A Month in the Uk

Stonehenge

Church at the Welsh Heritage Village

Rooftops of York

Joyce and Neil

Ivy, Tina and kids

Flower at Audley Edge

Duxford Air Museum

Me and Maddy at Duxford

Clifford's Tower York

Caerphilly Castle

BBQ at Joyce and Neils

Audley Edge

We finally left St. Helena on July 17th saying goodbye to all our friends and family there, and travelled to the UK. Due to circumstances beyond our control tha flight from Ascension was 12 hours late which meant we arrived in the UK at 10:30 pm, this was when we hit a small problem. To get the keys for our car we needed to call Avis and get the code for the key box, unfortunately Avis assume everybody has a mobile phone! Fortunately the lady working for Brize Norton Car hire let us borrow hers, so without too much more ado (3 door car instead of the 5 I had asked for) we were on our way.

Geoff navigated and the M25 had roadworks so we arrived at Ivy's 1:30 am after visiting a number of places not quite on the direct route. In the end I pulled into a garage and we bought an AA map. Ivy and Bob were waiting up for us and quite relieved to see us.

We spent the next month visiting family and playing at tourists, up and down the A1 and in and out of hotels. The Travel Lodge at South Cave is not on our list of favourite places, however, theHoliday Inn in Hull city centre, the Four Poster Lodge in york and the Travel Lodge at Colton rated from acceptable to good.

We joined English Heritage as part of our tourist kick and visited as many of their properties we could as we travelled. I took hundreds of pictures (as usual) but tried to pick just one of each place. I also took pictures of Hull, Leeds, Hatfield and York so we can look at the different cities we have visited and lived in.

Just before we flew out we travelled across to stay with Joyce and Neil, Geoff's aunt, in Cardiff. The AA instructions from the internet took us through Cardiff City centre, which made the trip all the more exciting. In the end I navigated! It was a good weekend, looking at Dr. Who and Torchwood locations as well as visiting the Dr Who exhibition. The Torchwood waterfall was dissappointing as there were giant strawberries on it and the water wasn't flowing very fast.