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We are currently oot and aboot in Scotland... As per usual it is sunny - the sun seems to have followed us the whole way round England and into Scotland so far. We are in the middle of our UK road trip which started last Tuesday.
We picked up our wee car at London Stansted when we flew in from Riga. It is a blue Fiat Punto (same as last time). We drove down to Bournemouth for the night which is quite a nice town. It has a sandy beach - much to Lynnie's delight :)
The next morning we went for a drive into Christchurch which is much more of a hole than the one in NZ... There were somewhat less earthquakes though. Then we continued onto Plymouth via Newquay which was another sandy beach with a cute little town centre. We enjoyed it there. Plymouth is a nice place too.
The next day, on our way to Penzance, we went to the Minack Theatre which is an outdoor theatre built into a cliff and made mostly of rocks. The road to get to it was scary as. It was really steep and skinny - enough room for one car yet it was a 2 way street! We saw some cool views from there too - google it - it's cool! While in Penzance we also visited Land's End and managed not to fall off.
We continued back up the other coast visiting Padstow (where we saw Rick Stein's fish and chip shop - however we did not dine there as it was a rip) on the way to Bridgwater where we stayed for one night then continued onto Trowbridge.
In Trowbridge we stayed with a friend of Lynnie's and went on a day trip to Weston-Super-Mare to visit another friend. It was a nice day.
We realise this is sounding quite boring but it has actually been a fun road trip and we haven't been able to skype you all for so long that you probably don't know where we have been anyway. In just over a week we have done over 1000 miles so far.
After Trowbridge we went to Barry Island to check out the setting of Gavin and Stacey. It was out of season so most things were shut and it looked like a bit of a hole. We can see how it would be nice in the summer though... We stayed in Llanelli that night which is near Swansea.
The next night we spent In Birmingham (thanks PIppy xo). Was nice to see the Chavs again lol But even nicer to see Pippy!
Our road trip continued in Manchester and then Leeds and York. Of which York was by far the nicest! We went to a castle there it was cool.
Yesterday, we drove into Scotland stopping at a couple of heritage sights on Hadrian's Wall and then Glasgow for a couple of nights. Today we are spending the day looking around Glasgow before we head up north tomorrow.
We are looking forward to seeing Nessy soon we will take lots of photos of him for you. Over the next week we will be going to Fort William, Isle of Skye, Loch Ness, Aberdeen and then back to Edinburgh when we fly to Ireland next Saturday.
Hope you are all still ok after the 100s of earthquakes. Talk to you soon
Love Court and Lynnie xoxo
P.S. They have had the Christmas stuff out here for a couple of weeks already... They have some cool stuff though!
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