We always knew that we were going to be celebrating with Leo’s family, but what we didn’t realise is just how much we would be...

No time for a lay-in this morning as our first port of call was breakfast with Leo’s Dad! Fried eggs, bacon, lamb and chicken sausages...

We had a reasonable night! Ok, we were awake at 2 and not able to get back to sleep, so we had a cup of tea, laid and read until we were...

It is a cold January afternoon when we leave home! Michael has been in Asia for over a week now. Ali and John are now in Kuala Lumpur,...

We now consider ourselves to be experts when it comes to supporting our children in their various athletic exploits, and some 8...

Our day started with a trip to the DDR museum, along with David. Albeit a small museum it told an interesting story of Berlin and life...

The hotel name Lyskirchen should have given us a clue, but maybe it was best that it hadn’t, so at 7a.m we were woken by Church bells,...

We woke up to another even greyer morning and evidence of overnight rain. Never mind, there is more of Brussels we want to see so...

Up with the larks, across Euston Road to St Pancras station ready to get the 8.55 Eurostar to take us to Brussels. Sadly it was a bit too...

It seemed like a good start to the day. Blue sky, sunshine, lovely breakfast, and then we were informed that an unknown person was...

Having agreed to meet at 8.30 for breakfast there was no sign of David and Alex. A quick tap on the door revealed the reason - they were...

Sadly we had to say goodbye to Helen this morning so that left only 4 of us and it felt a bit strange. We packed up and left our villa...

There were some people who had to be woken this morning!!! Anna, Julie and Andrew were heading back to the airport after lunch and we...

Not content with being here for just the half iron man we have a birthday to celebrate too. It started with getting up early to get...

The reason why we are all out here. Apparently the worlds largest half iron man with 3,800 participants registered. We understand that...

Michael arrived at 1.30 a.m without any problems with the taxi finding the location. I think he, David and Alex might have had a bit of a...