up on our sleep without any jet lag, however we were somewhat sleep deprived by the time we arrived. We arrived with a bottle of Whitley Neill Lemongrass & Ginger Gin, which Keith then proceeded to make into Martinis. 3 Jiggers of gin, half a jigger of Noilly Prat Vermouth and a splash of gin for the glass. How Ches remained upright as long as she did is a mystery. Drew had kille...

This could be a posting you might want to skip .... unless you have an interest in history and old walls and buildings. It's also an unfortunate feature of this site that I cannot post photos among the text. If you are really interested, it might be better to print it and then read while going through the photos and videos I've posted here. It's now also 4 days later and I still have to catch up on Portsmouth and two days in Dorset. Southampton dates to the S...

A 8 hour time difference between Amsterdam and Sydney and then a 9 hour difference between Southampton and Sydney is going to play havoc with this travel blog. It is set by the app and I have no control over which date it is going to display. The best I can do is begin each blog with the day it covers …. So this is Friday night the 2nd and Saturday the 3rd, beginning in Amsterdam and ending in Southampton. You know those children's educational toys, tha...

Ches and I had never heard about Christian Marclay's acclaimed installation The Clock 2010. This blog is as much for us as anyone else, so that we will remember an amazing experience. It's on at the Tate Modern until mid January and Drew and Keith had been to see sections of it three times. Earlier in the week when we had been walking to catch the bus, Drew pointed out that just a couple of hundred meters from Clare's house opposite London, City Universit...