Dear all, Just a quick postcard tonight to let you know I am just back from my tour of the highlands and Orkney islands and had a really wonderful time. We were a group of 17 including our very knowledgeable and humourous guide Jack. We represented 10 different countries which was really great-lots of fun and we had some fantastic evening meals (we cooked together) with Malaysian, Spanish, German and Scottish cuisine to name a few. I'll post more detail...

Well after spending the morning at the Indian Consulate General Office submitting my visa application for my trip to India in December (they told me it will take 5 weeks to process the application so cross fingers and toes it doesn't take too much longer than that. At least I could submit my application in person and not have to send it my post which I thought I might have to do) I decided to head out of the city and spend a bit of time in the countryside of the ...

Hello everyone, It dawned sunny and windy this morning so I got myself into town and had another walk around. The layout and street names remind me so much of Dunedin-Princes St George St, Queen St, Leith, York Pl, Musselburgh etc etc and the outlook over the Firth of Forth from Castle Hill reminds me a bit of looking over Otago Harbour. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and I can understand why the early immigrants to Dunedin wanted to remind themselves of the ...

I guess I knew the sunny weather couldn't last too much longer...it was misty in Edinburgh yesterday and it was cloudy and trying to rain in Glasgow today (although the sun did try to shine coming back into Edinburgh)-still its reasonably mild and hasn't stopped my sightseeing! Dean had the day off yesterday so he showed me around central Edinburgh yesterday-we walked up to the castle and down the Royal Mile. Some really lovely architecture and old buildings...

Hello everyone, Well I've made it up to Scotland after a great time in London. Most of my news is about London-hence the picture of Westminster and the London Eye! On Tuesday I went to Greenwich and had a fantastic time looking around the Royal Observatory. It is the place where the longitude and time for the world is set so it was quite neat to have my photo taken with one foot on either side of the meridan line which divides the world into East and We...