salisbury

friday found another 10000 steps for my feet - walked in and out of cambridge again this time had breakfast in a pub - pictures to be posted later

at lunchtime we bundled ourselves into the car and headed to the swan at stoford - a very nice pub accommodation stop over has a lovely beer garden next to a river with swans and ducks - had a restaurant tea before heading off to bed






on saturday we picked up gwen the builders mother and headed to lymington for a view of the sea a walk and yet another meal - we were yet again blessed with good weather and found icecream on our walk new forest icecream - ian had wild ginger wonderful



we dropped gwen off and then headed to matt and jeanettes place for a bbq tea somewhere i managed to acquire another 10000 steps all good when we are eating and drinking lots

back to the swan for the night and then another full english cooked breakfast yesterday morning
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back into the car so that we could pop into salisbury for a wander.frannie and i found new pedometers which hang from your neck will try them out and compare to my trouser one, off to the builders ex wife barbs new place in warminster for lunch

frannie and jim diverted their trip home via ealing to drop us off at the end of the tube so that we could travel to our hotel the roads behaved themselves and we made good time

another cute hotel wandered around found a local sainsbury to get breakfast stuff as isnt included ate at a nice italian restaurant - had a salad couldnt face anymore carbohydrates

frannie got home and marlo was out and about playing didnt come home til quite late and was surprised to see frannie and jim waiting for time - i'm not surprised as they have only been home about 2 nights in the past 2 weeks think he will forgive them so long as they feed him extra food

up this morning for a period of exploring london and then tonight our open air performance of hello dolly in regents park weather forecast is for drizzle this arvo but hopefully clear tonight - we are taking amanda - austin friends zoys girlfriend - she is living in the uk for a gap year, should be fun and is only a very short walk from our hotel room

back up to chesterfield by train tomorrow for a couple of nights then off to abu dhabi - our UK journey is coming to an end have had a wonderful time - had ians usual good uk weather, seen lots of places, caught up with cousins and second cousins and an aunt and uncle, met new relatives of jim - all good fun. will be back again in 2 years