Sometimes we are not sure whether we want to be young or old! Manchester saw us catch up with the Hammond girls from Australia and we wanted to be young to have a great night out (and we did! - more about that later) Liverpool saw us get into the Beatles Museum at Seniors Price - Yippee!!!. We are OK about being old for reduced entry price!We arrived back in Manchester from Ireland and reunited ourselves with our (London) hire car and drove to our lovely, but in...

Wales has some BIG brooding castles mostly all built in a frenzy of castle building by King Edward towards the end of the 13th century. A total of 8 castles and walls were built in this era and are UNESCO Heritage listed. We picked out two castles to visit, Conwy and Beaumaris.Looking at the map and deciding where we should be looking for accommodation for the night, we decided it should be a place name that starts with double L. Wales is full of them and as Avan...

2nd day in our "Amazing Race" style adventure in Ireland, saw us go right across from West to East of Ireland to arrive at the Archaeological Sight at the Bend of The Boyne by mid afternoon. The truly amazing thing about this area is that it wasn't "discovered" until the 1960's. Up until then present man had accepted these strange shaped green hills as part of the scenery. Digs are still happening today and the various significant sites have been protecte...

We are back on the road, in a hire car again. Well, actually two! We hired a car in London, did a day of sightseeing then left the first car at Manchester airport while we did a 48 hour trip to Ireland, hired a second car there, then came back to our London car for 5 more days of sightseeing! Phew! - very confusing when each car and GPS is different, but at least the Brits and the Irish drive on the left hand side!But back to our first day out of London. We trave...

Seeing London's sights (even when you have been to London before) are such a pleasure.We chose different sights this time, but all around are the key elements, the much remembered monopoly street signs, the London Eye and "Gherkin" visible from just about everywhere, red double decker buses and phone boxes, black square taxi cabs, and the unfailingly polite and ever helpful English people.You never feel out of place in London. It has the feel that it has been...