We have been busy all of this week, travelling around the tourist sites, There would have been another post before this but the computer went on the blink for some reason, and I had to restore it to factory defaults and start again. Fortunately
nothing was lost as i had backed up the important files, (thats got to be a first). We started off our touristy bits with a trip to Oxford , then to Blenheim Palace, the Duke of Marlborough's stately pile. Thursday we drove around the Cotswolds to Burford, Shipton Under Wychwood, Stow on the Wold, Bourton On The Water, and then on to Gloucester. With sundry other pretty places in between. The first picture is of part of an Oxford College, not sure which one, think it might be Keeble.

Crooked House at Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire.




More pictures if you are interested are on facebook. If you cant see them email me at ageingkiwigeek@gmail and I will add you to friends.

The First Five Days

Well we finally arrived after what seemed an interminable journey. I certainly won't fly with Royal Brunei on this route again. The crew were great, the food disgusting, and even worse if you are vegetarian. The killer is two stops , Brunei and Dubai, although they were not long stops they were tiring.

Everything went well with Mum's memorial service. Which has finally brought closure. We had a great family get together afterwards, when Sinead could meet most of her Brit relatives for the first time.

This first post has been delayed because on day two I sat on the netbook and cracked the screen. It took until the jet lag wore off to realise that I could plug the monitor from my sisters computer into the netbook,et voila!

Weather has lived up to Kiwi expectations and it has pissed down for 3and a half of the first five days. Although we understand the weather has hardly been spring like in NZ.

Chris and Paul fly of to Phuket and the Adelaide on Sunday. On Monday we will start the touristy bit and hopefully will have a load of photos to post.

Alan