We successfully managed to find our way around Heathrow airport, pick up a hire car and head away from London in the desired direction. What an achievement, I say!!!!
We headed towards Salisbury and Stonehenge ... only after we had nearly made it to Oxford ... but were turned off by the LONG traffic queues to get into Oxford. We turned around and headed the opposite direction ... preferring not to spend hours stuck in lines of traffic. Found a pub with B&B at Marlborough .. a lot more to this place than we first thought. Beautiful old buildings and thatched roofs. 
TIP: Best to get in early at Stonehenge to beat the thousands of tourists who flock there on a weekend. Think we made it just in time. Amazing to imagine how these HUGE rocks were put into place. Eerie feelings.
Then on to Sarum ... wishing we had the book with us. Have to finish reading it now.
More later ... struggle with this is too much. Sorry
MUCH later (we are in Edinburgh ... but I have to catch up on this journey). We have internet access here at Fiona's ... which is awesome ... but have also noticed internet cafes/kiosks everywhere throughout Edinburgh, as well as free wifi often. How different that is from England!!! The only internet access we could find outside London, was one cafe in York and a council library in Wrexham, Wales where we could read emails but not write to this blog ... BLOCKED!!! Even kiosks in London were so tightly controlled and locked down that it was frustrating. Over that now....
Visited the Roman Baths in Bath ... like an iceberg .... most of the story is underground and you don't realise it's there until you explore. Amazing, as is the buildings in the town. Sunday is an extremely busy 'tourist' day, but they don't seem to get going until mid-day ... and we were out of there about then. We had a ride on a narrow boat in mind for the afternoon so had to make it back to Devises in time. We followed that with a walk down the towpath past a series of 29 locks (well we didn't walk the whole length). This was amazing, so we watched a few boats traversing the locks into the evening ... which goes on for ages here. Nice coffe shop right there!!!
We explored another old castle on the way north .... Stokesay Castle. Then on to Wales. You gotta love all the sign posts ... written in English and Welsh. Didn't attempt to pronounce any of the Welsh words!!
York is beautiful. We walked the wall ... as you do. Spent 2 days exploring the fabulous streets of York, wishing Linda was here as our guide.
Headed north, over the moors, via Whitby ... a really quaint coastal township ... cold and blustery!!!
MUCH later (we are in Edinburgh ... but I have to catch up on this journey). We have internet access here at Fiona's ... which is awesome ... but have also noticed internet cafes/kiosks everywhere throughout Edinburgh, as well as free wifi often. How different that is from England!!! The only internet access we could find outside London, was one cafe in York and a council library in Wrexham, Wales where we could read emails but not write to this blog ... BLOCKED!!! Even kiosks in London were so tightly controlled and locked down that it was frustrating. Over that now....
Visited the Roman Baths in Bath ... like an iceberg .... most of the story is underground and you don't realise it's there until you explore. Amazing, as is the buildings in the town. Sunday is an extremely busy 'tourist' day, but they don't seem to get going until mid-day ... and we were out of there about then. We had a ride on a narrow boat in mind for the afternoon so had to make it back to Devises in time. We followed that with a walk down the towpath past a series of 29 locks (well we didn't walk the whole length). This was amazing, so we watched a few boats traversing the locks into the evening ... which goes on for ages here. Nice coffe shop right there!!!
We explored another old castle on the way north .... Stokesay Castle. Then on to Wales. You gotta love all the sign posts ... written in English and Welsh. Didn't attempt to pronounce any of the Welsh words!!
York is beautiful. We walked the wall ... as you do. Spent 2 days exploring the fabulous streets of York, wishing Linda was here as our guide.
Headed north, over the moors, via Whitby ... a really quaint coastal township ... cold and blustery!!!
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