Bishop's Stortford, England

Well, a few days and a fair amount of rain later, we've almost completed the first week of our gap year! In the Cotswolds, we helped out at Camilla's little cousin Adam's beaver group (boy scouts in America) which was basically a bunch of six year olds running around screaming. We did a weather wordsearch with them only one of the boys kept trying to eat his pencil, so it proved somewhat difficult to get them to do it and they kept on making fun of Elena because she has a weird accent! Later, we played Lego Rockband at the cousin's house and failed at the guitar to the point that we were doing worse than Adam (6) and Peter (8), who were on the 'Super Easy' level, and didn't even have to press the right coloured buttons. We saw the Severn Bore, which is when the tides out at sea become too high, and create a small tidal wave on the River Severn in Gloucester - it was about three feet high. There were some people there who were getting ready to surf it, which would have been quite fun, though cold! We then went to Newport, Wales. Elena didn't believe it was a different country, despite the sign saying "Croeso I Cymru" or "Welcome to Wales", until Jim and Camilla convinced her that she needed a passport to get across! Wales was good, and we had a lovely pub dinner with the Shearman family while Jean (Camilla's grandma) was trying to get us drunk! The last couple of days have been spent in Bishop's Stortford visiting Camilla's school friends. We stayed at Aphra's house, and gave Elena her first taste of fish and chips before spending the night at the pub with some other English friends Katie, Lucy and Tom. The next day we walked past Camilla's old two schools Herts & Essex and Summercroft to Izzie and Lizzies house and went to town. If you haven't had Dorrington's before, it is the best food EVER! The iced buns are ridiculously delicious! Last night we watched the new season of the Inbetweeners (amazing!) with the Ollie, Claire, Gav, Harry and Matt. And now we are at Gavin's house packing for Greece! We will be sleeping in London Heathrow Airport tonight, and will be spending most of the day in London getting ready for our 4am departure! It's 30 degrees centigrade / 86 degrees F in Greece! Yay!
- E&C

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKFjWR7X5dU
watch this! as requested by Lizzie