Arrived nice and early (6.30am) on Tues morn to - you guessed it - shitty, cold, rainy english weather!! this is meant to be SUMMER!! but nevermind, Urszula picked us up from the airport and took us to beautiful Blenheim Palace, which has 20acres of gardens. We spent the day trapping around the lake, through their sheep fields, wandering in the beautiful house, and playing in the pleasure gardens which had a maze and butterfly house. Yay! The grounds also featured a miniture train and train track which tooted nicely. we rode it twice and twas lots of fun.
also stopped off in a few really cute english villages for tea and photos of flowerboxes. phil is very impressed.
spent today in birmingham city centre checking out the shops and english teens. also found lovely art gallery and nice church with pretty gardens, which we sat in in the sunshine which eventually appeared, hooray. also hung out in a pop-up temporary beach in the city - cool - which seemed to be some elaborate advertising scheme and featured lots of sand, deckchairs, a bar and a dj. fun! pictures will follow in next update but getting close to bedtime now - 9.30 pm and we're going strong. also still light outside which is cool.
thats all for now i think. sleepytimes now, then more hanging in bham followed by quite a long train trip to sussex. should be lovely :)
