Blogs from Corsham, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

How time flies when we spend it with our Norwegian family. As explained in my last blog, life in Bergen with the kids is full of events and sport, with interesting places to be and some lovely family occasions. Great family meals with the kids. Great evening pancake Fridays at Rune and Lillians, and the opportunity to celebrate Sofia's birthday at Thomas and Anne Lena's house. So fortunate to be included in these family get togethers. The day before leaving Bergen we celebrated Lilly's 15 birthday as we would not be there for that occasion, and they would celebrate it in the sunshine in Spain. Our 6 weeks just disapeared but the memories of all that we did will remain with us. So, so nice to catch up with everyone and enjoy being part of the ... read more

Here in England we are continuing to have great weather. Enjoying the country side, walking and discovering new places to visit. We had friends from NZ pop into see us, Dave and Jan Goldsack with another couple, who were traveling around the area. A really nice catch up and a chance to show them some of the wonderful places that we walk and visit. I do love catching up with people from home when we are away. One of my highlights has been the Royal International Air Tattoo held at Fairford Air Force Base. An amazing day, with Pete, Simon and Kevon, watching Jets, Bombers, Transporters, Helicopters, Stunt Jets, and demonstrations of a fantastic variety of planes, old and new, from all over the world and from many different countries. Watching a jet go past at ... read more

At last. We have left the cold of our NZ winter and arrived yesterday in England to wonderful warm weather. I do find that the cold of winter is getting harder to take, so I am very pleased to look forward to the next 3 months in the warmer climates. We left home, NZ, at 4.45pm on Monday the 2nd July and flew NZ to Hong Kong then right through to Heathrow, London, arriving at 2.30pm on Tuesday the 3rd, so a trip of 30 hours after crossing the date line. Very tiring but thats the way it is. So now we are spending the next 4 weeks in Corsham at Pete and Helens. We just love this place and all of the surrounding area, where the walking is great, the country side magic, and the ... read more

We arrived at Heathrow last week and went to Stephanie and Robin's new house in Romford, London to spend a couple of nights before heading south to Corsham, near Bath. So nice to catch up with the two of them and see their house which they only moved into a few weeks ago. A nice evening spent catching up then up early to catch the train, then tube, in to Oxford St, London to meet up with Terri Seamark from Kirkcaldie's days for a catch up. We had coffee and scones while we talked and Di went of to look around a couple of shops while Terri and I caught up with any gossip we knew and then the 3 off us went and did a bit of shopping in Oxford St. Terri left Di and ... read more

I have lots of places that I have been to which I always want to return to and the Cornish Coast is one of them. We first went there way back in 1991and I always enjoy revisiting it. So we drove across to the beautiful Clovelly fishing village first. {Not Cornish}but beautiful. Stayed right on the waters edge at The Red Lion Hotel. The village has a lot of history and it is beautiful to stroll from the top down to the harbour. Could quite easily spend a few days there. Down the coast to Boscastle, the first of the Cornish coasts magic fishing villages with a great history, even recently when it suffered a huge flood that washed most of it out to sea in 2004. It has been lovingly rebuilt and still retains its ... read more