Last Sunday in UK

Sunday 24 June 2012   - Last weekend in England

Day 72 and 87 to go

Another Sunday, unfortunately it is our last one here in England. We are now down to our last few days before we head on to the continent.

We dragged ourselves out of bed after 9am and had breakfast while watching the TV. I got onto the Internet and started doing some searching for package senders as we have plenty to send home AGAIN! I also began working out where we head to next, making sure we had some idea of where our hotel is in Amsterdam and how we will get there on the pubic transport. With a bit of a heads up we shouldn’t go into meltdown when we arrive.

Chell was still in the books this morning but by 11.30 he was all done and shortly after Mary arrived. It had been raining quite hard bit it cleared by lunchtime. We got ourselves ready and then we all got in Mary’s car and drove to Maisie’s. We only stopped briefly before getting back in the car and driving to The Lytton Arms for lunch. We found our table ordered drinks and then checked the menu. The Sunday roast looked good so that is what Paul and I went for along with mussels and whitebait for entrée. The meals were delicious. It was a very relaxed afternoon.

When we were all done we returned to the car and drove down the road to the back of Knebworth where there were many deer in the paddock.  We stopped and I took some pics. Some of the male bucks had massive antlers.

We took the windy back roads through the country side to Maisie’s where we stopped for a quick cuppa before heading on to Chell’s via a few of the old homes of Paul and Chell’s relatives.

When we got in Mary and I watched the movie “27 Dresses“ while Paul and Chell worked on Mary’s car and then entertained Chell’s neighbour’s children who had wandered across looking for chocolate. The boys kept them entertained in the garden looking for bugs. Shortly after their Dad came looking for them.

The boys joined us watching the last part of the movie, much to their delight, before we turned on the England v Italy ¼ final. The first half was not particularly entertaining and when it was done Mary decided to head home. We said our goodbyes before she was on the road.

I came in and made up some salad and egg sandwiches for dinner that we ate while watching the second half. Again there was nothing particularly exciting and it went through to full time with no score.

With 30 min of extra time it became a bit more desperate with Italy looking the better team having a goal disallowed for offside. However, it finished with no score and went on to penalties. Italy faltered early but recovered and took it 3 to 4. 
With the soccer finished we called it a night.