Today, the weather is better. What a relief! We’re driving westbound and will spend two nights in Gloucester on the western edge of the Cotswolds, an especially beautiful area near the border with Wales. We enjoy driving through the forests, along lush meadows with properly round sheep on them. The road takes us over hills and past gnarly trees and grey stone houses, typical for [Weiterlesen]

We meet Caroline in Guildford for a mid-morning snack. There’s a new branch of our favourite Hummingbird Bakery that needs to be tested. Sitting in a café having a cupcake is also the best you can do as it pours down with rain. Gabi has a red velvet cupcake, Caroline a glazed brownie, and I go for a raspberry cheesecake brownie. Wow, that’s rich!! We [Weiterlesen]

Today, Caroline is taking us to Costco. That’s a members only hypermarket with a huge variety of goods on offer. And it’s HUGE!!! There are big screen TVs, clothes, barbeques, croissants by the dozen, boxes with 4 dozen eggs, 1.3 kg sliced ham packs, and there’s even a jacuzzi waiting for a new owner. The huge racks remind us of Ikea. And so does the [Weiterlesen]

Today, we meet Caroline, Peter and Jack at Bluewater shopping centre. We like to spend one day here during each of our holidays to the UK. As always, we begin at the Lego store. They have a lot of new Lego sets on display, as Doctor Strange’s sanctum sanctorum and the Hulkbuster from the new Avengers “Infinity War” movie. Or the ship in the bottle [Weiterlesen]

We start off at 10.30am and enjoy the beautiful weather. It’s sunny and warm, but not too warm to spend the day in the car. We make good progress and cross the border with France one hour after our departure. We take it a bit slower than other times and arrive at the Eurotunnel terminal at half past six. Only to learn that the train [Weiterlesen]