Travelling south

We continued our journey south, with a slight detour to Southampton where we had lunch with Neil. It was great to catch up over pizza and a beer. Amazing to realise that it's been a year already since he and Kimberley left New Zealand. Good to see that he is settled, with plans for the future and has been continuing to indulge his love of travel.


From there we travelled on to Torquay. Fortunately we had booked via the Internet the day before, as the town was full of "no vacancies" signs, being a seaside town in the middle of school holidays. Not only that, but we were right by the sea, with a lovely view from the bar's terrace. We had a very pleasant evening, and for a change it was mild enough to sit outside wearing shorts and T shirts!


This is the beach just across the road from the hotel. In the distance are multicoloured individual changing sheds.


As on several occasions, we stayed at a Premier Inn. We have found them to be consistently good value, clean and with very helpful friendly staff. They always have a restaurant next door, and wifi, though you do have to pay. If you book a month in advance you can pay as little as £32 a night. So we are paying less for 3 nights in London on our way home than we paid for one night at the start of our trip. The room is also twice the size, but a long way further from the centre of London. But that's OK as it's close to the Metro.
;-) Ann-a-Gram