Wednesday Another full day. We had another fairly late breakfast in the very crowded breakfast room. Lots of foreign accents around as you would expect – not many speaking English. By contrast with the Ibis that Mary and I stayed in 2 years ago in East Aldgate, there are very few black faces at the hotel. Not sure if I should say that really, but it was very much more colourful at the Ibis – no pun intended. Off to the Underground just a few 100m down t...

Tuesday Had a leisurely breakfast down in the basement, lots of tables and not much space between and most people had to wait for a table. Breakfast perfectly adequate – continental with all the trimmings. We were not too sure what we were going to do today, but opted for the hop on hop off bus. This proved to be a bit of a pain as the roads were so busy throughout the city that we could have walked faster at times. We got off at the Tower of London and d...

Monday 18 July We had a lovely 3 days with Brenda and Fred. Very restful and not too much tearing around. In usual fashion Brenda and Fred had decided to kill the fatted calf and invite the family to lunch on Sunday. Fortunately most of my cousins couldn’t come (if they had there would have been no room), but B & F’s daughter Bridget, husband Greg and their children came, son Ken and his wife and daughter, and cousin Dennis all arrived to a sumptuous ...

Beverley to Baldock.It was another long trip today from Beverley to Baldock, made longer by the roundabout route we took to the East to Strubby to view the graves of Paul's long lost ancestors. We eventually found the churchyard down a very narrow lane. I think the Church is still in use, but the church yard is inhabited by sheep and electric fences, and lots of very old graves. We eventually found several Lindsey graves, but all were hard to read, so can only gu...

Still at cousin Gillian's in Beverley (near York) and no access to my photos on my computer, so hence the libary photo above of London - wont be there for a few days yet. We had a good day today. Jan and Kevin who are travelling around UK as well are staying within cooeee of Beverley in York. So we left fairly early this morning and drove the 35 minutes or so to the nearest York park and ride, took the park and ride bus into York, and spent the day with them. ...