The Comet

Ah the countryside. After 10 weeks of basically being in cities, followed by 5 days of London city madness, we have escaped to the great outdoors courtesy of our bright orange spaceship, Comet.

Meet Comet, our house and wheels.

London was excellent. We went primarily to see bro-in-law Darian do the London marathon, which he did much to our admiration cos by golly it looked hard. So we got to hang out with him and my big sister Jane for longer than nearly ever. We managed to book rooms not only in the same hotel but three doors apart which was quite incredible, and made for a fun time. And as a bonus we also got to see my friend Katrina who I hadn't seen for years, so it was a good sociable time.

Run, Forest, run.

We charged through the National gallery but passed up the others, had perfect weather for a river side stroll watching the buskers, went shopping unsuccessfully, wandered St James' park, photographed Westminster and Big Ben, remembered the thrills of rushing along the underground, ate delicious Indian food, Mexican, English breakfasts, bad coffee, expensive and disappointing beer, and generally spent shit loads.

No Kews here ha ha ha ha ha

Best bit may have been our trip to Kew gardens. Another perfect day of sunshine and warmth (very nearly shorts weather) with spring flowers, green green grass and stupendous glasshouses.

Springy

The we bade farewell to busy, crazy, dirty London Town and hit the road. First stop, the New Forest, with lots of wandering wild ponies, lovely villages and streams, and greenness.

Then on to Dartmoor, down through Cornwall to Land's End, and up along the coast to Exmoor forest where we are now.

One drawback of being in the Comet (that's the van's official name by the way - it's written on the side) is we are on mobile broadband, not wifi, so blogging will be impacted (hence the ages since the last). The campground we are in now has wifi so that explains this post.

And I can't be bothered to type more so I'll put on lots of pictures and let them do the work.