25th July - Bizarrely, we've not been getting tired, so we've not got to sleep until about two or three in the morning for the past few days (don't know why) but this was a problem this morning as we had to be up at 04.30 - and the taxi driver arrived early too! Manchester to Dublin was a formality but we only had an hour and a half to get the NY flight at Dublin and we knew, from our last trip that US Immigration is done in Dublin before you board the flight. As...

14th July - We spent about an hour looking for free parking in Stavanger and then went to the Canning Museum which tells you about the old fishing industry of Norway from catching sardines through to canning them. Norway is all about the sea. Next was the Oil Museum which is a huge modern building on the harbour that explains all about Norway's great good fortune to stumble upon the world's 2nd largest oil field in its territory (albeit offshore) and has tons of ...

7th - I woke up and spent 6 hours writing the blog for the last two weeks, as we just never had the time being at Glastonbury and then were too busy helping out with my parents house to do it when we got back! I then spent another 3 hours putting the blog on to the internet site, as my parents have bad internet connection, courtesy of BT!After that I finally managed to get out of the house and drove to my friend Jenny's house for a chilled out evening of TV and p...

23rd June - We went to Meadowhall to do some much needed shopping for last minute items for Glastonbury, including quite a bit of clothing for me and lots of sweets and sugar laden food from Poundland, as recommended by my sister Kariss.We went wild and managed to spend £12.00 in there!On the way home we called in at my cousin Lisa's house to collect some items they have kindly been storing for us which we thought might be useful for the festival, such as campin...

16th June - After a lovely night in a luxury hotel for a change, we woke up to French breakfast in bed and checked out ready to face the day.It's raining quite heavily today so we can tell we have left the south coast and the ski jackets will have to come out later, when we get to our next destination, Bordeaux.Although we are keeping sleeping costs down by using the cheap chain hotel and camping, petrol is as expensive, if not more expensive than Britain, and we...