Harvey is back!!!

The update you’ve all been waiting for is finally here – joyfully, the old chap is back with us and firing on all 10 cylinders (yep he is a V10).  Despite recent news saying it would be next week at the earliest, the call came in around lunch time today.  So I write this blog as we excitedly sit on a train to the Midlands for a reunion with our mate. 

To be honest it took a little while for the news to sink in but once it did, we noticed each other’s mood improve out of sight.  I don’t think we realised how much the lack of a Harvey had been weighing on us both, just the unknown and lack of future certainty.

From here the adventure is back on!!!  This weekend is an overdue visit to our friends in Newport, then back in the other direction for a ferry sailing to France on Tuesday.  It’s no understatement to say we’re rapt to be resuming our ‘Adventures WITH Harvey’!

The last couple of days in London have been lovely, ticking off the final few big-ticket items.  Both of us had been to the Tower of London before but not for 20 or so years so it was great to be back.  The Beefeater tour was such a hoot, they really bring the history to life.  Hard to believe that the white tower (the original structure in the middle) was built in the 1070’s by William the Conqueror!  After the tower, a visit to the National Gallery was the final stop on our list – such a treat to see Turners, Constables, Van Goghs, and Monets among many others.  You really wonder how they painted on canvasses so large and how the colours have survived so well, often for many hundreds of years.

The last night in town was spent at the musical ‘Six’ which gave a modern and humorous take on the six wives of Henry VIII.  On the way we stumbled across Mr Fogg’s Society of Exploration cocktail bar.  Downstairs, it was themed as a tribute to the Jules Verne character bearing the same name… and an absolute treat!

That’s it for today – shorter and much sweeter.  One week later than planned but we’ll see you in France 😊  











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