Abbeyfield Guesthouse Cambridge

... steps. The outdoors is a typical farm yard, I suppose, with rambling bits of wood, wire, old tractor and park bench scattered around in a quaintly attractive mess.

The road is narrow and meandering, as is the stream at the bottom of the field, and when we attempted to watch some British television last night, it rambles along with everything else, going nowhere, but taking the scenic route to get there.


In other news, British roads are atrocious. They are ...

So after 6 months away and visiting 8 different countries, we have now arrived, reluctantly, back in England. Although its not as cold as we were expecting, which is a bonus!

We have had a fantastic time and visited some amazing places, and we are now hoping that reality doesn't hit us too hard!

Hope that you have enjoyed our blog and will probably see most of you shortly.

The last few weeks have been really manic while we've prepared to put our furniture into storage and get our property ready for letting. Thankfully, most of the hard work is completed and now we can concentrate on getting ready for our travels. It's difficult to believe that we leave in just under a week!

We fly into Delhi on Monday, arriving very early ...

Well since Amsterdam Josh and I have been staying in county Bedfordshire with my Aunty Sue. She lives in a country house, dated from the 1800's (and has the deeds to prove it!), with her dad - known as Grand dad to all) and her doggies, Molly and Buddy the bulldog.

So Friday we had a glorious sleep in, then headed to Milton Keynes for a couple of hours of retail ...

Well today was our last day in Amsterdam

A lovely sleep in this morning - owing part to the stone over from the previous night's events and also due to the grey skies and rain that have plagued us through Amsterdam. Packed all the bits and pieces up, left our bags with the hotel staff and off we wandered to the Heineken Experience Museum......

which wasn't open until 11am (note that for anyone wanting to visit!) - so another wonderful brekkie ...

... efficient and we can even forgive the grumpy ticket inspector on the train as that seems to be an int**national trait. The city is v**y well set up for tourists, wheth** intentional or not. The compact size makes it easy to see the sights, all the information boards and printed booklets are in sev**al languages and it felt v**y safe. The balance between rememb**ing the past and looking forwards to ...

... contact details for some fellow volunteers and I will find out where my placement is soon. Fingers crossed! Update: My placement is in Quang Ngai province, I'm very excited! I will be teaching English to all levels but it has only just been set up so I think I will be starting at quite a basic level. Next destination: Da Nang (via Singapore) on 28th July!

... expecting a small room at the back maybe but we were given the keys to an enormous suite at the front. A huge room with a double and a single and a tennis court in between! I loved the bathroom...all light and airy...tiles I just had to take a photo of and a bath with one end moulded to fit around the shower. We did not move out of the room all night and had nothing to eat except the biscuits as provided.

Our journey started straight after lectures on the Thursday, where we all chucked our bags into taxis and then walked round to the train station. We met up at 6pm and our train left at 6.45, which then headed into Kings Cross, London where we then walked over to Euston.

We head to Cambridge for a day trip before leaving the country. We visit many of the pretty colleges. Cambridge is definitely nicer than Oxford. Sebastian buys a cheap watch, and Fiona is upset because she can't find a bathroom. We listen to little boys singing in a church...they sound like girls.