Well we are back from another wasted trip to see the cricket, we set out on Sunday morning and by the time we arrived at Leeds railway station it was all over, at least this time Australia won. So we had a couple of free days in Leeds to explore. The first day we walked into Leeds (took about half an hour) and roamed around, some very old places. The following day we caught the bus up to Kirkstall Abbey and Museum, it was drizzling rain when we left but by the t...

Well here we are back in London to catch our breath........off to Leeds tomorrow for the cricket (hopefully we make it to the fourth day) then on to York. Here is a little snapshot of our trip..... Day 1 we caught the Eurostar to Brussels and joined the coach tour there, we had an evening sighteeing tour then had to get some dinner, we finally found a cafe that had pictures.....then we could not go past the waffles.....we will start the diet when we get home!!!...

Well here we are in Paris on the last leg of our "Wonders of Europe" trip and we have had an amazing time..will update photos & blog when we get back to London....the keyboard is French and it has taken ages to get this far. Love to you all David & Vivienne

On Tuesday we decided to see London by boat, the weather forcast was not good but we set off anyway. First stop was Westminster where we got off and walked around the Houses of Parliment, the politicians were not sitting as it is their summer holiday but the security was still very high. We went over to Westminster Abbey and there was a huge crowd waiting to get in so we decided to give it a miss. Back onto the boat and went up to Grenwich, this time we had a ...

Well what a wonderful day, the only thing wrong was we didn't win, hopefully we will see more cricket when we go to Leeds as we have the 4th and 5th day there. It was amazing how smoothly getting to and into Lords was, the underground was packed but it was early, we arrived about 10ish and got some good seats two rows from the front after having our bag searched and body pat down !!, it was very cold, the sun did not want to come out and the wind was freezing, t...