Sunday 17 July 2011 Hey Stu - good to hear from you. Glad you didnt major in geography or you would have failed miserably! Cambridge is East of London - Oxford is West and is between Bath and Stratford and we didnt go there! Have the antibiotics kicked in yet or is that the p;roblem? Give our love to all the sickees - sorry to hear you have all been sick. We are very well thanks! To continue... It's hard to believe we have come to the end of our UK experienc...

17 June 2011 Last night we had dinner with Marie and Damien at Jamie Oliver’s restaurant – great food and atmosphere! After that we wandered around the Covent Garden area and into Soho – there were so many people and so much going on. We ended up at Giraffe where we had yet another bottle of wine and dessert. Tubed home with the hundreds of other commuters going home after dinner, shows etc. Did you know that at Covent Garden tube station there is 192...

Thursday 16 June They were right! It's pouring down and we have had breakfast and decided what we are going to do for the day. Last night we met up with Colleen's daughter Tori and had a lovely evening with her, catching up after not having seen her for probably 25 years! It was so nice and we were able to speak with Colleen while we were all together. Coll's sister passed away from cancer this week so it was special to have the chance to talk. We haven't said ...

15 June 2011 Lift still out – legs must be getting fitter! All the way to the basement, breakfast, then back up to the room. Spent a bit of time catching up with the blog. Laughed at some of the comments, particularly those from Mike & Stu. Don’t know who wrote what though! Great way for us to keep in touch – thanks. Well I did warn Jannie that today was another walking day so we set off for the tube station which is a five minute walk. Caught the t...

14 June 2011 The lift is out of order! 109 steps to breakfast! Not so bad going down but coming up again was a bit of a mission! Tonight when we came home we used the staff lift. It is a little square job with an old fashioned iron gate you pull to close – that was exciting! However back to our day. We set off by tube to Embankment to catch a ferry to Greenwich. It was a lovely mild day so we were able to leave our coats behind for the first time. We d...