Saturday 30 AugustWe spent the last few days of our time in the UK visiting friends and family and saying farewell and until the next time. We had a lovely evening in York with Shelly and Katrina's Mum and Dad and sister Nicola and nephew Lewis. A great night with my old work mates and my "previous" boss Sue and her husband Keith (promised I wouldn't call her "old" boss again!) and a really enjoyable afternoon with pals Sue and David Griffin...

Sunday 17 AugustNeil arranged to go flying from Sherburn Aero Club, with our friend Bill Munro, today. So we arrived at Sherburn at 5.30pm as we had been watching the weather all day and by this time the weather had cleared sufficiently to get an hour's flying in. We took off in a southerly direction and climbed to 3,500 ft and had great panoramic views of West Yorkshire. Neil had a go at the controls and negotiated left and right turns which involved slightly di...

Friday 15 AugustAfter Cornwall, we headed back, staying away from the motorways as much as we could and keeping to the A and B roads. We picked a route similar to that we took six years ago which included an overnighet stay at a B&B in a tiny village in Herefordshire called Ullingswick. We found the village and the Elizabethan house not knowing for certain that it was still being run as a B&B but luckily it was! Nothing much had changed in the six years s...

Monday 4-9 AugustBack on the road again and this time even further south and west to Cornwall to see our old friends Terry and Sandra who have recently moved from Halifax to Terry's home town of Marazion. There they have bought a cottage but, whilst they are working on its renovation, they are living on their beautiful boat, Fulminator, in Mylor Harbour, nr Falmouth. Unfortunately, we didn't get to see the Cornish sights at their best - St Michael's Mount, Mouseh...

30 July - 4 AugustWe originally met Rod and Alison in Wellington last year when they were introduced to us by our very good friend Lynda. (Lynda is the Secretary of the Ducati owner's club in NZ and Rod and Alison are Ducati nuts, so when they were planning to come to NZ on holiday they made email contact with Lynda and we were subsequently introduced when they arrived). It was lovely to see them again in their home village of Temple Cloud and wonderful to be ...