It was a beautiful autumn day in London yesterday. I spent most of the day at the Tower of London-an incredible place with a lot of history (not all of it pleasant!). It was great to wander around and learn a bit more about English royal history and see the Crown Jewels-very impressive. In the late afternoon I visited the Tower Bridge exhibition which is housed in the upper level of the Bridge with impressive views up and down the Thames. It was beautiful in th...

Dear friends, Well its taken me a while to get back to this site and write a note-sorry for the long time between updates! I arrived in London on Saturday after a pleasant train journey from Wales. The remainder of my time at Borfa Hafod near Caersws in Wales(don't you just love those names!) went well. I celebrated my birthday with the family on Guy Fawkes night by going to a community run bonfire and fireworks display. The bonfire especially was very ...

Hello everyone and sorry for not writing sooner. Have been doing a bit of travelling around in the past week and now I'm at my second organic farm placement in Wales where I don't have easy internet access. When I left Scotland about a week and a half ago I went across to Belfast to visit my cousin Heidi and her husband Simon (it was lovely to see you both. I hope conference went well Simon). I was only there for 2 days but it was great to be there all the ...

The walking festival is going well. I've been on two walks so far-the one on Monday that I wrote about in my last postcard and one yesterday which started at a place called Glen Artley (near the village of Comrie) and we walked over to Loch Earn. It was pouring with rain when we met at James Square in Crieff but it soon stopped and by the time we started walking the ckoud was starting to lift and by lucnchtime we had blue skies and sunshine! Most of the wallk was...

Hello everyone Just a real quick message today. I made it okay to Crieff yesterday. I'm staying at a very homely B&B near the centre of the town. I went on my first walk this morning not far from Crieff-it started in a small village called Fowlers West. We walked up to some standings stones and then on to another hill where we got a really good view of the surrounding countryside-lots of heather on the hills but also nice forest. It was cloudy most of th...