We arrived back in London with plenty of time to spare before collecting Stacey, Brett, William, Thomas and Hayley from Heathrow. We had been getting SMS updates since 2:30am on Friday when they arrived at the airport in Brisbane. We had our welcome sign printed off and our trip t-shirts ready to wear for the pick up. All we needed now was for the flight to arrive. Finally they emerged from Customs and we were greeted by huge hugs and kisses - just what the doct...

We are back in Scotland for our second visit on this trip. We are staying in Neil and Isobel's house in East Kilbride, Glasgow. Neil and Isobel left for Australia on Friday and will spend 2 months at our house on the Gold Coast. Chris decided to come back to Scotland with us and our friends Craig and Marg are also with us for a few days. Before we went to the Isle of Man, we organised with Craig McCall, Neil and Isobel's son-in-law, to go for a ride together on ...

Ferry departure from Heysham to Douglas was at 11:45 so we arrived at the terminal the required 2 hours prior only to wait in line with all the other bikes. This was not a problem as there is always bikes to look at and people to talk to. Lined up behind us were Craig and Marg who we had met in Morecambe the night before. Chris, however was waving to us from the terminal as he would travel to Douglas on the next ferry leaving at 2:15, we arranged to meet him at t...

We left Glasgow with rain suits on - again. Today was supposed to be clear - I guess that information didn't get through to Glasgow. We will return to Glasgow on June 13th, the day after Neil and Isobel leave to go to Australia to stay in our house for a couple of months. Our destination for the night was Carlisle but we had a short detour to visit a town forever etched in Scottish history. On December 21st 1988 the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed on the t...

Our ride north to Glasgow (for the first visit) took us through Lancaster, Heysham and the Lake's District. We rode north through Lancaster on our way to Heysham. The streets were blocked off with barriers and there were Police everywhere. There was even people waving flags. We assumed that someone had told the locals we were coming. Then we remembered that the Queen was visiting Lancaster that day to attend a function at the castle. We didn't hang around to se...