Off on day tour early again!!! Went to Bath, saw old Roman Baths. Thermal spring that created a health camp for Romans and then the gentery in 17th century. Had a real cornish pastie for lunch - yummo. Then to Salisbury Cathedral, thought it was going to be another ABC but was very interesting and had the Magna Carta there. Spire is bent as foundation is slumping. Then to Stonehenge, this was really cool to see for real. Amazing to think they moved the massive pi...

Left Glasgow by train at 8.30, had to run from Central Station to another one as we were in wrong place - certainly added some excitment to the day. Nice trip to London via Edinburgh, met some Brazilian's and Taiwanese. We mainly played cards for the 5hr trip. Got to London at around 2pm, dumped our bags at hotel then onto the Hop On Hop Off bus tour of city. What a spectacular place, it's so much more than what you see on TV, the guilding of all the ornament and...

Started the day with tour of Belfast in morning with Hilda, industrial city with a population of 500,000 but very clean and new compared to other cities. Then on fast ferry (cat) to Stranrear, sat with Gulen a lovely Turkish lady on our tour, she considers herself a comedian, and she really tickles by funnybone, she taught us a little Turkish which will be helpful for our next tour. Then two hour drive to Glasgow, checked into yet another lovely Radison Blu hotel...

Drove to site of Yeates graveyard (poet), past Donegal Bay where Lord Mountbatten was blown up. Very pretty countryside, lots of seaside villages. Went to the Belleek to see how they made the fine pottery in their factory very nice but too delicate to buy and drag around the world. Then on to Derry (Londonderry), for a great guided tour with Ronan (part Chinese) of old town and explanation of the 'troubles'. Had a sandwhich in a lovely garden square overlooki...

Back on the bus at 8am, Mark still not well, through the lowland hills, through the Lakes district (quite different to our Lakes district) popular area for hiking, walking and camping holidays. Stopped for lunch at Gretna green, lovely little place. Stopped at Grasmere (some familiarity with names between here and home) home of poet William Wodsworth, arrived in Chester much later than anticipated due to traffic accident had to detour through Liverpool. Mark w...