Drove back from Hull to Yorkshire, to the Aviation museum this was an hours drive backwards from where we were, thanks to the earlier closure of the air museum the day before . We came here as it is the only place to see a Halifax bomber complete in the world this is the aircraft my Grandfather use to fly it was HUGE and delightful to see it done up in the 158 squadron colours and painted as the most famous of his planes Friday the 13th , seeing what those men w...

Today we headed out to little Milton in Oxford to visit the village where not only my grandad was born and buried but also where my Daddy was born. On getting to the village I was filled with mixed emotions some happy some sad it was kind of exciting to be seeing the place where so much history on my fathers history began. On getting to little Milton we found my granddads house where he was born and lived and then we found the church yard and his grave which to m...

Today we did quite a bit of driving first to Gartrac for rob they sell Escort parts he could not go in so we grabbed a photo. We then headed to stone henge where I met up with my darling friend Kay Harris. We have been chatting for years and it was delightful to finally meet her. We caught up well we chatted and walked around the stones are amazing the place has a very airy strange vibe to it, maybe that was just us, I could go on for hours how it got there but I...

Moving on, today we left London and started our quick mini mini tour of some of the UK, We took the train to gatwick to pick our car up that we had pre booked months ago only to wait two and a half hours to be told we could not have the car we had booked!!!!!! We had to take the next model up and pay the extra 10 pounds a day, you could all imagine how happy Rob was about this only to be given a vauxhall. We got in the car to find all the instructions in European...

Well we were still on a roll from the previous couple of days, we had a quick breakfast and walked to kensington palace in the drizzle,that got heavier as we went along. With some kind words and negation a from me we stopped to buy an umbrella at the price of £5.95 and well worth it. We got there at 9.10am to discover it did not open till10am so I found shelter and Rob went for a walk around the park, I got chatting to two people who happened to be kiwis . I jus...