I managed to get to Oxford with my housemate Helen, just for a few hours today- its an expensive place, but worth visiting again. I really wanted to just see the university and the Eagle and Child pub- both bringing out my inner book geek :-) the pub is the one that the Inklings used to meet at for a drink- including the great CS Lewis and JR Tolkien themselves! We stayed until nightfall which meant we got to see the pretty streets and old buildings lit up and t...

Today was great! I have been wanting to go back to Stratford after briefly looking around it 8 years ago. My housemate, Helen, and I decided to pay out for the museum and house entrances which turned out to be quite fascinating and also valid for a year! We never got as far as Anne Hathaway's cottage so we can go back and do that again later and not have to pay again. I love the houses, they really are beautiful and take my breath away. I love cobbled streets and...

Wow!!! The best castle I have seen yet :) Dover Castle in Kent is practically untouched, apart from being redecorated inside the great tower, the original walls and tunnels are pretty much as they were 700 years ago. I had a great day- weather was windy and a bit wet but not worth whinging about, I went on the ghost walk tour with a bunch of little vampires and witches (being close to Halloween they had family activities and dress ups!) and I managed to do the s...

Farewell England! I shall see you again this afternoon :))

Being a y-gen (just).. I'm gonna be challenged this week with very limited wifi, I'm do have Internet access on my phone, but it's definitely not as good as the Apple iPod :) I'm standing in the ground floor lobby of the hotel the coach tour is staying at, you can see the fabulous carpet on the picture haha, it's very basic.. Bit run down but it's clean and the included buffet dinner was pretty good! There is only wifi on the ground floor and appears to be just ...