Huntingdon. Travelling from Oxford to Huntingdon was pleasant and uneventful, stopping at a town whose name I cannot remember, but it was another curtsey English town with the narrow streets, Christmas markets, stone wall encircling the town with its battlements. Fantastic. Huntingdon is an important bridge-head where the A1, the Great North Road, crosses the River Great Ouse near to Hinchingbrooke House (where I taught 6 years ago now - so long), once ...

Cambridge / Duxford Of course during our time in Huntingdon Janette had to visit Cambridge. So while she did the tour of the town I headed to Duxford 15 minutes from Cambridge. Duxford was a major air force base during World War 11 for the English and Americans. It is now part of the Imperial War Museum with lots of good aviation stuff. Since my last visit they have rebuilt and enlarged the No 1 hangar with lots of new things. Check it out on www.iwm.org....

Oxford. We had a slow entry due to the congo-line of traffic entering Oxford, what's the reason? Don't know. It was bitterly cold, we found the YHA and booked in, a 10 minute walk to the centre. Parking is an issue in Oxford generally, but at this time of the year and being early in the week we stayed in the 2 hour zones. Managed to find the Randolph Hotel (The Morse Bar) and had a scrumptious English 'Christmas' Cuisine, very traditional. The food was Miche...

Bath. The road to Bath was icy and we took our time, we certainly did not expect this weather, however we are enjoying ourselves and we feel very much part of the UK landscape, chilled. Keith and I have had a peaceful week at Lymington, at Elmer's Court Manor House. We were surprised about this booking. It is more than we expected. Mind you we are now in Bath and it's anamazing place. It's in a deep valley and surrounded by rings of buildings. The whole city i...

Lymington. The UK is having a big freeze and the day's max. temp was 3C. Arriving at Lymington on Saturday we Tom-Tommed our way to the Elmer's Court Manor House (and Vacation Resort) where we had been booked in for a week. Lymington is about 30 minutes drive from Southampton and is obviously a very popular holiday resort in the summer with many marinas, lots of yachts and expensive looking boats and only a short ferry ride to the Isle of Wight. Elmer's Court...