Bear Hotel Chippenham

... there now! It's a beautiful village where there are almost no new buildings. The main street is the main street of Meryton in the BBC's version of Pride and Prejudice. The town was also the twon where a series called Cranford was shot. Not sure how many people will have seen it in Australia, but it's a great series if you like period dramas. Several of the buildings have also been used as exteriors in the Harry Potter films, for example, the house where ...

... and the vaults afterward. The Bath Abbey was spectacular, and the Bath Abbey Heritage Vaults were quite interesting, too – highlighting 1,600 years of religious history in England!

Since the sugar high was wearing out after all that touring, we decided to go to the local Garfunkel’s for lunch. After a long lunch, more visiting, and a quick walk along the river (still down pouring!), we said goodbye to our good friends and grabbed the train “ ...

Well 7 weeks to GO!!!!


June is still busy buying clothes can't keep her out the shops. We are busy trying to set up all the systems we need in place and staff what they need to do in our absence.

Great finding so many people interested in what we will be doing and where we are travelling to.

Just want to get Junes problem sorted at the hospital they are messing us about. Got heavy with them today.

Watch out for the next update.

What an arrival

Having board the easy jet flight we were told that the wind was blowing at 50 MPH in bristol well whats new its bristol we arrive 15 minuites late after a pretty bumpy decent but smooth landing at Bristol airport

Welcome to wind and rain as the door open follow by a gale blowing accross the runway

... breakfast of Full English for John and Scrambled Eggs with Smoked Salmon for Jane, fortified us for the next leg of the car trip, this time to the Midlands.

Once the Sat Nav (aka "The *****") settled down we discovered we had only gone in a 50km circle twice and after a 5 hour ramble through the English countryside along the A30 and M5, we arrived at Tetlbury, a charming village in the Cotswalds ...

... a couple of jobs, ski resort jobs, retail.. something a bit different to what I do. I did also apply for some computer jobs as well just to see how I go.. As yet nothing!! I'm just wondering if they disregard me because I haven't got my national insurance no yet.. ah well it should be here soon. I'm a bit miffed actually because some of the applications took a bit of time to do and they don't even have the curtesy to even acknowledge your application.

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After Stonehenge, we started driving towards Bath which is a couple of hours away, so the driver gave us a bit of a tour on the way there. We saw things like the "worlds smallest prison", and a horse scraped into the side of a hill exposing white soil? beneath the grass. Apparently it was put there to signify if you were in a certain kingdom or not (forget the king's name of that area). We also learned that the Red Lion Pub is the most ...

It feels very surreal to have made it all the way back to Wiltshire. To think I have been walking the last four months and have reached home, 992 miles(£857.20 now raised, and climbing, thankyou). It seems that the last couple of weeks has just flown by, one day I had just come off the Pennine Way and now I am Wiltshire!! I have met up with friends which is nice. I am staying with Elaine & Ron and their Bassett Hounds Amber, Freddie and ...

... enjoyed walking around this old religious site and thought to myself that I much prefer to live with roman style buildings instad of the ugly city buildings we're so used to. but then again I spent think the opposite if this did come true. Stonehenge has always captured my imagination since I was a child. I imagined druids, wizards and all things fantasy would come to this site and do secret rites or rituals. So I was ...

I end up on a bus with 25 women from Vietnam. The trip is somewhat taxing and suddenly it turns out that my motion sickness is back. I get some pill from one of the passengers, and by the time we reach Stonehenge I begin to feel alive again.

Stonehenge is this pile of megalitic rocks brought from Wales by the Celts, although it's just one of the countless theories about this place. It is located on a vast plain in the middle of ...