LISA Having realised our grievous error in missing Harrods when we were last in London, we headed to the luxury department store as soon as we were settled that night (they're open late) hoping for some great pictures and maybe a souvenir bag. The ironic comedy of the day continued when we popped up out of the underground and realised that the whole famous façade was obscured by scaffolding, and the big gold letters were barely visible. Having learnt resi...

PAUL Our second day in London was all about great British institutions. Our first stop for the day was Buckingham Palace to watch the changing of the guard. Amazing sight no. 1: the number of people who decided to join us to watch despite the horribly typical English weather and the fact that it was on every second day at that time of year. The pictures and videos will probably give you a better picture of it all than I could so I won't try to describe the who...

PAUL Our tour around the south of England began on the Tuesday before Easter, with the nation's capital, London. After a slightly frantic morning of hair cuts put off until the last minute (Paul) and cooking up the remaining contents of our fridge to then freeze so as not to let it go to waste (mostly Lisa's doing), we managed to get ourselves into the Leeds city centre to catch our bus to London. Funnily enough, it cost us more to get from home to the city (&...