Kerry and I are in London, we just flew in today from Rome. Last week we finished our jobs and packed up our room in Durham and flew to Rome on Saturday. We spent Sunday exploring the colleseum (and surrounding ruins), the center of Rome, the Vatican and basicly walked until we dropped. We loved it. We stayed in a friendly backpacker hostel called the Beehive. It was run by an american couple who are probably somewhat green at heart and have set up an organic caf...

This weekend was spent in Norway. Friday morning we flew from Newcastle to a city called Bergen, just a 70 minute flight, both having taken the day off work. Upon arrival in Bergen it was pouring down. Apparently it rains in Bergen 260 days of the year. A 20 minute bus ride into Bergen city and we were wandering around under our rain jackets and umbrella. Bergen is surrounded by 7 mountains and 7 Fjords, the Fjords offer some pretty good fishing which Bergen boas...

It's been awhile since we updated this blog - mainly because we've had a our heads down working - but we finally got away this weekend so we have something to write about! The coach company i'm working for is doing trips to the Edinburgh Tattoo every weekend in August, so we thought we'd tag along with the nannas and see what the Tattoo's like in reality. So, we hopped on the coach Saturday morning to drive up to Edinburgh where we had a few hours free to look ar...

Kerry and I spent the weekend in Dublin, Ireland's capital. We flew in early saturday morning and immediately bought ourselves an unlimited bus pass for the weekend. The first stop was to visit the famous Jameson Whiskey distillery. The Irish are very proud of their whiskey and spent considerable time explaining why they think it is better than Scotch Whiskey. We sampled some of the whiskey before leaving, but Kerry and i not being massive Whiskey fans would ...

Hi AllThis weekend Kerry and I both worked yesterday, but we both had today off so we went for a drive to Northumbria. We had heard about a castle and gardens in a small town called Alnwick. So we headed off in Buster to explore them. Alnwick gardens is renouned for having a massive tree house and for having pristine gardens. It was really impressive, the castle is set next to the gardens. The gardens contains a huge water feature and several different types of g...