Saturday - eve of road trip

It's Saturday morning and Jo and I have just been to the Doctor's to join the myriad of other grey hairs to get our annual flu jabs. They say that Australia has had a very bad winter with flu and apparently we here in the UK monitor the strains that are found in the southern hemisphere and these are built in to the vaccinations.

Tomorrow morning, Jo and I start our UK road trip. Tomorrow it's Liverpool, then Winchester on Monday, Dover on Tuesday, followed by nights in Broxbourne, London (2), Broxbourne again and then Chester on the way home. We enjoyed our USA road trip this year - apart from the bug we picked up - and hopefully this one will go well too. It's a blink and you'll miss it trip, so we have to steel ourselves to get as much out of the brief visits as we can.

When we're in London, we're going to see the musical 42nd Street on Thursday night, then the Pink Floyd exhibition on Friday morning, after which we meet up with Anne and Leslie Mason for dinner at Theo Randall at the Intercontinental. Who he, you ask? Well, I'd never heard of him either but Anne is a bit of a gourmet diner and her brother Tom, a wine expert, travels the world and knows all the best restaurants and chefs and no doubt she took this recommendation from him.

Tom is the main reason we're going to London - it's his first year at running his own wine fair, but he was formerly a member of the Wine Gang and we used to go their Edinburgh fairs every year, but he's broken away from them and is doing his own thing now. He's already held one event in Glasgow and this is his second fair - https://festival-of-wine.com/london-wine-festival/

I've now booked just about everything for our Australian trip - including the overnight stays in our Motorhome on our drive from Melbourne to Adelaide on the Great Ocean Road. We're staying at 3 different Big 4 holiday parks - 2 nights each at Apollo Bay, Port Fairy and Robe. We've got our visas approved as well - just 4 months to wait now.

Kelly went to look at the accommodation we've booked in Adelaide and sent a couple of photos from different angles:

Kelly also sent us a cute photo of the boys taking their milk:

The USA big flights are organised as is the week on Maui, but we've still to book domestic flights - Denver-Medford and Medford-Maui returns. I have however booked us in to an airport hotel in Denver so we can rest then fly to Oregon the morning after our international flight.

I'm wearing my Grants Pass Cavemen Football t-shirt today. I'm supposed to wear it on Cade's match days - Fridays, but I'll claim that, with the time difference, it was still Friday in Oregon when I got dressed this morning. It didn't help anyway as, after 4 straight wins, the Cavemen lost their second match in a row yesterday. What's going on?