G'day. We are Emily Minter and Andrew Longmire. In mid-2007 we packed our motorbike into a crate and sent it from Australia across the seas. Since then we've had a brilliant 'autumn of our lives', chased south by the colour of the leaves in Europe, as well as a taste of the wet season, on the backroads of South East Asia. We have juiced the South American summer for all it's worth, cramming in as many adventures as we could...

Thursday, August 30, 2007

We're in the UK!

Sorry we haven't been writing much lately! We've been expoloring the UK.

We spent a week or so cruising the streets of London and Cambridge - London is great, and Cambridge is absolutely beautiful! It was great to see our friends Rick, Alison (and meet a new one, little Isabella!), and also see that Keiran is settling in comfortably :) Your hospitality was wonderful, thanks again for having us. x























After a week of waiting, the bike finaly emerged from a non-descript warehouse full of similiar worthless treasures. It took us three hours to put it together, and we rolled it to the nearest petrol station just as the long weekend started and headed out for Wales and southern England ...



















What a treasure! We rode through rolling green hills (green like we're not used to at home), and were blown away by the absolute care taken in the villages and towns. Every building is a delight.



































Despite the huge population of these islands, we managed to find beautiful places to camp












Stonehenge. A beautiful and powerful place.

(And made more accessible by the hand held tour guides).

















What a beautiful island! Now we're on our way to Belgium. Hope to be a bit more regular with our posts. Hope all is well back in that sunny (sun! we dream of it!) land of ours.

Much love E and A xxxx

4 comments:

Keiran said...

Hey guys, great pics! Thank you so much for the tea towels and all the washing, that was so unnecessary but an absolute to delight to come home to.

We had a wild weekend at the opera, drunk in black tie on trains, felt like I was an undergraduate again :-)

Safe travels, and as they say in the blogosphere, post often!

keiran

Andrea said...

Em - great boots. Andy - great haircut. And Ms. M, you better be eating some of that beautiful Belgian chocolate despite your savoury tastebuds. Enjoy lovelies! Missing you xxx

Andrea said...

Em - great boots. Andy - great haircut. And Ms. M, you better be eating some of that beautiful Belgian chocolate despite your savoury tastebuds. Enjoy lovelies! Missing you xxx

Andrea said...

Oops, sorry about the double message. Bloody Australian internet!