Beach with Sand !!

Today, we discovered a beach, with Sand. In the United Kingdom! That's right ! They aren't all pebbles.

Oooh, a shiney car !!!

It's been almost a year since I last got to drive a car. So today, we picked up a VW Polo from Wembley. It felt a bit odd, but at least it was on the right side.

We've always agreed that, as much as possible, we would avoid motorways and definitely tollroads - we want the picturesque pretty English drive. Turns out it didn't work as well in this regard as it did in Italy. But anyway, onward and westward.

Sad.

All of our thoughts are with those at home in Wagga just now.

BHP

BHP is one of the biggest companies in the world. Their helpdesk is currently outsourced to IBM, and run by about 5 or 6 guys in India. It seems this is upsetting the high level staff that work in the London office.

It was time

to pull the plug, and let the waters drain away from our trip to Bath. But we still had half a day or so, and some things to see.

From modern, to Ancient...

This relates to our second day in Bath, where, pleasingly, the weather cleaned up a little bit.
Today was also actually the day we went up the Abbey tower, despite my writing about it in an earlier post.

The Lengthening Shadow

Or shortening, I'm not sure? Anyway. It seems the longer days are almost here again.

For Whom the Bell Tolls...

The bell (at least, the bell in the Abbey tower in Bath) is tolled by me. That's right. I'm the one who rang the bells in the abbey at random times, and not on the hour.

But it's ok, I was allowed, it was part of the tour.

Cambridge Photos!

I told you I might.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/47930781@N03/tags/cambridge/show/

New photos

It's actually been ages since I've posted. However, in that time, we've been to Bath, Oxford and Cambridge.

You can see some photos of Bath here. I'll put up some of Oxford and Cambridge tonight.

I should mention, we're also planning our 11 day driving extravaganza, including a stay at Tintagel (the area reputed to be where Camelot, and Merlin's cave, are)

So stay tuned. I might even write about Bath, Cambridge and Oxford !!

Here's a photo to whet your appetite: