After dropping the bike off in Southampton we caught the train to Cambridge where we were staying with a friend for a couple of days. Cambridge was a very interesting and quite expensive town, all the lovely old college buildings to see, but when we were there it was end of term and graduation time, so all the colleges were closed to tourists and the place was packed with parents and students, we did get to look around one college on our last day before catching ...

From Wales we headed down to Southampton to make arrangements to ship the bike to Halifax in Canada. We had already found a shipping company that offered Roll on Roll off, but we just wanted to be sure of what we were getting and to tie up loose ends. All was good and the lady we were dealing with was most helpful. On the way to Southampton we stopped and had a look at Stone Henge and Salisbury Cathedral, in the rain and wind. Some people have said they didn't th...

We had stopped in a campground near Holyhead on our way to Ireland which was quite nice, so we thought after our mad rush around Ireland we would make it a short day and headed to the same campground when we got back from Ireland. This time it was even nicer as there was little to no wind and the sun was shinning. We had been warned on many occasions that Wales was wet and cold, we hoped not, we wanted fine and warm! We had a pleasant afternoon in the sun catchi...

Glasgow was wet when we arrived, but while we were there it turned on the good weather for us. To get to Glasgow we went past Loch Ness to see if we could Nessie, to us the Loch was a bit of a disappointment compared to other lochs we had seen. We weren't able to find a campground near to Glasgow, so we found a hostel close to the center of the city. We didn't find the city that attractive, but the places we did see were amazing, and free, we had only planned on ...

After leaving Scotland we went and had a look at Hadrian's Wall, another incredible feat of Roman engineering and organisation. The segment we saw was the longest continues section remaining and there was also a fort built on the spot we went to. From Hadrian's Wall we followed a minor road that had been recommended to us by a couple of cyclists, they said it didn't have much traffic on it, and it didn't which was just as well because most of it was single lane s...