We spent Saturday night at Dennis and Keri's local pub where there was almost a carnival atmosphere because Norwich City had been promoted to the Premier League. There was live music which eventually got a bit too loud for us so we moved outside where we could hear it better and pretty much had our own private party. I drove some of Dennis and Keri's friends home and its the first time I've driven in the dark here so it was a bit nerve wracking down some of the...

We spent Thursday on a very pleasant walk in the Peak District. Acutally... it was a bit harder than I thought it was going to be. Fortunately it was so lovely that my auntie very kindly didn't disown me! I'd read about the walk through Cave Dale in my guidebook and it sounded lovely so we asked David and Corinthia if we could go there and they very kindly volunteered to take us. David does a lot of walking up hill and down dale and I felt somewhat underprepa...

Hooray! I've been to Wales! My auntie's grandson Alfie came over today and was given the sword, shield and helmet that his aunt bought for him at Warwick Castle and he loved it. He is the cutest little button. He's three and a half (the half is very important) with blonde curly hair and very articulate. We dubbed him Sir Alfie, Dragonslayer. He checked the bathroom for dragons for me and gave it the all clear and then watched me intently as I brushed my tee...

Hi everyone, It's been a few days so there's a lot to catch up on. We arrived at Florence airport to find that our 1.15 flight to London had been delayed until 3.45! It's not that big an airport so it was a long wait. We think that they probably closed the airspace over London because of the royal wedding flypast (we were going in to London City airport). Anyway, we finally arrived and caught up on the wedding (as if you could avoid it!). We picked up our car ...

Happy Anniversary to us! We went off to find the bus station and book our tickets for San Gimignano and were on the bus and on our way by 10.30. We had to change buses at Poggibonsi and there was a half hour wait between buses so we went to get a coffee. I made our second drinks mistake since we arrived (Tony asked for a latte on the first day and ended up with a nice glass of hot milk!). I decided to have hot chocolate... when Tony brought it back it looked as i...