Hello All! Writing from London, but firstly should note Cardiff (in Wales for those who don't know) and Oxford. Kate and I visited a fabulous friend, Steve, and his brother, Richard, in Cardiff a few days ago. Cardiff was lovely, we saw a castle and a fabulous photographic display by a random british artist whose name i really don't remember, but who photographed Vivien Leigh and Audrey Hepburn before they were famous. Steve took us on a walking tour to see the...

Arrived in York and spent the afternoon walking around the town. It is very pretty and green and old. After being accosted by women wanted us to go on bus tours we escaped into the walled part of the city centre. Lots of the buildings were tudor style and looked as though they were about to cave inward or fall over. We had great english pudding with custard for dessert that evening and met the blue power ranger! He is actually called Nick and he is from New Zeal...

The Haggis Tour We were very excited to find that our French Canadian friends from our Shamrocker tour, Martine and Cindy (aka Slippy) were also on our tour. We took lots of Beatles walking pictures with the girls all over Scotland. We went on secret spy missions involving interbus shagging, bus driver dave and mini skirt girl. We more obvious than we thought. We spent lots of time on the bus, going for wee walks (up very steep hills), looking at lots of lochs,...

Edinburgh - Three days of rest after our crazy Irish tour. Edinburgh did not get off to a great start. We firstly had to hike up a very high hill in order to reach our hostel. However, our hostel was directly below Edinburgh Castle, so we had a great view. We shopped. We walked along the Royal Mile and got annoyed with the tourists. We went for a visit to Edinburgh Castle, saw boys in kilts and men wearing tartan pants. Lots of men playing bagpipes all over the...