Heat wave

After a cool 12 days with perhaps a little more rain than we wanted it was a shock to come home to a heat wave. The train journey home was the fastest and easiest of all our journeys. The only pain was the slightly overcrowded London train, probably of those rushing to the tropical heat of the south east. I'm just grateful we never had heat like this on our holiday. However, one thing the south east does seem to have in abundance is wonderful cloud formations. The two in the foreground here looked like a horse rolling on its back and a kid splashing in a bath tub - it beats the grey wash that can engulf northern England.

Anyway, after 12 regular trains, 5 steam trains, 1 speed boat, 1 rowing boat, 2 buses, 2 coaches, 3 taxis, 1 mountain gondola, 1 chair lift, 1 high rope bridge, 1 zip wire, 3 mountain ranges, 1 peak, 5 rooms and two pairs of worn walking boots, it's back to work for me and off to Spain for K for her third holiday this year. If she ever tells me she doesn't get to have great holidays I'm putting her up for adoption.