Yep a month’s gone by since my last update, shocking isn’t it – although you shouldn’t be suprised…

Well I’ve been across to Newcastle, met up with mum and dad, along with Ridley & Lynette, then wandered around Newcastle for a day or two, went down to Whitley Bay to see where grandad and grandma grew up and saw the house(s) they lived in and where grandad was born, so that was pretty good.

Then we were off to Wimbledon, up at 2am (pick up from Hexam) for a ‘quick’ coach ride down to London, move forward 10 hours and we’ve made it to Wimbledon hehe we had Show Court 1 tickets (i.e. not centre court) but it was the last Sat of the tournament and they were behind schedule, so we managed to get to see the Nadal Semi, womens double semi and saw the Woodies take on Pat Cash and Richard Kriajech in a exhibition match, this was quite funny, alot of messing! Wimbledon was awesome, fantastic atmosphere and a good time had by all. Ohh yes we managed to get onto Centre Court to see the mixed doubles semi as well, they just opened up the court, so that has handy!
Sunday saw us off to Windsor Castle, a massive, massive place, with even longer line-ups! however because we had some package tour rolled into our Wimbledon tickets, we managed to queue jump, love it! Wandered around there for a few hours, the queen was in residence, but didn’t want a cuppa with us, nor a beer, biatch! I then had to catch 5, yes 5 trains to get to the other side of London to meet up with Matty & Louise before heading out to Wembley to catch Metallica, who were awesome – they played mostly old stuff and played for 2.5 hours, good times.

Mum & dad made their way to Ireland the Tues afterwards, we went to Riverdance on the Wed night for mum’s birthday, mum liked it, it was a little bit so-so for me, but all good. Picked up the hire car 13 June and we’ve hit up Kilkenny, Waterford and we are now in Cork. Went to Kilkenny Castle, Waterford Crystal factory – did a tour of both, whilst wandering down the coast towards Cork I saw a sign for the Jameson Distillery tour in Middletown, so we went in and did that – another excellent tour and another few hundred Euro’s gawwwwn haha – I managed to get a bottle of Irish Whisky that is ONLY available at the distillery, 12 year old stuff, so it’s good, the kicker is the label has my name on it!! yeap custom made!

That’s it for now, sitting in our hotel room at Cobh, mum and dad say hi to everyone as well!