A full day tour to Belfast left us still confused about the centuries of hate dividing this part of Ireland. The more we learned from our guides about the politics/religion of Northern Island the more perplexed we became. We saw for ourselves the huge dividing fences (barrier against lobbing Molotov's etc over) between residential homes of Protestants and Catholics. A few days before we arrived, there had been a protest march which had turned ugly with peopl...

 Leaving London to travel by bus to Lincoln (in Robin Hood country) was not quite leaving the bombs behind. It was an eerily quiet tube trip from Acton where we were staying, into the bus station the day after the bombings. The few people travelling (most took the day off knowing that transport would be problematic or because they had loved ones injured or killed)were eyeing each other off warily and looking at each others day packs apprehensively. After arrivin...

This is a special edition to celebrate that we were in Trafalgar Square for the big announcement that London had won the bid for the 2012 games. What an exciting day! There were 11,000 people in the square and a live concert of the best of British talent. Then when the announcement came mayhem broke out as everyone screamed, yelled, cheered and celebrated.We had planned a quiet day catching up on our web site work but saw on the morning TV that Trafalgar Square w...

How at home we felt, all of a sudden, flying British Airways! From check in when we were advised in a most apologetic manner that the flight would be delayed by two and a half hours (we were given $8 each food vouchers and an offer made to call someone, to advise we would be late) through to the entire flight the experience was great. We made the mistake (again!) of leaving our "kitchen bag" which contains knives in our hand luggage and instead of making us go ba...