Friday 28th June 2013

Today it was the day we set out to see the island and of course drive the T T circuit witch is a great drive and most of it is on open road only time you have to slow down is when you come to the villages the when we got to Ballaugh after a walk around the new church cemetery and found nothing Val found Steve sitting in his car out of the rain he was cutting the grass but the poor man had no escape after a while he had to give her a name of the parish warden we had a feeling this may lead to something well all it proved was this is where the Corlett clan came from.

So it was back down the road to the Ballaugh bridge and the Raven Hotel that everyone knows or should known and a pint of Guinness.

Then on to Ramsay then back to Douglas via the coast tomorrow it is the 15 00 ferry back to Liverpool.

Len and Val

  Friday 28th June 2013

  After the train ride from London to Liverpool then the boat ride on the big cat it was a couple of pints of Guinness it was off to bed.

The car was waiting for us at the door so Thursday it was a short drive around town we then found the Manx museum where we spent quiet some time on the family tree thought we were getting somewhere until we had a good look at it and it was the wrong William Corlett.

then went for a drive to Castletown  and St Marys in the south of the island got back to the hotel about 7 00 o'clock  it was Mexican night 20 pound for two with two side serve's and two main courses and two beers that was day one on the isle of man.

Len and Val

    Monday 24 June 2013

Today Barbara Peter Val well I had to go too.
To Greenwich with a boat ride down the Thames which was a good ride after a look through the maritime museum a couple of pints in the local pub with a feed of chips and garlic bread got back to the hotel at 18 00 and had a early night
Len and Val

 
Sunday 23rd June 2013

Now we are in England and with Wi-Fi should be ok now after breakfast it was a bus ride around old London town with a stop at Tower Bridge.
Then on to the changing of the guards before those who did not wanted to go back to the hotel were dropped off in the west end.
where Peter Barbara Val and I had a good feed of fish and chips before we made our way back to our hotel via the underground finished of the night with a couple of beer cheese and biscuits sorry there are no photos something has gone wrong and I can't load them.

Thursday 20th June 2013

Today we left Koblenz for Cologne to one of Germany's oldest cites

The Cologne Cathedral

 

Then it was on to Amsterdam and then to Brussels  and onto the Euro Stat for London nowwe are here the blog we be published daily

Len and Val

 

 

Wednesday 19th June 2013

Today just after breakfast we dock at Rudesheim and joined the Winzerexpress  a mini train ride to Siegfried's Mechanical Music Instrument Museum

                                                           Just one of the exhibits.

     

Here we are at the look out over Koblenz.

The view of Koblenz with its vineyards

 

Then it was back to the boat for the ride down the Rhine River through the spectacular Rhine Gorge past the infamous Lorelei Rock and to Koblenz.

The reason there has not been any thing on our blog the Wi-Fi was not working on the boat

Len and Val

  

 

                          

   Monday 17th June 2013

     Today we visited Wurzburg with is vineyard for a walking tour and visited the Bishops Residents.
Then in the afternoon it was a visit to the old town of Rothenburg the only town in Europe with its old city walls intact.

                                               Just sampling some good German Sausage

                                                 The sausage was bloody good.

                                        But it had to be washed down with a good ale.

Tuesday 18th June 2013

This morning we cruise to Wertheim know for its glass works, then back on the boat and headed for Miltenberg a old Bavarian town with some of the oldest \buildings in Europe had a little technical problem the ATM took my card and would not give it back and the bank staff were on lunch and would not come back till 14 00 hrs and as they had to come down from the second floor it would be 5 or 10 past before I would get it and we were to sail at 14 00 hrs and a good 15 minute walk back to the boat so it was up to Herbert to fix it which he did.

Len and Val