2265 miles,11 beds, much kindness (and sparkly wine) and baby joy...now that's what I call a road-trip!

Arrived back last night after an eighteen day road-trip that took us as far north as Fife in Scotland and on travels that meant we covered 2265 miles in our round trip. We have so many people to thank...Pauline's sister Eileen was kind enough to have us for 3 nights at her house in Epsom on our way north which included a catch up with friends Mike & Liz for lunch in Dorking and then 2 nights on the return leg of our journey which included a Burns celebration and a catch up with friends old and new.

Then it was a welcome stop-off at friends Norman at Margaret's lovely home just outside Preston to break the journey north to Fife.

We spent a couple of pleasant nights with Pauline's brother Ron and his wife Evelyn at Balmullo near St.Andrews in Fife which included a 'fish & chips' evening.

From Fife it was down to Edinburgh for the birth of our beautiful Ada in 'Little France' courtesy of Rose & Michael.

We stayed 2 nights in a hotel in Edinburgh (could dedicate a whole post to that...may yet) and slept in a very large bed (one of eleven).

Enjoyed some 'staring adoringly' time with Ada before heading down to Ayrshire to catch up with Family and friends to share our joy.

Our hectic Ayrshire schedule included three different overnight stays in a row with friends Lindsay & Michael at Craigie, Bert & Geraldine in Galston and Allan & Lorna  at Darvel. We also abused our dear friend John by using his house as a staging post and he also had us for a few nights staying over. It was also great to catch up with family...lots of bubbly consumed.

It was then back over to Edinburgh for a final stay and more Ada staring and holding at Michael & Rose's before heading south.

We had another great stop-over at Jane and Peter's beautiful home in Yorkshire on the way which included a tour of their great new VW camper van and also of Peter's stunning new bathroom (all his own work).

This is their other form of holiday travel

Now it's back to normality (whatever that is) for gran & papa.