Bound for Ireland

This is wollerton Hall, a very stately mansion near my father in laws. There are free roaming deer on the grounds and the girls were intrigued by the mole holes in the ground.

The mansion has some rooms done up like it would have been when the family resided there and the rest of it is a museum of the most unlikely artifacts from semi precious stones to stuffed animals. Now of course animal lovers would not be happy about this but these were done in the days waaaaaaaay before animal rights and it does give one the opportunity to see some animals up close.

We drove from Nottingham to Holyhead in Wales to catch the ferry to Dublin.

Had a chuckle when we saw this on the ferry.... made me feel so much safer lol

This was our first view of Ireland from the Ferry

Of course we saw many white swans as we travelled, I love our black swans but the white swans are very beautiful too.

In search of the sheriff of nottingham

No trip to London is complete without a visit to Harrods!


This was the price of a nice piece of Salmon... 95 quid!!! eeeekkkk!


We left London and drove up to visit the fisherman's dad in Nottingham. We visited the castle and found the gardens to be in bloom with all the lovely spring flowers, I don't know what this one is but it caught my eye.

As usual the castle was decorated with gargoyles and other concrete beasties.

The oldest pub in England is here in Nottingham, it has small doors and low ceilings as they weren't very big people back in the olden days!


I must add that it is the coldest day ever recorded here in Melbourne in May, there has been snow up in the Alps (nearly 20cm in Falls creek) ski season could be massive this year!! We had snow up in the Dandenongs which is only about 45min drive from here..... my friend just said its very cold, to which I replied... cold enough to snow!! LOL