So don't know where to start....

Well i guess i can start with, "We are back from France"!!

But i should probably start with the start of our trip.

Chris picked up the car on Monday and we managed to get out of the center of London and back to Bow with no even one wrong turn!!! my navigating skills were awesome!!

We said goodbye to james who was was sad to see his playmate go, they have been racing toy helicopters around the flat for days! That was untill James got his BEBE gun out and started to fire at the helicopters while they were flying. He got one and it flew into the curtains. two mins later it was back flying and irritating me while i watched telvision.

Monday we drove over the big toll bridge and out of london! Oh my god! center of the city was easy. Finding the motorway was a nightmare... not helped that we had a map of london and a map of the country that was not detailed enough to show the roads... we made it to Maidstone and the castle was closed. So we went on a tour of the 4 meter wide English village roads.

those of you that know how Troy from "Midsomer Murders" drives will understand the perils of the tiny roads! chris was so very amazing, i couldn;t even have walked down the roads with another car coming.

We popped into a post office i a little village and the lady told us where another castle "Hever Castle" was. This was about the most fantastic thing. A really old little castle. Fully decorated and blah blah blah... pictures will follow at a later date. (this is a dorm computer in a hostel and we can't connect the cammera.)

We then camped at Pine Lodge, (irritating children.) THEY SHOULD BE SUPERVISED IN THE TOILETS!!! a group of four siblings (german with no english) spent about 20 mins cleaning their teeth running up and down all the 8 sinks spitting into each one in turn!! they didn't understand and thought it was a game to make we wait as long as i could. Igave up and had a shower and they were still scrubbing away when i got out! how can you clean you teath for that long.

anyway next day we went off to Leeds Castle, Which i suggest you look up on line, as it was one of the most beautiful places i have ever been to. There was even a maze which in the middle led to an underground tunnel that led you through waterfalls and caves to get out the otherside.

(running out of my 30 mins credit on computer)

we then drove to Dover and went to Dover castle.

we went into the old WWII tunnels and the old castle. The view from the top of the cliffs was perfect.

we camped again and went to sleep early in preparation for our trip to FRANCE>

we went to Calais yesterday which was great. I got to talk in French. We had baked Brie in a pub and he chatted away because i spoke to him in French. some other git comes in and askes a question in another language, and he didn;t even look at them shouting "non" "non"

I had to call a taxi to get us to the dock on the way back, so i went into a pub and asked to guy to call one... they were all smiling and helpful and we were chatting away about wine (the bar tender had just corked a bottle) They understood eventually.

Taxi came (poor chris didn't understand a word except rugby, kangaroo and australia) but we talked for the entire trip and he said he could understand me very well. (good practice for Paris in a month.)

Now we are in Portsmouth South England at a hostel about to get food.

have about 4mins left on credit, need to read email.

will update with more info later... going towards Plymouth tomorrow!

byeeeeeeeeeeeee