For Easter this year we decided to spend it in the UK and visit Cornwall - a region we had been told had some amazing scenery and places. We took the train down to Plymouth on Friday night and stayed the night there before picking up a rental car the next day. We drove to the Eden Project which are two large enclosures with plants from all around the world inside. Not typically our thing but it was very large and very impressive. We spent a few hours wandering...

After hearing so many wonderful things about the Scottish Highlands we thought we would head up for a long weekend around our birthdays. We flew into Inverness where we picked up our rental car and started driving down the Great Glen to Fort William. We stopped by the Loch Ness visitor centre to find out a bit more about Nessie and then stopped at Urquhart Castle right on the endge of the loch and had an explore. We arrived in Fort William to stay the night and...

After a lot of overseas travel recently we thought we should do a bit more around the UK and had a weekend in Bristol. We started the Saturday by trying one of the many cafés around town before heading to the start point for a walking tour. Unfortunately the guide was sick so there was no tour and we decided we would have to do our own tour. We checked out the Banksy mural on Park street before walking down to the Watershed where we jumped on a boat ride which...

We missed NZ a little so we went to Edinburgh for the long weekend - Edinburgh during the fringe festival is a little like Wellington during sevens. There were people everywhere in costumes, the main street was closed off and there were even a few people more drunk than you would expect in the middle of the day. We stayed in an awesome hostel with loads of character and an amazing breakfast included. We found a great pub to watch the All Blacks lose to Austr...

Whilst not as far as Lisbon, Portugal our trip to Chemlsford was still as exciting. We finally got to travel out of London by train and see some of the countryside... which looks rather similar to the countryside of NZ although with a bit more fog. The weather was dismal but it ws great to see that Heather hadn't been paying Brent to photoshop a husband into her photos and finally meet Toni. We enjoyed a leisurely brunch and some catch up time then wandered ar...