With so much to do before embarking on our journey, our last few weeks in London went by incredibly quickly.
Before we knew it the whirlwind of house clearing, leaving parties, box packing, and general loose end tying was over. It was time to go. Read more…
1 comment June 27th, 2009
Once more it was time for the biggest event on the heavy metal calender – Wacken Open Air!
Every year, the sleepy town of Wacken in the north of Germany becomes temporary home to tens of thousands of metalheads who travel from the four corners of the globe for a few glorious days of German beer, sunshine (hopefully) and of course, heavy metal. Read more…
1 comment August 6th, 2008
The May Day long weekend lay ahead of us. Kevin’s copy of Rock Band for Xbox had arrived complete with guitar, mic and drum kit (!), the final of the Eurovision song contest was on Saturday, the Monaco GP1 was on Sunday, and we were very well stocked with beer, meat and BBQ coals. Game on! Read more…
Add comment May 26th, 2008
With a trip to Iceland planned for the weekend of Sarah’s 30th, we got everybody together on the previous Saturday for a birthday celebration.
After a lunchtime cocktail or two at home, we made our way into town for the business end of proceedings. Read more…
Add comment March 30th, 2008
After a great night seeing Anathema and Porcupine tree at The Forum we slept quite late on Saturday. But Kyle was only in London for a few days and we’d promised to take him to see Stonehenge. So after a lazy morning and a full English breakfast cooked up by Lynda all five of us piled into the Sunny and followed the ley lines west to the famous stone circle. Read more…
Add comment November 15th, 2007
After spending the morning organising accomodation for the coming long weekend, we finally left Anni’s place and made our way west through Speyside. Speyside is the region between the highlands and the east coast and is where around 70% of the world’s Scotch whiskey is produced.
Two of the biggest distilleries are located in and around Dufftown – a place strangely famous for it’s whiskey rather than its beer, despite what Simpsons fans may have expected. Read more…
1 comment August 28th, 2007
Just outside Edinburgh we stopped in at the small town of Bo’ness to see the steam railway and Scottish Railway Museum. We’d arrived a little early however and while we waited for the train to get rolling we visited the nearby auto museum to pass the time.
There were some great old cars there and a seemingly endless collection of movie memorabilia, old toys etc. This impressive collection included a white Lotus Esprit used in one of the James Bond films and for a limited time, the Ford Anglia used in the Harry Potter films! Read more…
Add comment August 23rd, 2007
Dad and Sue’s much-anticipated trip to the UK finally became a reality and they arrived at Heathrow in good shape considering they’d just come off a 23 hour flight from Sydney.
After a day to settle in to London we were off on our trip to Scotland – a destination that’s been on our todo list since we first came to Europe. Give the long-haul flight that the parents had just been through we thought it best to make our journey to Edinburgh in two stages and so our first port of call was Liverpool. Read more…
1 comment August 22nd, 2007
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