The Roald Dahl Museum and Meeting up with the Sheads

We have only two days of our adventuring left and just wanted to start chilling out a little. You may have caught the story in the papers but here we are in the North West of London in April and its snowing this morning. Every day the news says its going to warm-up in three or four days time, but as the weeks have gone on this has just been pushed out further and further.

We left the lodge later than usual and met up with the Shead's at Ashridge Estate. It was actually 0.5 degrees. We met walked around for about an hour and headed for an indoor location. We all decided on the Roald Dahl museum in a nearby village. It was great to catch up with other kiwis and especially one's we knew. We exchanged the typical school and English experiences we had had. Alexis was enjoying his new school and a chance to express his love of football, Dani is now a fun loving stay at home mum and I can't believe Abbey is two. 

The museum was good with a well detailed and presented area of Roald's life. The kids got to fill a question and answer form on his life. I was surprised he had been an ace flight pilot in World War 2. Sophia really enjoyed her wizzpopper drink in the Twits cafe afterwards. By and large it was a chilled out time and a chance to catch up on any news we had heard from home.




From here we drove north-west for about 60 miles. It was supposed to take about 80 minutes but ended up being 130 minutes with the motorway at times coming to a stand still. But it was the traffic heading south that I felt really sorry for. Eight miles of a parking lot on the M1. Stationary cars and trucks going nowhere. I don't know how they cope around here.