Surrey
Travel Blogs from Surrey, United Kingdom
Last minute panic....
Right we're off this morning.... Flight via Zurich to Hong Kong then into China..... We have wizzed round England and Wales in the last few weeks, apologies if we didn't make it to see you, some piccys above, sorry Chris... Rachel's brother got ...
Ash and Shivani's Wedding
A great day at Ash' and Shivani's wedding. An early start meant we were there in time to see Ash arrive in an old Morris Ambassador, ride his horse to the "House" and then a day of wedding ceremony (Civil + Hindu) and catching up with loads of Emma's ...
There's even a Sainsbury.
... you have been to Boa Vista, Brazil, and found that incredibly dull, then maybe you should try Chertsey (a small town in Surrey) for your next holidays. Aparently the eighteenth century landscape designer Richard Woods came from here. There's even a ...
Wednesday 3 September
Wednesday 3rd September After breakfast we left Brighton to drive up to Reigate and on to South East London to Lindy's house. We were going to look after Gabriel for the afternoon as she had gone back to work this week and Gabriel ...
A quick visit home..
We flew back into the UK on Friday May 20th for a short visit home and had a weekend of partying with friends and family. On the journey up the M6 on Friday (after Mandy's Mum and Dad had kindly picked us up from Heathrow) we got stuck in traffic for 3 ...
Thursday 28 August
Thursday 28th August We spent the day in Reigate again and my Mum spoke to the neighbours about borrowing their car. They have very kindly offered to lend it to us for the time we are here. Steve and I went round to meet Sarah to confirm ...
Monday 25 August
Monday 25th August Our last day in North America! We got up at 6.30 and had a quick breakfast, showers etc and we were driving out of the RV Park by 8.30. We had arranged to meet the daughter of the new owner at 10 am in ...
Tuesday 26 August
... about the weather..... We had too much of the stuff in the US quite frankly. We drove to Leatherhead which is in Surrey and is on the way to Reigate along the M25 motorway. We had been invited to have lunch there with Nadine and Gavin at ...
Friday 29 August
Friday 29th August We are still waking up a bit late so we are a bit slow to get going in the mornings! Steve and I took Holly and Zach out on a bike ride this morning. We went off the road and down a local bridal way, through ...
Wow.....
Hello all. Ok, so I'm not in Brazil, still stuck in Farnborough. Kind of a good time to update this, as I am at work (bored) and currently abusing the internet. I am due to leave for India at the end of April, but certain things have come to light ...
The Eating Challenge
I'm at Stefan's house and the lot of them have gone to Sweden, leaving me to fend for myself. Not that I mind at all; it beats staying at home an extra 5 days... I'm chilling out in expectation of hard travel in Ethiopia. Having just done a week long ...
Saturday 6 September
Saturday 6th September The kids were up horribly early which spelled disaster as they had gone to bed horribly late last night. However they all seemed in good spirits and played well together. We had a delicious cooked breakfast ...
The day has arrived
The day has arrived! We are off bye-bye everyone we will keep you updated and let you know how we are getting on on our little trip! Just to get you started here are a few photos from the leaving bash aka the mullet massacre!! Thank-you to ...
Sunday 7 September
Sunday 7th September We spent the day in Reigate today as my Mum had arranged for her brother Dick and his wife Rani to come over for lunch. We had a lovely time with them. Julie made a wonderful home made curry and we had Rani's famous ...
Sunday 31 August
Sunday 31st August Lindy and Gabriel came down today for lunch. We spent a while chatting and catching up on things. Lindy's partner Howard didn't come but we will no doubt meet him at a later stage. After delicious spaghetti ...
Wednesday 27 August
Wednesday 27th August As you can imagine it was hard to wake up this morning after being wide awake in the middle of the night. You may find it funny to know that Steve and I are sleeping in my parent's caravan!! It is actually much better than ...
Thames Walk, Day 10
... was a memorial for it !!! Under the M25, we were now in what some people say is London, even though we were in Surrey !!! Then along came Staines. There were some interesting sculptures of swans. Bit different to the ones we had been seeing. Into ...
100,000
Just a quick note to say thanks to everyone out there who's taken time to read my blog. It passed 100,000 views a couple of days ago which I think is quite incredible! Thanks everyone ...
The wedding of the year
We left Sotogrande on the 20th July to return to the UK to partake in and enjoy Andrew and Harriet's wedding in Somerset. We decided to drive to Santander and take the ferry rather than running the whole wy back home through France. The road ...
Festivities with the Duries...
Spent a fantastic 5 and a bit days at Kingshead house with Tom, Penny (Clare's uncle and auntie), Lucinda, Charlotte and Millie (clare's three cousins), John (Clare's grandpa), Mieko and Rosie (the two pooches) as well as the Walters, Haebichs and Eric. ...
Saturday 30 August
Saturday 30th August Summer seems to have arrived in England today! The only other nice weather they have had all summer was the first week of the school holidays in late July. It has rained a lot and has been dull and overcast ever since, ...
Whats Been Happening Since I Got Back
Well I've been back home for 3 weeks now and I've done basically nothing. It's been quite a strange feeling trying to readjust to life back home but it's getting better. For the first 2 weeks I couldn't get to sleep before 4am and as a result woke up at ...
Tuesday 16th September
As you may imagine we were a bit tired today having got to bed around midnight after all that driving. Today was a catch up day with all the washing etc. Steve was still hoping to get the tiling done in the new conservatory at Larkrise but they are still ...
Honey, I've left the kids!
Our plan was to leave the house all loaded up with dogs and baggage at 0700. Amazingly we made it and after checking and re-checking that we had everything we posted the house keys back through the letter box and departed on time. However 10 ...
They All Talk Like Philip!!
Made it to England! The flight seemed to fly by, largely because I slept for 5 of the 7 hours. I had no problems at passport control, even though the very presence of an authority figure made me feel that I had done something wrong. I spit out nervous ...
We're off (finally!)
OK, OK, so it's 3 in the morning and it's taken us 18 months to get this far - but we're finally on our way to the airport! How exciting! We've booked ourselves on a National Express coach, leaving Birmingham International, which will hopefully get us to ...
