When we arrived back in Britain we headed to Brighton to spend a couple of days staying with Sian (before she headed off to the Glastonbury Festival and we headed to Goodwood). The first night we went out dinner with some of Sians workmates and then to the theatre to see a musical, High Society (payback to Paul for all the car stuff I've attended). Then the second night Paul cooked lasagne and we headed to the pub and I got to meet some of the people I'll be goin...

Hi all, Today was our last full day in the UK, and we fly to Ireland tomorrow. England has really been quite similar to home, just with more old stuff, more people, and more trains. On the trains heading North, the countryside reminded me a bit of the area around Delorane, which is what I think the early settlers were aiming for in Tasssie. It's really wet aound here at the moment though and there are flooded areas all over the place, and everything is brigh...

Ok, so I'd just almost finished writing this entry and the computer had a fit and lost it all, so I'm not in a very good mood now, almost threw it over the other side of the room, except Paul is sitting next to me and he would probably yell at me. Well we arrived in Manchester today, and believe it or not it's even colder than London, I'm not coping very well, luckily I brought a new coat the other day (I don't think I packed very well for th...

We arrived in London on Thursday evening. The flight went pretty quickly, I watched 4 movies but couldn't sleep. We're staying at Nicola's house in Clapham Junction, which is pretty close to the city, and right next to a train station so it's really easy to get around.We've been taking things pretty easy so far, after the busy couple of days in Tokyo, and the flight we've needed to recharge our batteries a bit. We've done a bit of sigh...