Wednesday 9th May - We had a wonderful time at Ipswich with Loche's grandfathers cousin William and his wife Maureen. We left at around 9:30am en-route to Hamble near Southampton, where we again met up with Jason & Sonya Lowe and their daughter Abby who is 3 and a half and Sonya's mum Julia. We arrived mid afternoon and decided to have a few drinks at the Marina next door. Loche was in his element as the barman was a landrover man and so Loche was give...

Well for those who watch Grand Designs UK, you may remember a particular home where a large unused council water reservoir was converted to a home. So it was the 24th of April and we were driving around Seer Green region while Cara was fast asleep in the back seat. "Hey up" Loche's new saying, there's that house that featured on grand designs. Yes it was a five minute drive from the caravan park, oddly we had passed it the night before but could not see it fo...

The last week has been spent in Ipswich, north east of London. We have been staying with more of Loche's family here and once again have been made to feel so welcome! While we've been here we've done a bit of exploring around the area. We had a day in town looking around the shops and some of the historic buildings. We also spent a day at Felixstowe which is on the beach, it's also where the old fort is that I mentioned in our last entry. The fort was used in ...

So we decided to head down to London for a week to test out our Sterling 4 berth touring caravan. We decided on a park that was about three quarters of an hour out of London, Seer Green in Buckinghamshire. We drove each day to the nearest underground station and caught the tube in. The weather decided to do what it does best over here and turn ugly on us. But it meant we got the true feeling of being in England! We left Howden on Monday the 16th of April...

On Tuesday 24 April, we headed back to Howden for a few days to catch up with some good friends of ours from Australia who were staying about 20 minutes from Howden in Tick Hill. Jason and Sonya Lowe and their 3 year old daughter Abby, as well as Sonya's mum Julia are over here for a few weeks visiting relatives and doing a bit of sightseeing. We decided we'd all visit Castle Howard together on Wednesday and then head to a few English pubs for a pint or two!...