Today we drove down to London and returned our hire car. We also met up with Ross Mason and his wife Chris who were on their honeymoon. We had a lovely evening with them.

Today we drove further south and explored the wonderful Warwick Castle before going to Milton Keynes and finding the house of my English penfriend Alyson, who I've been writing to since I was 12. We've never met Alyson before. We've met her husband Andy when he came out to Australia with Hot Chocolate and Suzy Quatro, but this was a first. We had a lovely night with them.

Today we checked out Edinburgh addresses where the Watt family lived before coming out to Australia and we also toured Edinburgh Castle before leaving Scotland and head south to the land of my Robinson ancestors - Morpeth, Ashington, Choppington and Stakeford. We visited the church where my grandparents were married. We continued on down to Crayke where we stayed overnight at the 15th Century Castle, which has an even older castle ruin in its grounds. Dinner was...

Today we went out to Glenuig, where Tom's McDonald family came from. It was wild and isolated, and beautiful. We then drove over the other side of the country to Errol to see where his ******* family originated, finally returning to Edinburgh where we stayed in the gorgeous Ellersly House Hotel.

So today we went on to Stevenston, where Tom's Watt family came from. This was followed by a navigation through Glasgow, including a tunnel under the river, and then continuing on to the Glengoyne Distillery - our first ever whisky distillery. The beginning of yet another tradition. We followed Loch Lomond, drove through Glencoe and arrived a Fort William. There was water flowing through the car park. I asked the receptionist if there was a problem "no, tis the...