We left Bristol just before 2pm and headed to Rome via EasyJet. We arrived with just enough daylight to see how dirty Rome's streets were but otherwise wern't angry, we were impressed!! Considering we arrived on a Sunday, what an incredibly busy and vibrant place it is!! Our Hotel (Eurostars international Palace) was great with good English speaking staff. We dumped our stuff and headed out to check out Rome and get a quick peak at the Colloseum. After that, we checked out a local outdoor restaurant and, since it would have been rude not too, ordered pizza & lasagne. It [View Full Entry]

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And what a wedding it was...Mikey all dressed up waiting for his wife-to-be to arrive, Kirsty arrived in a wonderful wedding frock to his amazement (she told him she was just wearing a suit) they did the deed in front of a church full of friends, family and a vicar who is going to make it his mission to get them to church every Sunday (as they live literally a few doors away). They had the celebrations at their newly renovated home, together with a band, Mike doing a spot of singing, a pig roast and enough alcohol to sink the [View Full Entry]

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There's nothing like standing in a windy field with about 300 other people staring at some rocks except Stonehenge. Nice if they had finished it and put up a roof but otherwise I give the English an 'A' for effort. Hauling these rocks 384km from the coast was obviously the original 'Rock & Roll' so I imagine it was the thing to do on a Saturday night back in 3000BC. Unfortunately, no matter how drunk you get, pushing a big rock for a 1000 years will tire out even the most hardcore 'rockers' so I really can't blame them. After our [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone, Sorry about the delay with blogging. Finding an internet cafe has been a bit difficult. Here are some pics of our day out punting on the Cam river in Cambridge with Gill. We got a chauffeured punt with a guy called Eddie who was frightfully english don't you know! He had a posh accent which we found pretty funny,but what was even funnier was those who hired a boat and tried to punt themselves. Mostly Eddie spent his time punting around all the people going backwards, sidewards and generally causing nautical mayhem. It was certainly the highlight of our [View Full Entry]

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Well hello there folks.. We have been having a few quiet days in Cambridge with family and friends so we don't have an awful lot to write really. We have been very well looked after though, Rich has decided that eating 35 meals a day (yes, he likes to exagerate!) is just too much for him and has cut his food down to just eating lunch. These brits know how to eat (or I think maybe it more because everyone we see wants to take us out for lunch or dinner!!) Rich is also now addicted to buying T-shirts - has [View Full Entry]

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We collected half my family in the Venga Bus and headed to the Crewe Arms for just a quiet lunch with about 20 of my rellies - great to get them all together as only see them once every 3 years !! Rich was trying to work out the northern lingo but seemed to be keeping up quite well. Later on we watched the All Blacks play nicely with the Portugese and Rich became an All Black for one night only..... [View Full Entry]

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Yeah Baby, yeah! Were off to Liverpool and the Beatles Museum led by our trusty Tom-Tom Navigator (GPS thingumy). Luckily for me, (as I like tunnels so much), Tom-Tom led us under the Mersey river in a tunnel. Unluckily, it was: A) The complete wrong direction B) £1.30 once you reached the other side. To say that we were a bit angry with Tom-Tom when, as soon as we paid our tunnel toll, it told us to go back under the river in the tunnel and pay again is an understatement. Note to self: Bellowing at Tom-Tom doesn't help, he just [View Full Entry]

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Ok, so Bing's mum offered to take us up to BlackPool to see the 'illuminations'. If you havn't been to BlackPool, imagine trying to build Las Vegas with a £5.67 budget. In the seaside part, which was basically just rubbish piled up in the mud, you could hire a sun lounger, (providing there was any sun - there wasn't) Only one person was enjoying the sun lounger, the vendor.. although, perhaps enjoying is too strong a word as he looked thoroughly hacked off. The other side of the street in Blackpool was made up of permanent easter show-type arcades, fish and [View Full Entry]

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So we left Mikey and Kirsty's about 11ish with a little bit of a sore head and headed up North to Stoke on Trent (where all the houses look the same) to catch up with the family. First stop in our bus was to cousin Mandy and Nik's then headed round to see the oldies (Grandad and Lil) to catch up and hear some of the famous Grandad stories (which he did in true style) and even cousin Kate dropped by. Evening was spent catching up with some more of the Jones's at Cousin Martin's house and his lovely wee family. [View Full Entry]

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We cleverly managed to organise our flight into Bristol on September 11th BUT we got there safely :) Collected our hire bus (we actually didn't book a hire bus, we got 'upgraded' from what was supposed to be a mondeo to a fuel guzzling 7 person people mover), it took a little while for me (thats Bing) to work out the highly confusing 'handbrake' which looked like something much more suited to an aircraft and than a bus!! I had absolutely no assistance or sympathy from Rich either after his terrifying Croatian driving experience! So off we headed to mums where [View Full Entry]

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