We took a direct flight from Dubrovnik in Croatia to Stansted airport just outside of London in England. We rented a car at the airport, had our first burgers in a month and drove off to Norwich. We spent a few days in Norwich, visiting my cousins and their new baby, and generally puttering around. My brother and I took a day trip over to nottingham, and life was good.
Oh English pub food, how my arteries and I have missed you.
From Norwich we wound our way though the English countryside to Sunderland, near Newcastle. We spent our few days in this area puttering around Durham, Newcastle, Penshaw, and a fun little town called Beamish. Beamish's claim to fame is that they boast a sort of mining museum. Its more than that though, its a whole town, village, and mine, complete with tram and bus transport systems, permenantly rooted in the year 1913. It was great fun seeing all the old cars, and even venturing down into one of the old coal mine shafts (bituminous coal, if any of my geology friends are reading).
After Sunderland we drove north into Scotland, staying in Dundee. Along the way we visited Lindisfarne for some mead, auchtermuchty for some relative hunting, peterhead for the same, and drove through the highlands to soak up some scenery.
Next we head back down into England and Wales.
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