We've arrived in the land of marble, souvalaki and olive oil. We have spent a couple of days looking around Athens, enjoying the sunshine and seeing some ancient Greek stuff - the best being the Parthenon and the Acropolis. Now we are on a Greek island.

Spring is sprang... sprunged. London's cold, grey, damp winter has dissipated and there is a spring freshness in the air.

The skies are blue, the sun has a hint of warmth and the days are getting longer (beyond 4pm now). The temperature now soars into double figures during the day.

The flowers are blooming the trees are blossoming and the pigeons are mating. People are returning to the streets (as if they weren't crowded enough) and you can sit at an outside table without gloves, beanie and scarf.

And we are leaving...

A couple of Saturdays ago we hopped a train out to Reading to visit Theresa and her boyfriend Luke. Theresa (who is a real live English person) met Aimee when they were both trying to find their way on the tube, both in their first week at work. It turned out they work near each other.

Last weekend we hired a car and did a 4 day road trip to the south west of England, visiting the counties of Wiltshire, Bath, Somerset, Devon and Dorset. We saw some cool stuff and enjoyed driving for the first time since we left Aus 9 months ago.