7 Day UK tour - Part 1: We set off on our 1 week tour of England, Scotland & Wales on Sunday just after 8am when we met our tour leader Michael (whose nickname was a challenge for us Aussies to use - it was "Abo") and fellow group members in London. Day 1 started with a visit to Stonehenge, one of the most famous monuments in the world, where typical English weather greeted us (gale force winds and sideways rain). Our recent joining of English Heritage came ...

Hello friends, After settling into our flat, getting jobs and Nat working her first day we decided it was time for another holiday. After all, it had been three weeks. This time we paid a visit to Jill and Mike, more of Ant's mums lovely hospitable friends, down on the south coast in Bournemouth. We caught a two hour bus on Friday night and arrived to a beautiful welcoming dinner. We woke on Sat to perfect weather to explore the coast. It stayed so nice tha...

Hello! It's been a while since our last entry but we decided to keep going with the blog for the smaller trips we have been doing. We went south to the county of Devon and stayed three nights with Mary, another mum like host, in the coastal town of Exmouth. To our luck we had three days of sunshine which meant we could just take it easy strolling along the beach and back along the cliff top. Of course a trip to Devon wouldn't be complete without trying the famo...

Hi loyal followers! Currently writing this on the Eurostar on the way to little old PARIS!! So before our big European adventure truly kicks off here is a recap of our first three days in the uk, soon to be our future home. If we were to have adoptive parents in the uk they would be Sylvia and mike. Leaving their place earlier today made us realize how much we had latched onto what was very much a resemblance of home. Home cooked meals, having our washing done, e...

Hey everyone! So we've arrived safely in London after a pretty amazing start to our trip! We were upgraded to business class for free for our 14 hour & 20 minute flight from Melbourne to Doha, which included lounge passes!! So after checking in and some difficult farewells, we helped ourselves to free champagne and buffet food in the lounge, and then found out our flight was delayed 45 minutes. Don't think anyone has ever been more pumped to hear about their...