This weekend just past was going to be a laid back, relaxing and soothing few days of rest from the riggers of work. But, I forgot Carmen had other things planned. We started off on Saturday morning by trucking into town to EasyCar to hire a car. After walking into an underground car park, we started to look around for the rental office, before it drove up beside us and parked. Looking sideways at the little man inside (who wouldn't let us take his photo) we gave him some cash and took the keys.

Although an ongoing theme, we had finally made the decision over Christmas, that we were going to have to find a flat in Croydon / Redhill as soon as possible so that Carmens work journey was less than an hour instead of 1:45+ each way. After a couple of weeks fluffing around we were driving to Redhill to drop in on some agents to get a flat. We looked around; they weren't to bad, small, around the £550 - £650 /m mark but most importantly, close to the train station. No decisions made =(

After spending the better part of the day in Redhill, we drove out to Carmens work Xmas function (yes after Xmas). Food was good, people were friendly and the setting was great - except for the fact it was in the middle of the whoops. As soon as the food was consumed, unlike most of these functions the crowd bolted for the dance floor. I was shocked...80% of the people were on the floor by the end of the first song.

Next morning, changing the EasyCar contract online to unlimited miles, we decided to make the most of it and head out to Stone Henge. Few hours to cross London then a few more hours on the other side, we got to Stone Henge about lunch time. It is pretty impressive, although not massive, you can't but be bewildered by the fact these stones were dragged hundreds of miles as far away as Wales. Surrunding the Henge are burial mounds, scattered in no particular order over a large area. You aren't allowed to go up to and paw them so after looking at the rocks on the ground, we had heard about another less famous rock formation about 20 miles north at Avbury. Avbury is about the same age as Stone Henge, 5000 years old. While, Stone Henge is about 20 meters in diameter, the outer circle at Avbury is about 200 meters, with smaller formations inside the outer circle. The whole arrangement is encircled by a 10 meter deep ditch which is as old as the construction. You can touch these ones! To be honest, although there are a lot more stones and a larger formation, the stones have not been shaped into the rectangles you know at Stone Henge, and they aren't any on top of each other. So I personally found it less impressive, but still cool.

By the time we returned the car, we had clocked up about 350miles in the two days, which amounted to about 20% of the one-month-old rental cars total distance travelled. I smiled.