Our last two days in France were just as busy, with a visit to St Malo, just beyond Mont St Michel, on the Wednesday, and a morning on the beach on the way back to the ferry on Thursday.
We took the scenic coastal route to St Malo, and couldn’t resist stopping to pick up some [...]

After getting back from the Lakes we had a weekend at my parents’, not doing an awful lot, but still somehow not having enough time to see everyone we wanted to. A few people joined us for the afternoon in the pub and a (rather lively) Vietnamese meal… of which there are luckily few pictures. [...]

The rest of the Lakes trip was fairly action-packed:
A visit to GoApe, where you get to swing around in the trees (safely harnessed at all times), 50ft off the forest floor, clambering over bridges from tree to tree, whizzing down zip lines and making monkey noises.

Plenty more eating at the massive table in the house, [...]

After day to adjust and unwind a bit, in Woking (including our first meeting with the hilarious Snoop tha Dogg at Neil and Diane’s), we set off for the Lakes early on Friday morning. On Saturday we relaxed, explored the village of Coniston, and rambled up a nearby hill to find the waterfalls. It rained [...]

Not the first journey back to the UK, and probably not the last, but there won’t be many like this one was! We flew with Delta, via Minneapolis, on a ‘buddy pass’: a colleague of mine has a nephew working at Delta, and the buddy pass allows friends and family to get heavily discounted tickets… [...]