London The top 10 things... So lots of people have asked us what we are most looking forward to about going home, and what the things we will miss the most are as well. Without further ado, here are our Top 10 things… Top 10 things we are looking forward to Tim Karina Molly Proper
London We had visitors! We enjoyed a lovely long weekend with visitors from Ireland; Sophie, Andrew and Alexandre. On the tube going to Borough MarketsNice to have an excuse to eat out and do fun things, and get a babysitter for a night out without kids! Andrew likes to cook, and Sophie likes to
London Jaspers Tooth It turns out that the abscess wasn’t healing by itself with the anti-biotics, so Jasper had to go back to the dentist on Friday afternoon. An X-Ray, three injections and then he had his tooth extracted. He was very brave although he did say afterwards that it “nearly” made
London A quiet week It’s been a quiet week since we returned on Tuesday, but of course I realise as I say that, that in reality it hasn’t!There was a teachers strike on Thursday (strangely there are multiple teachers unions here, so one union went on strike and the other two
London Le Mont St Michel On the Monday, we really didn’t do much — lazed around and the kids really wanted to stay in the holiday house, so it was a quiet day. Tuesday however was home time, so it was up early and packing, then heading off for the day. Mont St Michel is
Le Mont St Michel On the Monday, we really didn’t do much — lazed around and the kids really wanted to stay in the holiday house, so it was a quiet day. Tuesday however was home time, so it was up early and packing, then heading off for the day. Mont St Michel is
London St Malo On Sunday we decided to head over to St. Malo and check out the scenery. It’s interesting historically how interconnected all of these countries are, St, Malo is named after a Welsh saint. There is a very different feel to the old city of St. Malo from Dinard, while
London Dinan Dinan is a wonderful medieval town which is very quaint, touristy and picturesque. It’s also only 20 minutes drive from where we were staying, so a great opportunity to visit.I feel that, like so many of the places we saw over the weekend, that no one photo could
London La Moinerie After three days in Reading, it was off on holiday again. I’m almost sick of them… almost.Karina found a wonderful holiday house in Brittany just south of St Malo called La Moinerie (near Plouer Sur Rance) and we arranged with the O’Dwyers to meet them there. We
London The beard... You may notice in some of the Scotland (and soon to arrive France) photos, I’m looking a bit hairy. I decided to cultivate a bit of a holiday beard, which after MUCH protesting from Ella, I finally shaved off today. Ella happy the beard is about to go Karina
London The journey home The final day, Monday the 14th was totally exhausting. We had to get up, pack bags, clean the van then return it to Glasgow. From there we had to kill around four hours until we could head to the airport.We cruised the centre of town (paying 6 pounds a
London The penultimate day The penultimate day and again, the recurring question, what to do? Who’d of thought that Scotland had so much to offer. More decisions were in order. Although we can’t leave these things completely to the kids (whose preference is to stay in the van and watch TV), it
London Cairngorms Saturday morning! We all slept in, cooked a huge breakfast, did some washing of clothes etc. then set off very late! We headed further into the Cairngorms to the Ski Resort and caught the vernicular railway to the summit.There is well over a metre of snow on the summit
London Loch Ness Casting my mind (and my diary entries) back to Friday the 10/4/08 and continuing our Scottish camper van holiday…As Jasper and I seem to be the only two that actually enjoy the driving, I decided to get up early and get some miles out of the way
London Interval... For want of a better description! Since the last post, which didn’t quite finish our Scotland adventures, we’ve been to France and back now on yet another holiday. We had another wonderful time and once I complete the Scotland posts, we’ll get on to sharing our adventures
London Isle of Skye Thursday 10th April 2008We set off around 9:30am and drove the 12km up the road to Eilean Donan castle, the most photographed castle in Scotland. We added a couple of pictures ourselves. Here’s our shot of Eilean Donan castle.It’s on a tiny isle about 40 metres
London Mountains and more mountains Wednesday 9th April 2008Plog, Day Three. Woke up this morning and cooked up a big fry up for breakfast while still in my pyjamas. Terrible mistake, I’m in my PJs now as I write this and I can still smell bacon frying!The kids seemed a bit brighter today
London Sick Kids and Sizzling Sausages Tuesday 8th April 2008Both kids are still not well this morning, but we dragged them up the William Wallace monument anyway! All 246 steps. the view from the top was not quite as sensational as the Ochil Hills, but grand anyway. View from Willam Wallace monument, near Stirling.It shows
London Travel, travel and more travel Monday 7th April 2008 Given that one thing this campervan doesn’t have is a computer and internet, all these blog entries are being composed by hand to type in later. I plan to write daily using pen and paper, a technique I call ‘personal logging’ or ‘plogging’ for short.
London Scotland Overview We returned from a week long holiday in Scotland a couple of days ago; one of the best holidays we have ever had. We weren’t too sure about just the 4 of us cramped into a tiny campervan all week (Ella vomiting from car sickness, us yelling at eachother
London It's snowing! Which is not neccessarily good news. The kids have just started their holidays and tomorrow we are off to Scotland to spend a week travelling in a Camper Van. If it’s cold and snowing in London, then it will be very heavy further north!Still, it was a very
London Another war museum.... We visited the National Army Museum on Sunday, primarily because it has a wonderful indoor play centre for free. Most of the museum was deserted except for the play centre which was teeming with kids and parents holding coffee cups.I was amused at the ‘poshness’ of it all. The
London Snow at Easter It really did snow at our house on Easter Monday. Quite a surprise and so, so beautiful. It wafted down like fairy dust and everyone in our house was smiling. It just made us feel happy – to finally see snow in London. The view from the master bedroom onto Wiseton
London Why AFL is better... or funnier at least. From The Age By contrast, after Saturday’s embarrassment, Connolly said Jesus Christ himself would have struggled to fire in the Demons forward line.“I have been challenged on that. I said Jesus Christ wouldn’t have kicked any goals at centre half-forward because we would have moved him into
London Snow in Boston (again) On the subject of snow, one of my work colleagues sent me this picture yesterday that he took of us loading into the cars during the snow storm we had when I was there a few weeks ago. I thought it shows the conditions pretty well.
