The final day in London has come and I made the decision I was not going on the tube, or a bus or a ferry all day!! We slept in, Chels went back to the village for a while then came back and we had an early dinner. Then it was time for Chels to head off to the closing ceremonies, after she left I decided it was time to book some accommodation down in southern France, 2 hours later we still have nothing as everything is either booked out or very very expensive!!!!...

This morning was the day the Aubry family headed home, I have spent so much time with these guys over the past 2 weeks it was sad to say goodbye and after they had left it was a little weird to not have them around. This is the point I would like to say thank you so very much to all of you guys for spending so much time with me and accepting me into the family and the family holiday even when Chelsea was not around, I had the time of my life and you made it so e...

As today was our second day of having a car we decided to head south west. Our visit was to Hextable, this is where Shelley lived as a child for 2 years some 45 years ago. Amazingly her old house was still the same and the elderly man who opened the door was the man who purchased the house off her parents!!! After reminiscing and a bit of a walk around we went for lunch at Shelley's dads old pub, this was our first real country pub full of locals and you could te...

Rick had organized early on to hire a car for 2 days, so today we went and picked it up nice and early. It was a manual and in London is driven on the same side as Australia, which pretty much cancelled out all other drivers so I got the job of chief chauffeur! I didn't start the day well, I put in our destination of Windsor castle into the GPS and decided that driving through the center of London was going to be smart, it wasn't it we did 6 miles in nearly an ho...

Yesterday Chelsea picked up a voucher for the biggest and most expensive store of Harrods in London, so we went for an explore! We met Chelsea there it is a huge old building but the massive size is nothing in comparison to the humongous price tags, one watch we saw was 113,000 pounds! It wasn't even anything special. We then went for a tea in the rather cool tea rooms, each room in this massive store was painted and detailed very different depending on the produ...