Day 123, 4 November 2012, Chelmsford, all day. 30 minutes from London. Believe it or not. Call Ripley, call the BBC. We did nothing at all today - utter luxury. Slippers, track suits, rain pouring outside. Didn't even get to the local (The Globe - pictured. Must put that on the to do list). An actual rest day after 4 months on the go. Like having a holiday from travelling. 6 day London Pass starts tomorrow - Going to be an enormous week for our very first ...

Day 122, 3 November 2012, Cambridge (University town), England - For today's adventure we took off to Cambridge and even made a detour to see a village with many thatched roofs and a very quaint pub... just like Midsomer Murders. No dead bodies were to be seen however. The weather was perfect and Cambridge was correspondingly busy. Business was booming for the punting fraternity and we took the opportunity to get out onto the River Cam for a tootle past the ol...

Day 121, 2 November 2012 - Dublin - Taxi to ferry port - Ferry across the Irish Sea to Holyhead, Wales, Train from Holyhead to Chester. (Another) train - Chester to London Euston Station. Out the door, round the corner, down to Euston Square tube station - tube ride to Liverpool Street Station - Greater Anglia train to Chelmsford! - 7.30 am to 5 pm. Obviously it was Travel Day! The Irish Sea was exhibiting "adverse conditions". That's captain speak for rough ...

Day 120, 1 November 2012, Dublin - the Natural History Museum. Completely by accident. Now we set out with all good intention of looking at 300 year old dead bodies "bog bodies" in the Archeology museum. These are miracles caused by the sphagnum moss on the bogs which creates a completely inert environment - no oxygen, no bacteria. Bodies are preserved to the extent that someone found a body a few years back and called the police thinking the victim was murder...

Day 119, 31 October 2012, Dublin Walking Tour. What a day! We woke, snug and warm, in our 4th floor eyrie and spent at least 30 minutes listening to the rhythm of the falling rain. With only two days in Dublin however a little bit of Irish weather couldn't put us off, so out we went. We spent 3 hours with Emer (pronounced like Lemur - just no "L") - Dublin born & bred. She led us a merry walk around the city and once more we found ourselves in the footst...