Monthly Archives: May 2016

Day 8 – Sunday 29 May 2016 Another early start, 5.30am for a 6.45am departure, with a great breakfast in the grand ballroom. Today is overcast with a light haze, threatening rain as we drove through the Kentish countryside down … Continue reading →

Day 7 – Saturday 28 May 2016 Off to the Royal Horticultural Gardens Wisley this morning so up at 5.30am to pack bags & organise for a 7.45am departure after breakfast. The traffic wasn’t too bad out of London & … Continue reading →

Day 6 – Friday 27 May 2016 Chelsea Flower Show today, so again breakfast at 6.30am & on the bus by 7.20am. The bus had to battle with the morning London commute traffic & closed roads so we had to … Continue reading →

Day 5 – Thursday 26 May 2016 No more lazy starts, breakfast at 6.30am then a long slow walk to the British museum today, straight along Oxford Street, then left at Bloomsbury Street. We got there after only an hour … Continue reading →

Day 4 – Wednesday 25 May 2016 A very lazy 8am buffet breakfast to start, then off for a walk through Hyde Park and past the Serpentine Lake to the Victoria & Albert Museum. Along the way we passed some … Continue reading →

Day 3 – Tuesday 24 May 2016 Up at 5.30am, shower & we were first at the buffet when it opened at 6am. The buffet is huge & looks good with seating for hundreds of people. There was a good … Continue reading →

Day 2 – 23 May 2016 A 6.30am wake-up and a short 100m walk for a 7am check-in at the airport. A couple didn’t like their bulkhead seat allocation, I was fairly happy to change with them as there was … Continue reading →

Day 1 – 22 May 2016 A very pleasant start with James, Venetia & River taking us into town for our bus trip to Sydney. Young River is now reacting to us & is very cute, it was a little … Continue reading →