On Tuesday 23rd June we drove from Wooler to Edinburgh past the Angel of the North which welcomes you to Scotland. Checked into a lovely hotel with not too many stairs this time, walked into Edinburgh CBD which took about 30 minutes. Most of the city centre was under road reconstruction as they are putting in a tram system, which was very disappointing as it was not very photogenic. Next day we got a bus pass which we could use all day for £3.00 (bargain) and ...

Hi all, well we are back from our trip to Scotland, the internet access was not good up that way so we unfortunately couldn't update as we went along so we will do a few snapshots of our trip. We started our journey on Sunday 21st June, our first stop was Holy Island, Lindesfarne we stayed at Wooler which is close by in a 17th Century coach inn, The Black Bull, lovely old place with lots of stairs......and I mean lots of stairs we were exhausted by the time we h...

We had a relaxing day today and went with Colin to look at a new car that he was interested in (a Jaguar - British Racing Green), but after closer inspection it was decided that it was not the car for him. We then toured the shops for Viovienne to try to locate scrapbooking items (no luck I am afraid) but it was very nice anyway just mooching around, we then headed home and watched the Ausies ladies lose the Semi-final of the 20-20 cricket world cup to the POMes...

Hi all We have had a wonderful weekend, it started off with dinner at The Crown in Henlow with Colin's workmates from the Post Office, they managed to get a few stories from David to use.....all in good fun of course. It was a lovely evening. Yesterday we headed off to Cambridge, unfortunately exams were in progress so we could not get into any of the colleges but there was a fair on the green with all sorts of things and a market in the square. We got to see...

Hi all, well we have not done much this week as the flu has kept us housebound. We ventured out and went for a walk to the local shops "The Grange" on Thursday then went into Letchworth yesterday and booked our trip to Europe, heading off on 25 July so that is something to look forward to, travelling to Belguim on the Eurostar and then down through Austria and Switzerland to Italy and then on to France, 12 days so that will be an experience. We have b...