Arrived in Roche St Austell at 11.30 Tuesday. Light rain accompanied us most of the way. Ross and Patricia were happy to see us and made us very welcome. It did not take long before we were reminiscing and going down Memory Lane. 1997 was when they had been over to Australia and for Gordon 53 years since he left England for Australia. We had a great time talking and laughing and finally went to bed at 11pm. Mind you it did not get dark until just after 10pm. ...

Just come back to the George Albert Hotel, which by the way I would recommend heartily. Breakfast this morning was very nice. You had cereals and fruit to choose from. Fruit juices, yoghurts which are very creamy, and then a cooked breakfast of Bacon, egg, mushroom tomato and baked beans. you can cook your own toast and plenty of REAL butter and little jars of jam. Last night we had roasted tomato soup which was a robust flavor followed by the Carvery... Beef a...

Just checked in to this gorgeous Hotel in the Dorset countryside. it is called the George Albert Hotel built in 2009. it was a vision of Mr George Albert Cook, he wanted to open a quality hotel for visitors to the county of Dorset. It has 39 beautifully finished en-suite bedrooms.downstairs is a fabulous Restaurant and their prices are really great. We left Southampton this morning and made our way to Bournemouth. On the way we called in at Christchurch to h...

Well we set off today (sat) because it was raining and we did not want to waste our days in London if we could not see clearly in the London Eye. Hopefully when we come back from Cornwall it will be better weather. So we headed off to Southampton. We were on the motorway M25 which was quite good although further down the road it was starting to get congested. Everyone was out for the weekend it seemed. They have these service stops where there is a Day's hotel,S...

This morning we packed a few bits and pieces and headed off to Watford. This is the area where Dad grew up as a boy of 5 to 10 years of age. Kenton ,Kingsbury area. We found number 11 Cranleigh Gardens and the lady gave us permission to take a photo of the place. We tried to see his school but a lot has changed of course. We did see the high school but there have been additions of course. Then over to Kingsbury and number 2 Leybourne Road. It was looking very be...