Cornwall and Plymouth

Saturday 12th – Sunday 13th September 2020 A short but very packed and fun weekend away where we unexpectedly ticked Cornwall off the list of places to visit! Day 1 After a not early at all start with the sun shining, roof down and tunes on, we headed off to Read more

Wales

Saturday 18th – Sunday 19th July 2020 Our first night away in about 5 months and we are off to Wales to enjoy Vikki’s belated birthday Velocity 2 zip wire present. After weeks and weeks of beautiful weather the forecast showed one day of terrible weather would perfectly land on Read more

Lockdown finally eases

Friday 3rd July – Sunday 5th July 2020 After the longest and most boring 4 months thanks to Coronavirus COVID-19 the UK lockdown finally began easing. Friday night was spent very pleasantly having a socially distant catch up with Debs and Matt, however due to the pouring rain we couldn’t Read more

Venice

Friday 31st January – Sunday 2nd February Day 1 Having checked and double checked that we had everything we set off to Gatwick for our first foreign adventure of 2020…halfway to the airport Steve realised while he’d remembered to bring his coat and hat to mine he ‘d left them Read more

Britain’s Got Talent

Saturday 18th January 2020 Unsure of whether we’d actually make it into the audience, we headed into London to see if we could swap our e-ticket for a real one. Organised chaos is putting it politely, no arrival time was actually given and we were told the tickets were handed Read more

New Year & Southsea

Wednesday 1st January 2020 A fun evening with friends, children, sparklers, homemade pizza, dice rolling sweetie games and lots of laughs to finish off 2019 and bring in the new year. We headed off to Southsea beach for the afternoon to blow away the cobwebs (and keep us awake after Read more

Stratford-Upon-Avon

Saturday 21st – Sunday 22nd December Our last road trip of 2019 was for a very nice, last minute, trip to visit Mark, Irina and the girls. We got there after a slight detour where the maps took us to a random location about 5miles outside of Stratford-Upon-Avon and with Read more

Gibraltar & Malaga

Friday 25th October – Monday 28th October Day 1 As we had such an early flight out we decided to book hotel at Gatwick so headed off down there Friday evening, after a takeaway. An uneventful drive, a short tour of the car park (thanks to Vikki getting the wrong Read more

First weekend with the MX5

Saturday 28th September 2019 We have our new car – woohoo! Steve braved the passenger seat and Vikki drove – a nervous start but no bumps, scratches, stalling, shouting or arguments so I would class it a success!  Salisbury Given the awful weather we were super lucky to have sun Read more

Beaulieu

Sunday 15th September 2019 In advance of getting our MX5 we headed to Beaulieu to the MX5 Show and Shine exhibition.  Lots and lots of MX5s of all ages and colours were on display, Steve had hoped to get some good alteration ideas but turns out most were uncustomised and Read more