The Bulldogs are Cheating

Thankfully my train back to London wasn’t leaving until early afternoon so after checking out and storing the gigantobag I headed to the Scottish National Museum which turned out to be startlingly near to my hostel when I’d passed it the day before. I mostly skimmed their natural history and world cultures section (though I [...]

Edinburgh itself entranced me immediately. The train station is smack dab in the middle of the city and I emerged practically in the shadow of the castle. To be fair of course pretty much anything in downtown Edinburgh is loomed over by the castle, the mount is that imposing. I eventually found my way to [...]

  The last couple days with the parents were eventful to say the least. Our Cotswolds B&B was fantastic given how randomly we’d chosen it and the region itself was quite pretty. Lots of little villages with cute shops and restaurants and supposedly great antiquing. I stayed out of the antique shops though, sure I’d [...]

Oof, I’ve fallen quite behind in the old travelogue. Mostly this is because of a barrage of quite busy days combined with questionable or non-existent internet. Overall we’ve been having a blast and have ended up seeing a lot more of the country than I’d really expected to. Continuing on from the previous post…   [...]

We ended up staying an extra day in the New Forest since the B&B had an opening for the next day and it was so nice. The next morning we took a trip down to Bournemouth to first stock up on some goodies for the room and the car before heading to the seaside. Summer [...]

  Our last day of this stay in London was a bit short as we had to be at Gatwick to pick up our rental car in the afternoon. We ended up taking a nice long walk up into Kensington and across Kensington Gardens/Hyde Park. London continued with its hot sun/cloud and cold wind switches [...]

So here I sit, desperately trying to think of anything I might have missed packing. I rather annoyingly lost a few pieces of kit and had to replace them last minute with a trip to the dreaded Walmart last night. The bag is tighter and lighter this time, lessons learned from the last trip and all [...]

With the Antipodean Adventure complete I settled back into Winnipeg fairly happily. Arriving back just before the May long weekend in Canada meant relaxed times all around. After a really (really) lazy week I attended the fantastic U2 360 show here. All of this was of course a lead up to the real reason I [...]