iPad day ............after spending 4 hrs and 1 hr on the phone with the  ipad technical support help desk I've fallen out of love with Apple. Never have I been so frustrated with a piece of technology that should be a plug and play piece of kit. Verifying an email address proved impossible even for the tech support guy....so I have left it with my mum to take to the Apple store in London when she visits my brother in two weeks time (hint Stephen...take mum to the store and get it working for her please).

On a more pleasant note Paul and Gillian came over to see us for a Bon Voyage dinner - we even sat outside the Chairmakers pub in the late evening sun and then retired inside to sink a few wines.

Today we move onto Kent....we are getting closer to the start of our European tour. We are spending one night in the Black Horse CC site close to the Eurostar and then Thursday's planned departure time is 11:20am and we will be in France at 12:50pm - a short 30min trip on the Euro star and the +1BST and we will be there...hurry.