Rome - 10th June

Left Pompeii today for Rome via Naples on the train. Navigated without any problems even with our limited Italian language and arrived in Rome in time for gelati!

Vesuvius - 9th June

Climbed Mt Vesuvius today! No earthquakes along the way and the boys worked up a good appetite for pasta!

Pompeii - 8th June

We have arrived safely in Italy now and spent today exploring the ruins at Pompeii.


Hot weather over here so we have all been enjoying some gelati already!







- The Odeon


 Tarsha in the Bakers shop -





- One of the poor victims of the Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD

Travels from Weybridge - 4th & 5th June

Spent the last couple of days touring a few local sites from our base in Weybridge including a visit to one of our old veterinary practice towns - Guildford in Surrey.



- Waverley Abbey

             Arundel Castle -

- The white cliffs of the southern coast of England on a typical English summer day.

Queen's Jubilee Flotilla - 3rd June

The Queen's Jubilee Flotilla in London - we joined one million others to celebrate the Queen's diamond jubilee, 60 years after her coronation in 1952.





We got a great viewing spot and some awesome photos!







The kiwi Commonwealth representatives even joined in singing "God Save the Queen" and "Rule Brittania" !!!

Brooklands + Mercedes World - 2nd June

Boys trip out to the Brooklands Car and Plane Museum and Mercedes World today while the girls went shopping.  Saw heaps of cool boy stuff including Ayrton Senna's F1 racing car, a Harrier Jet, WWII Hurricane and Wellington Bomber, and a tour through one of the last surviving Concordes!


- Flying the Sultan of Oman's Vickers

 Riding a World War II bomb!



- Mercedes 1954 Gullwing


Taking a Mercedes for a simulated drive!

Stonehenge - 1st June

We have left Hotel Chisholm and moved down to Weybridge - staying with our old friends Paul and Tracy Campbell who we first met in Peru!




Borrowed their car today and took the boys on a day trip out to Stonehenge.