Saturday 11th June - Avoided Portsmouth centre due to today being Market Place Day (with the spoken emphasis very much on the 'place') with all roads shut. Headed instead towards the White Mountains via an amazing circumnavigation of the UK - including Dover, Rochester, Durham, Newbury, Manchester and many more. Wolfboro (pronounced Wolfborrow with the emphasis on the very last syllable) claims to be the oldest American holiday destination and is a quintessentia...

Friday 10th June 9:45pm EST - got us a Chevy the size of a whale and about to set sail... Port Inn at Portsmouth a very welcome haven after 22 hours travelling. Dinner at the Dinnerhorn much better than name suggests - "awesome" seafood! Word of the day: 'arrsum' - meaning really quite good actually