Sunday was travel day from Croydon to Bristol - nice little train ride eventually. Monday we decided to explore Bristol and on the advice of the waitress from Jamie's Italian restaurant where we ate on Sunday night, we decided to find the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Figured we could walk there - we thought about 30 minutes - we really must learn not to believe the maps. An hour later and after a couple of wrong turns we found it. About 74 metres above the water ...

What a great way to spend Boxing Day - certainly not at the sales but wandering around Hyde Park enjoying their Winter Wonderland carnival. We met Chelsea and Nick at East Croydon station Saturday morning about 11. Well it was almost 12 before we managed to find each other - that's the problem when you don't have any form of communication apart from wifi. But all ended well - we found each other. Needless to say I now have a UK number as does Rach. Winter Wond...

Merry Christmas everyone! Started the dsy early skyping Dad, Ellen and Peter - lovely to see them and speak with them. Today we got ti soend the day with Chelsea and Nick - well kind of

Today was spent with some very special people who showed us a London that we would never have seen. We met Roger and Sue at Westminster station - delivered Rachel's Christmas presents (phew) - and then set off for Greenwich. It was a loveky, but cold again, boat ride on the Thames. The captain of the boat gave us s running commentary on historical facts about the buildings beside the river, mostly that they were warehouses but now 'luxury apartments'. As we we...

After several false starts thix morning - mostly because we decided we weren't warm enough and needed to revisit our rooms and add some layers - we successfully used the train from West Brompton to Tower Hill so visit the Tower of London. Spent a good couple of hours there visiting the Bloody Tower, White Tower, The Chapel and of course, viewing the Crown Jewels - all very impressive. We caught the end of a Yeoman's tour and it was very informative - and entert...