#178 - Bridge Ale - Well it's all over... Sad face as per picture above. What a great actress in the pic. You can feel the sadness. Magic! So we left our home away from home in Bourne and headed to the airport. We were a little early so we had time for our last pub meal, a bit of duty free shopping and....a beer of course. Then we took off to Australia via Seoul.

#176 and 177 - Wells Banana Bread Beer and Wychwood Dr Thirsty's Blonde number 4 (English) - This is our last full day in the UK....sadface. So we started with home made English breakfast. Then headed to Stamford which is a cute little town near Bourne. After this we headed back to Bourne and relaxed before our big day and flight tomorrow. Not much really going on these last few days. At night we enjoyed our last meal in Bourne with Mike and Sue. Did I say sadfac...

#174 and 175 - Tetley's and Fullers Honey Dew (English) - First and unfortunately only EPL game today. Tradition rivals of Aston Villa and Hull City.... So we drove to Birmingham; England's second biggest city and headed to Villa park. On arrival headed to the Aston Villa's members only Holte Pub. They let us in as it wasn't very busy. Then we watched the game in the Holte stand which is were all the singing starts by the Villa fans (well they sing when there not...

#173 - Old Empire IPA (English) - Said good buy to the parents and hello to driving about 6 hours from Edinburgh to Bourne. That was after awaiting for thrifty to get our hire car at around 11am when we had booked it for 8am. I am on driving duty this time. As it turns out when you drive 6 hours in a day it does not leave much to blog about. On arrival we were greeted by Mike and Sue and had a great dinner.

#171 and 172 - Innis & Gunn and McEwans Scottish Ale (Scottish) - Last full day with the parents. Firstly we did a spot of shopping...Yay! Then we did a tour of underground vaults. Then we had our last supper before we separate. Edinburgh is a real nice city. Unfortunately it is in Britain so it rained and was very dreary weather today.