Wednesday and our last full day in London and the sun is out just. We start our morning with a coffee as we plan our day. Back on the hop on hop off bus, we head towards The Tower of London in reach for the Crown Jewels. We tag onto a tour (beefeater) an ex English soldier with a huge amount of knowledge as he takes us through the Tower provide a lot of information about this place. We then join the queue to view the Crown Jewels which are held in the biggest v...

First morning and full day in London. After a slow start (I think I know we are slowing down) head out to start our two days on the hop on hop off bus to see all the sights of London. It is raining again today and cold with no end in sight of the rain. We have a joke with the bus conductor he knows we are Aussies and he does the usual good day mate Aussies hey. We thank him for the nice welcome to London referring to the weather. On the bus we get and off we ...

We said goodbye to Worcester and hopped on a train to London this morning. Two and a half hours later we arrived at Paddington Station London. It is a bank holiday in the UK and there are people everywhere. We join a short queue for a taxi to take us to our hotel and home for the next three nights. It is pouring down and I mean pouring with no end in sight. We check in to our room which is small but comfortable recently renovated everything new. We get out s...

We had a late start to our Sunday. Another hot English breakfast (I think our trainer Terry wouldn't approve) we are eating and drinking way too much!! We walked the high street of Worcester stopping for a caramel latte. We took in the cathedral another ancient building with lots of history walked the river and the art markets. Then collected by Martin who took us for a traditional Sunday lunch at the Barn Owl hot English roast. Back to town for a couple of...

Saturday morning and we are off to Shakespeare's birthplace - Stratford upon avon, then on to visit villages in the Cotswolds. Stratford was very busy but we made our way to Shakespeare's home again the age of these buildings still amaze us. Picked up some nic nacs at the souvenir shop including some Shakespeare quotes / insults like " I wish we were better strangers " and " thou art a boil" which Gillian used to describe me later in the day when I was being a pa...