Since we moved into our caravan we don’t watch TV any more. We’ve got a Freeview card for our laptop, but it just seems like a faff setting it up - at least, compared to just flicking on a box in the corner of the room. Plus reception ain’t great in a lot of caravan sites we’ve stayed at.

I can’t say either of us really miss it. I quite fancied watching Rome on BBC1, but we can just rent the DVD from Blockbuster in a few months time. It’s a cliche, but quite surprising how much more time there is in the day when you don’t spend the evening in front of the gogglebox.

Anyway, it means that I’m getting back into games (especially on our Gameboy and DS) and reading books. We thought we’d do a few reviews on this site for books, games, films, etc - hey, what else are we going to do with our time? :)

So here’s my first book review - Prey by Michael Crichton.

We have made it to Canterbury in Kent, the county known as ‘The Garden of England’ for its beautiful flowers, landscaped gardens and orchards. The journey down was uneventful and i enjoyed looking out at the passing countryside. We are here for 2 weeks visiting our friend Jill.

My friend Ruth has also come to stay for the weekend so it’s nice for us all to catch up. It is Ruths first time in Canterbury and a caravan so we are going to show her what fun it is.

During our walk around Canterbury on this glorious sunday morning we visited the beautiful Canterbury Cathedral and wandered round the ancient walls of this picturesque city.

This sight-seeing malarkey is tiring!

The car and caravan combo

Yes, at last we have finally set off on our travels - hurrah! We left Clay Cross in Chesterfield this morning and headed down to Peterborough to visit Rachels family and Jenny.

With the aid of Pete’s new toy - a GPS - we had a pleasant diversion through Nottingham city centre whilst towing the caravan, during a busy friday afternoon. Pete wasn’t best pleased but he did a grand job of getting us through it.

Our campsite didn’t have the greatest sign in the world so after 3 attempts we finally managed to pull into the correct driveway and pitch up for the evening.

After a yummy tea of sausages and waffles followed by apple pie and custard (thanks to Nanny for that) we all sat round and looked at photos of our recent trip to India. Everyone was pleased to see the Tree Of Life building works in steady progress as well as commenting on how well - and happy - Rachel looked.

Thought it’d be nice to have a picture of us up here! This was taken on the roof of Rachel’s (unfinished) house in India.

We’re back from our two-week trip to India - we were visiting our friend Rachel and her new charity The Tree Of Life For Animals. It’s already doing good work out there, treating many of the thousands of sick animals that live on the streets.

The blog software we’re using (Typo) has a couple of great filters that allow you to write fancy-schmancy HTML in articles and comments without actually having to know any.

OK, so it’s taken me over two months to finally put these photos on the web. This was the day (28th June 2005) that our car decided to spontaneously catch fire. At rush hour. On a busy motorway roundabout. Whilst towing our caravan. Containing most of our worldly possessions. And which we couldn’t detach because I had hamfistedly broken the jockey wheel two days before.

I’ve finally got round to putting our travel blog live. Now we just need to work out what to put on it…