We arrived in Chatham, Kent, on Saturday. It was about two and a half hours from Bedford, and the GPS was supposed to take us around, but not THROUGH, London. But as the photos of our car on the Woolwich Free Ferry crossing the Thames near Greenwich attest, we found ourselves perilously close to London. After a brief period of nervousness where we didn't know whether the ferry was even crossing on Saturday, and wondering if we would need to swim, we eventually...

Too much stuff! We have seen so many things, it's impossible to find the time to write about all of them, so I've decided to cheat and do a catchup post about the things we did since we left Swanage: 1. We drove from Swanage to Basingstoke on the 27th, taking a small detour via the National Car Museum at Beaulieu in the New Forest. It wasn't cheap to get in, but there was lots to see - an exhibition of cars from the James Bond films over the last 50 years, a De...