Thursday 24.12.2009 Day 70 Preston It snowed again last night but we had to sort out our car stuff before going back to the Eu so we went to the motor register in Preston. We tried to park in their car park but there was so much snow that we could park and there look to be cars that had been stuck there over night and they were trying to dig there selves out. We parked in a super market close by but had to walk though knee high snow to get back to the motor register lucky our car was sorted out within an hour and we got back to our resort safely. ... read more

Tuesday 22.12.2009 Day 68 Hadrian’s Wall All though is snow lots again last night we decided to brave the snow again today and go to Hadrian’s Wall. Hadrian ’s Wall was built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian in 122AD, it Stretches for 80 Miles from Newcastle to Bowness- on-Solway near Carlisle, and was the northern frontier of the empire for almost 300 years. It was superseded in Norman times by dozens of castles and fortified houses some of which remain largely intact. We went to see one of the forts that where still very intact it was closed due to winter but still worth the drive in the snow. The roads around the wall where covered in snow and we skidded along the road almost into another as we came to one intersection but we took ... read more

Sunday 20.12.2009 Day 67 The lakes, Rages against the machine get xmass number one. We have a great room close to Pine Lake (the lake the resort) with a full kitchen. We did our shopping yesterday which is good as there is so much snow on the ground that we cannot get out of our resort. We got in the car and gave it a try but did not get very far before we turned around and went home. So we explored the resort instead and made a snow woman and put it outside our room and a few hours a little boy about 5 came along and put in his sled and took it away. Later we found where he had discarded our Snowman taking the carrot nose and been eyes we rescued her and ... read more

Friday 18.12.2009 Day 65 Otters and dear We woke up and it was snowing again we feed our Robin and then drove to the Galloway forest again this time we found a Otter it had a viewing platform so that we could see the Otters we walked out to it but is was a long way from the water and the otters we thought we saw some over in the distance but is was not very exciting as they were so far away. What is the point of building a platform to see otters when they are so far away you do not know if you saw them or not and it would be more exciting to look at them in a photo them from there. We decided we wanted to get closer so we got ... read more

Wednesday 16.12.2009 Day 63 Brunston castle We woke up to more snow again today and fed our Robin again then we decided to go for a walk around where we are staying. We tried to go for a walk to Brunstane Brunston Castle which is now very dilapidated. It was built on a courtyard plan in the 16th century. It comprises an oblong enclosure, with a dwelling-house on the SE side and a projecting square tower at the N angle. Both were originally of two storeys and a garret. The date 1568 is cut above the lintel over the entrance to the house. The castle was still surrounded by a deep ditch at the beginning of the 19th century. The castle was burnt to the ground by the English under Lord Grey (in 1547), and ... read more