Well it is just under 4 weeks till departure day. We have had the disappointment of the English tour being cancelled and the subsequent scramble to get booked on another tour. We ended up booking a eight day tour with another operator. The up side of this upheaval was that Jill's cousin Christine and husband Michael have invited us down to Hampshire to spend a few days with them. We had planned on seeing them at some stage of the tour and seeing as we had some extra days they kindly invited us to join them. They have been very helpful planning things for us to do, it should be great being shown around their part of the world we are all quite excited about this development. So barring any further eruptions from Icelandic Volcanoes we should be on our way in 25 days, then we can start blogging about all the highlights of our trip not just the planning.

Bye for now jjji