Yesterday we arrived back in Wales and drove to the Brecon-Beacons National Park. We stopped in Llandovery (Welsh is a funny language,there are lots of places that start with Ll which is pronounced "fl"!). Llandovery is a beautiful village with a ruined castle and a great playground! Then we came to Brecon which is also a very pretty town, where we stayed in a B&B in a very old building. This is the 4th B&B so far! Today we drove to Devon, through the Bre...

This morning we took the ferry from Rosslare in Ireland to Fishguard in Wales.

Today we went on a train from London to Holyhead and then on the ferry to Dublin.

Today Matthew and Ollie saw Big Ben (also known as Big Bentley from Cars2). We took a walk past horse guards and then a double decker bus to Buckingham Palace. We had a picnic lunch in Green Park overlooking the Palace and after watching squirrels play in St James Park we played in the cute little playground for a while. We took the tube via Victoria Station to pick up our ferry tickets for tomorrow and then headed out to Wimbledon to order Geoff's suit for t...

We arrived in London at 5.10 am Tuesday after an uneventful 22 hour flight on a Qantas A380. Matthew and Ollie spent most of the flight watching tv or playing games on the iPad and slept only a little. Once we had arrived at Heathrow, the Customs queues were ok and the sight of the minivan driver holding a sign with our name was a relief as I couldn't have faced any further public transport at that point. We got to Chris and Caroline's house in Southfields in t...