One week, over 1000 miles.

We've been on our holidays over to England where the weather has been atrocious and the traffic congestion seems to get worse ever time. Still, we covered over 1000 miles visiting family and friends.

We also attended the "Concert for Diana" at the new Wembley Stadium. This is a really impressive structure although its public transport connections aren't really up to the job of getting the number of people the stadium can hold in and out efficiently. The concert was excellent though - being of the same age as Diana would have been had she lived, this was like having many of my favourite bands all together in the same concert! If one were being critical then one might suggest that having fewer bands could have resulted in less turnaround time between them, but that's always going to be a compromise.

Here's the view of the stadium from our seats....



I briefly visited my old university on the way down. Despite the passage of 24 years since I graduated not very much of what was there in 1983 has changed, though there has been much added to the place, most notably a Science Park that used to be fields in my time! Here's me at my Halls of Residence, home for the first two years I was at Keele....



Here's an example of the weather - this is July remember...



And finally, I managed to take a magnificent panoramic from Holme Moss...

This is a view across the Yorkshire countryside from the top of the Pennines with the town of Holmfirth in the foreground, Emley Moor TV station in the distance and the Drax power station even further in the distance.