Happy New Year! What a way to celebrate the New Year than a walk around the walls of York - which is what we did. But first, we visited the National Rail Musesm, and if you like trains, then this is the place to go. Two massive warehouses of trains, miniature trains, train displays, trains you can walk through, plus information about rail history of Britain plus across the world. We even got to see a train turntable in action - not a balance one but an electric...

Today we took a train trip (only £9.80 for two of us return) to Bath (about 20 minutes from Bristol). Two things to look at particularly - the Roman Baths and all things Jane Austen. The Roman Baths were amazing - the Romans were a very clever bunch of people to create such as complex arrangement of rooms that utilise naturally warmed water. There were saunas, bathing rooms, a plunge room (cold water plunge bath to close the pores after their sauna) - all thes...

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