#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.

#115 and 116 - Hobgoblin and Greene King IPA (English) - What a nice day. In the morning a beautiful breakfast put together by our hosts - Mike and Sue. Then relaxed and got travel stuff sorted for next leg of the trip. Well I did that and Bek was in the kitchen learning to make risotto...sweet. Then had a wonderful barbecue with our hosts and Mikes son Ian, partner Ruth and their two kids. Was a great afternoon....as an Aussie I am embarrassed to say that I had ...

#114 - Comet (English) - Day started poorly...woke up at 5:30am, got to tram station then waited about 45 minutes for tram to turn up which is supposed to come every 12 minutes....got the Amsterdam airport and headed back to our England home via Manchester. I drove the hire car this time but my direction team of GPS and Bek let me down and it took nearly four hours. The Gps would say left then left then left then left and we were like we are now in the same spot?...