Finally the 10th of June has rolled around and Clare and Ryan got married at Peasehill House in Bradford. What a wonderful day it was despite the rain in the morning. The night before Geoff went out with Ryan, Clares father, stepfather, brother and a couple of others and had a great time by all accounts until the early hours meanwhile I was invited to spend the night at Clares's mothers house with 10 others and we has a fabulous time together, doing nails etc a...

What a week it's been! After 28hours in the air and arriving at Manchester Airport and meeting up with Ryan and the lovely Clare we headed straight to pick up new motorhome. Our excitement was quickly dampened by the news that our motorhome was still in the factory some 150miles away but worse than that the registration process had yet to start and that normally takes 2 weeks! We were offered and accepted the use of a new Auto Sleeper Panel van conversion. So o...

All good things come to an end and this is the end for this most wonderful trip. It is raining today and is supposed to do the same for tomorrow as we head to the airport - I guess better that way than full sun and hot weather calling us to stay! We are hoping to catch up with Ryan tonight to say goodbye to him but while we wait we have been doing a bit of a tally of some of the things which may be of interest. Kms travelled. 11909km Average kms per day in van. 1...

Sunday was a lovely quiet day with only one important event planned and that was supper with Ryan and his English 'family" Damien and Frankie and Frankie's parents Stefano and Natalie and her sister Christina.  It was lovely to meet them and see how comfortable Ryan is with them all.  Some lovely blueberry muffins from Natalie went down a treat and we felt very welcome.  Our stop for the night was a pub car park and in the morni...

Today we visited the Big Smoke and big it was! It has been about seven years since we last visited London and it was nice to visit again. This time we did notice some differences though. Although it was a Saturday we could not believe the lack of cars on the road. We suspect this can be attributed to requiring special permits for central London and the costs related to the size of vehicle you drive. The regulations appear to have fixed the major problem of vehicl...