Our tour ended at the Mormon Tabernacle, home of the famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir, who obviously hadn't planned for our arrival as they let us down rather badly by not performing while we were there. Still, you can't have everything. The building is certainly impressive, being a domed structure 250 feet long and 80 feet high - but I decided not to mention St Paul's Cathedral as our guides were clearly very excited about the whole thing and under the impression ...

Well, Salt Lake City is one of the places I've been looking forward to visiting for a while, although most of yesterday was spent on the road actually getting here and I didn't even see the outskirts of town until something like three in the afternoon. This is the famous city of the Mormons, and my father has been telling me for some time how beautiful it is ever since he came here himself on one of his trips to the United States, so I was obviously going to be q...