We are in Wales to watch a couple of games of the Rugby World Cup. We have tickets to see the Wallabies play Fiji but we will also watch Wales play Uruguay. The tickets were purchased online last July when they were first released in the ballot. We also booked our accommodation 12 months ago. You might ask why we are going to watch Wales - do we have Welsh heritage? No. Are they the best team in the tournament? Probably not. Is Cardiff high on our list of favour...

We travelled back to London after swapping cars in Ipswich. We are now driving a bright, red Astra for the remainder of our holiday. The return to London was for one reason only - to drop Chris at Heathrow for his departure to Canada for a month before he returns home in late October. Our GPS was set for the A roads for the trip as the M roads are often congested and can be very boring as well. We happily drove through the small villages of Sudbury and Halstead ...

Greg and I visited Lincoln a couple of weeks ago but arrived late in the afternoon. We said then that we would like to go back and see a bit more of this historic area - so we did! We left Hockley Heath and set the GPS for Nottingham - no, not to see Robin Hood but to visit Pidcock Triumph dealership. We always like to include a few motorbike shops on our trips as you never know what you might find there. This was no exception. The showroom was full of Triumphs ...

We travelled north again for a couple of nights so that we could spend a day in Coventry. We also hoped to be lucky enough to check out the Triumph Factory at Hinckley. Coventry was only 25km from our hotel so we all had a nice sleep in. After our short drive we parked in the Cathedral precinct of the town. Coventry Cathedral is not one that would be high on the best dressed list of cathedrals to visit - for a very good reason. This cathedral is topless and qui...

Our trip to Southampton has been planned for 2 years now. When we were in the UK in 2013 we stayed with Greg's cousin Betty Hughes and her husband Ciggy in Southampton. We told Betty that we could be back in 2015 and she immediately invited us to her 40th Anniversary party which would be held 12th September 2015. We gladly accepted the invitation - if the dates coincided with our trip. They did! We arrived in Southampton late afternoon and caught up on all the f...