The only way we are ever going to get through this is with one step forward and two steps back. That means, I have to write this blog about our day traveling from Biddenden (Kent) to Asheridge (Buckinghamshire) while it's fresh in my memory. A memory that is seared from spending 2 ½ hours on the M25, traveling 130km…. skirting London from the southeast to the northwest. You think you've been in a traffic jam? When I finish this blog, I'll then...

At some point, I will catch up with the last week. For now, a brief revisit to yesterday. I've come down with a "summer cold" … I haven't a clue what it is. Sinuses blocked, chesty cough. Bloody uncomfortable. Anyway, were not to be slowed down but maybe a little today. We decided to make it another "hair wash day", which means a quiet slow morning and then just an hour at Smallgythe Place, the home of Ellen Terry. Ellen Terry you...

Of all the natural beauty spots that we had put on out list of places to visit, Beachy Head is the one that exceeded expectations. Only the day before we left Brighton with Littlington and Beach Head researched in detail, did I appreciate that many photographers have said that they couldn't pick between Dover and the cliffs of Beach Head. As for Littlington. What's at Littlington? Nothing as far as Ches and I know. There is supposed to be one of the giant ...

It's now Sunday 2nd July. We're on the isle of Wight. What am I to do? Post blogs about Brighton and the following day on the White Cliffs of Eastbourne from over a week ago or yesterdays fun filled adventure crossing on the ferry and daring to ride a chair lift down onto the beach below the coloured sands and the needles on the western end of IofW? O.K., I'm going to set myself the task of catching up on all days missed so far so that we can hit London and the...

Southampton to Brighton I'd forgotten that Drew and Keith had told us that the drive from Southampton to Brighton is just a chain of roundabouts. One of the most boring and trying drives in the UK. Wasn't I clever then in deciding to choose a route that would take us up the M3 to the outskirts of London and then across to Dorking. This is how Dorking bills itself: "The historic market town of Dorking is surrounded by the picturesque wooded Surrey Hills, an Area...