After a good night’s sleep we awoke to a glorious morning. It was bit early for Kath and Albert to be up and about so we dragged out our maps and guides and started trying to decide where we could visit to take advantage of the great weather. We thought about heading down to Stoke-on-Trent, but then noticed a couple of National Trust properties near Congleton that sounded like they might be worth a visit. After a full English breakfast Albert asked us what we might like to do with the day. We told him that we thought it might be [View Full Entry]

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OMG, we were surrounded by children on the leg from Singapore to London!! There was a man and his young daughter in front of us, a young boy across the aisle from Bernie and another man and his daughter behind us! My idea of hell. The little darling sitting behind me kicked and pushed the back of my seat for almost all of the 13 hours that this leg took. Despite this irritation I did manage to sleep for some of the flight. When I gave up trying to sleep to the staccato rhythm of kick, kick, kick in the back [View Full Entry]

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Well, we were up at our usual time this morning (maybe even a little earlier) even though it was the first day of our holidays! We headed off while it was still foggy … and dark to take the dogs for one last walk before going on holidays without them for six weeks. They were thrilled to pieces to be taken for a much longer than usual morning walk, little did they know that their mum and dad would soon be leaving them behind! After our walk we had breakfast and showered and did a little bit of housework to put [View Full Entry]

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