Thursday, September 07, 2017

Going up, to that there ' North' !!

Well we leave this morning to head 'Up North' , to Newcastle actually where we will spend overnight in the Doubletree Hotel at Newcastle Airport before boarding our Cruise ship in the nearby Port
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The journey will take about five hours, if we go non-stop, which we wont, as we will need to stop for lunch and the occasional Loo stop whilst taking a break.
We plan to share the driving to make it easier. Today was all about packing bags and getting the house ready for leaving but just to complicate matters the toilet in our bedroom decided to pack up so with our local plumber on the job it was fixed within a couple of hours.
Its nice having built in units but it makes it very difficult for the plumber to repair and in this case what he thought was a quick change of the plunger meant to complete removal of the toilet and then refit all taking about two hours.
However with that complete we could continue with packing until the Denovan-Smith clan arrived full of spirits and ready for anything. Katherine speech is improving by the day whilst Christopher just sits and there smiles and makes noises, absolutely wonderful and the kids are so happy and a credit to their mum.
We hope to leave Weybridge around 09.30 and get to our Hotel at Newcastle Airport around 17.00 hrs and hope we have a good journey up the M25 and A1M.
Our route to Newcastle
This blog will be updated on a daily basis whilst we are travelling but may not get published due to lack of Wi-Fi on our travels.
Speak to you tomorrow