Dorset and London - 18th to 24th of June 2010

Thanks to some well organised friends, we were greeted at Heathrow on Friday night after our Scandinavian adventure and driven southwest to Ben(our token English friend)'s parents house in Dorset. After a drive of about 3.5 hours and a few beers we were up surprisingly early for a spot of shopping at the weekly farmers market. We finally dragged Ange away, but only as far as the annual food and beer festival and then out to the coast for a nice walk up the cliffs.

Getting up our thirst we headed back for a BBQ and some cards before heading back to the beach on Sunday for some kite flying and of course more NZ football/soccer action.

With an afternoon to kill in London town on Monday we did a bit of touristing we never got round to while living here, so we went off to St Johns Wood for a tour of the Lord's cricket ground and a quick skim and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Having applied for Wimbledon tickets months earlier we were over the moon to have finally got some in the post a few weeks ago. So along we went to SW19 for a great day in the sun at Court 2. There were 4 games of tennis on, the highlight for Warren watching Maria Sharapova grunt her way through to the second round and laughing at the ball boys, and for Ange the final game of the day, a 5-setter with some great action between Juan Carlos Ferrero and Xavier Marisse.

Wednesday was a jobs day, but we did pop out to Harrods before dinner with friends before we jumped on a plane on Thursday for our next adventure, Spain...