My cheeky squirrel buddy is back this morning. Still can’t coax him any closer though. We are headed to Hampton Court today, something we’ve been meaning to do each time we are in London, but […]
My cheeky squirrel buddy is back this morning. Still can’t coax him any closer though. We are headed to Hampton Court today, something we’ve been meaning to do each time we are in London, but […]
The day starts with a long walk in the Gorrick Woods, ostensibly a forestry plantation with the old woods intertwined. The older trees are mostly oak and silver birch, the forestry plantings, pine. People often […]
A small break through in technology today, I crack the Chromecast set up which has eluded me thus far. Having set it up though, the internet speed is too slow to run it. Baby steps, […]
There’s holidaying and there’s travelling. I suspect that holidaying has a lot more lying around pools, reading and drinking cocktails… travelling has a lot more “getting ready to travel” activities. Some drinking, I’ll grant you that.
Our road trip officially starts. We pick up our motorhome and Chris goes about the business of getting it ready for travel whilst I unpack. It’s kind of bulging at the seams. This is our fourth trip and we’ve accumulated, it seems, a lot of stuff.
Despite the number of times we have been to London, we have never managed to make it to Notting Hill’s famous Portobello Road market. That’s finally set to change today.
Post lunch we head out to Kensington Gardens, adjacent to the Palace. It’s a glorious day, no sign of the humidity that’s hung around the last few days.
Major excitement today… It’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child day, finally. It’s been a long time coming. It’s been many months since I registered, waited patiently for the chance to be in the ticket ballot, less patiently for ticket release, then blind panic following the announcement that despite taking months to get that far, the opportunity to buy tickets would be awarded in random order from a set “live” time.