We're spending the next two days and the remainder of our trip in London. We arrived two nights ago via Heathrow and took the rail direct to our hotel; it's amazing how effecient and effective the entire rail system is. We managed to get from the airport to the door of our hotel with 2 trains (Heathrow Express and the Tube) in about 25 minutes.

We're staying in Notting Hill, which is west of downtown, and north of Hyde park. Our first day we did the bus tour, went to the Tower of London, and the London Eye - a gigantic ferris wheel as part of the exhibition on the south side of the river.

At night we went on a walking tour with some old pubs and ghost stories.

Today we went to the National History Museum / Science Museum (waaaaay too may kids!), then the Imperial War Museum, and Parliament/Big Ben/Westminster Abbey.

Vacation is starting to blur just a little - might be time to come home. See you soon.

Words we've made up...

- blung: to have had bling and to have lost it.
- snickles: a magic candy which is a combination of Snickers and Skittles.
- azine: Andrea pulled this out of the dictionary to cheat her way into finishing Scrabble (she still came in dead last though)

Beers we've had (that we remember)...
- Affligem
- Leffe Brune
- Chimay Blue
- Tennents
- Belhaven
- Caledonian 70
- Caledonian 80
- Scrumpy Jacks Cider
- Staropramen
- Kronenberg Blanc
- Sherlock Holmes
- Olde Speckled Hen
- Badger

We've spent the last two days in Edinburgh. It's been reasonably rainy but we did get out to see a few sights.

We've spend the last 3 days in north-east Scotland with relatives - Ellen and Henry Bruce. They have a beautiful house about near a small town called Turriff which we toured out from each day.

Yesterday was our "bonus" day. The idea was that we were going to take our rented Renault Twingo, and visit as many countries as possible. First you have to meet the Twingo... golfcart that goes 140 km/h... It took us two days to figure out how to put it in reverse.

Well we spent the last two days in Epernay and just travelled from there via car to Bastogne, Belgium.

Anyway, our last day in Paris we visited the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, and did some night tours.

Somehow Andrea managed to take the same number of pictures today as yesterday! 165! Thankfully we won't post anywhere near that many.

We made it... no thanks to London Heathrow... other than that and a little miscommuncation on the train we arrived alright.