Last day in London this time round. We said our goodbyes in the morning to Vicki who had to drag herself off to work today. Packed up and off to Fulham to meet up with Jess (ex-Greenhill volunteer) and her 5 month old son, Mads. Jess' place was a little far from any tube stop so we ended up taking the bus to get up to Fulham. Transport system in London is pretty comprehensive and pretty efficient (when there are no breakdowns!). It was fun riding on the red doubl...

Day 2 in London started with a morning snuggle with Vicki. Kate loves snuggles and decided the more the merrier. Whilst Kate and Vicki were chatting away, Calvin was looking up for things to do for the morning. A spontaneous decision was made to go up to the Sky Garden at 20 Fenchurch Street. Entry is free but you have to reserve a ticket online beforehand. It was 9:30 am and there were 2 available tickets for 10:30 am and 1 for 10:45 am (sometimes there are no t...

Calvin and Kate made their way from Maidenhead to London for a brief 2 night stay in this great city. John kindly drove us to the train station in Maidenhead where we bought Day Travel Cards which meant we could travel on the rail, tube, trams and buses. It was between on-peak and off-peak by this time (9:30 am) and our cards were off-peak travel but we somehow ended up on the on-peak express train to Paddington Station - not illegally though as we did check with...

We had a cooked breakfast at the B & B and outside the window we could see the heavy Oxford traffic so we decided not to rush to leave otherwise we would be in the car for ages! We left at about 9:30 - it only took about 1 hour to get to Maidenhead. There we were warmly welcomed by Linda and John (Linda is Kate's dad's cousin). Fiona came in for a cuppa and a chat. We then had to say a very sad farewell to Fiona as she had to head back on the 4 hour car journ...

We had a delightful start to the day with Scotch eggs for breakfast (that we bought the previous day). Then it was time to say goodbye to Richard and Barnaby as Fiona, Calvin and Kate went off in the car to Oxford. It took about 3 hours to get there, just stopping once for a quick coffee. Our B & B in Oxford was very nice and we certainly got that English feeling when we stepped in. We then walked into town and wandered around for a bit, before meeting Andrew...