We went skating around the park again today. All the memories of ice skating started coming back to me and I started to feel I was getting the hang of it again. In the evening we met up with Andre...

Today was my parents last full day in London, so we headed out to complete the last few things on our to-see lists. Our first stop was the roof of One New Change so that my parents could see the v...

This morning we jumped in the car and drove off to explore Wiltshire and the Cotswolds. Our first stop was The Polly Tea Rooms in Marlborough. There were so many amazing cakes to choose from but ...

My parents arrived late last night, so after a nice sleep in, we picked up lunch from The Coffee Tree and headed in to town. I had a tuna salad sandwich and grenadine lemonade. We ate our lunch in...

Loraine was in town today so we took her to Soho's Secret Tearoom. We had tea, cakes and scones while listening to their awesome playlist of vintage records. After we picked up a box of parsnip f...

Lynsey got back to London today so we headed up to Queens Park to meet her and Louise for some late drinks in the sun. After watching funny videos back at Louise's we headed to the Alice House, wh...

Today was the start of the long weekend so everyone was happy and lazing around the Mews, especially the cats. In the afternoon we headed up to Queen's Park to laze with Louise in the park.

Today we had our interview with the American Embassy to find out if we'd be allowed to stay for six months. We weren't allowed to take our phones or any electronics and after we were herded through...

We're trying to tick the last remaining places off our London to-see list. Today we went for dim sum at Dim T near London Bridge. The view from the restaurant was lovely. We had steamed dumplings ...

Today we went to see the Wallace Collection which was the most amazing gallery. Each room was so decadent, filled with hundreds of pieces of art. It felt a lot like Versailles. Vivienne Westwood ho...

Today was the Sagen press day at Soho's Secret Tea Room. It really was secret as we had to go behind the bar in the Horse & Groom pub and upstairs to find it.

We got sandwiches from the Coffee Tree again for lunch today. This time I went with brie, tapenade and salad on sun dried tomato bread which was really tasty. In the evening we went to the Lexi, a...

Tom got us a Rover Rail pass today, which meant that we could take unlimited numbers of trains and explore the South Of England. They only cost £24 for all four of us. Our first stop was Portsmout...