On saturday morning, Richard and I headed off to visit the Tate Modern museum. We passed through one of those markets you see when you watch Jamie Oliver cooking shows – where there is fresh fruit, fresh fish, sky-high piles of chocolate brownies and other yummy things, all just off the main street somewhere in [...]

Finally at last the sun has remembered how to work in London. This week has been just beautiful and sunny and warm and quite a welcome change from the grey damp coldness since we arrived. We met up with Debs and Graham and some of their mates in Bushey Park for a picnic. There are [...]

After Cardiff, we travelled with Martin to meet up with Mark (a rather hungover Mark) in Torquay. It’s known as the English Riviera and I can imagine that it must be a beautiful holiday town in the summer. On the Sunday we were quite lucky with the weather and got to have a great lunch [...]

Our bank holiday weekend started with a trip to Cardiff to visit Richard’s friend, Martin. We spent the morning walking around the Castle, and over lunch time took a scenic bus tour to get a brief look at the rest of the sights. This is the Norman Keep inside the grounds of the Castle. The [...]

For a few years, the idea has been to get to London. I’ve got some family up in Scotland and a few friends around the place and I thought it would be interesting to see what life would be like in a country where Green and Blacks and Haagen Daaz is plentiful. So after an [...]