Ashurst Lodge Hotel Torquay

I know it is amazing... like how did they erect these things 3000 years ago?

I can't tell you anything you already didn't know about this place I'm afraid, except that you get just as close from outside the perimeter fence as you do if you pay the entry fee so why pay?

... former glory. Such a shame - lucky I don't have to hunt out the ones in the UK, I can just see them on the continent in a few weeks. :)

There is a nice gated entry to the cathederal gounds. I particulary like the sheep and the boot hang above the shops next door to show the illiterates what they sell. Now I konw where to get my sheeps boots ;-)

Across the road is a tudor style house, the builder must of been drunk when laying the floor for the second story.

... streets away from the centre of town. We parked out the front of an old peoples home and the old woman in the nearest room to our van was none too happy with our presence...pacing up and down by her window for over an hour on the phone whinging to god knows who... but hey what could she do it was sunday night!! We sat there drinking wine waving to her. She was not impressed and eventually closed her curtains and left us in peace.

Last night was a fitfull nights sleep. I guess all the last minute packing and thing to do were running through our minds.

We were out of bed before 7am... so much for being on holidays. Cleaning the flat one last time, and filling scooby with all the things we probably don't need.

9.15 and we're off to our very accomodating friends to drop off bags for the summer phase of our trip to be picked ...

On Monday morning we checked out and then went to Venice Beach and Santa Monica where we shopped some more. We then took the car back and went to the airport. The flight left at 17:35 and was just over 9 hours. We arrived home yesterday at around 11:20am UK time.

Packing is just about all done, two big boxes are posted home, too much to get in our bags. They will join the other half dozen or so in the Boards garage sent from America.

Tomorrow, Saturday we board at at 10.05 pm for our 12 hour flight to Singapore from terminal 4 at Heathrow for a few days there to break an otherwise 24 hour journey home. Arrive Sydney on the 8th Oct.

As our usual ...

... more interesting so I did the castle on my own. First up was the bowman and the ratcatcher. Rat catcher throws his rats in the air for the bowman to practise his accuracy on a moving target. Out came my camcorder to see how close he could get and what!! first arrow hits the rat about 4 metres in the air. Celebrations as if they had just scored the winner at Wembly in time added. Not sure they had ecer ...

... I believe that even though my mother grew up close by she never visited them once!! Probably a bit like me and local attractions.

We took a couple of meer cat shots to send back to Tash!! It was good to catch up with them again but time just went too fast and they had to catch the bus back to London.

... to be near here is that I was going to take a ferry to St. Malo, in France, and the ferry departed from one of the ports near here. In Edinburgh, when I was planning my trip "out" of the UK, I realized that that ferry ride was quite long and would take a whole day out of the little time I had left to return to Frankfurt and I would also be further from Paris. So I figured the best place to grab a ferry was in Poole and head to Cherbourg ...

... this interview format is taking up too much space, and you'd just pick my answers to pieces anyway. GE: Fair point. Ok well thanks for taking the time to answer my questions and delighting my readers with your heartfelt comments. ME: You mean my readers. GE: Whatever. I think that a lot of people go away with this preconceived notion that if you go travelling for any length of time you will 'find yourself'. It's not until you're out there that you realise that you're not exactly ...