Britain suffered a similar meteorological treatment as New Zealand this summer when a few showers turned into weeks of wet dreary weather. Luckily summer played ball in time for the Olympics and our trip with warm and often sunny weather to bring out the charm and... 
For all I love the raw beauty of New Zealand there is nothing quite like English countryside to warm the bottom of your soul. We’ve been holidaying in Norfolk which is one of England’s finest counties but the same can be said of Herefordshire and Yorkshire... 
I’ve been excited about the Olympics coming to London since I leapt up and down in a car park in Milton Keynes with a colleague of mine over 6 years ago.  I confess we absconded from a meeting to listen for the result on my car radio. It was worth the delays... The first time I heard his characteristically French “oo la la” I was almost suffocating under a mound of coats piled into my arms by VIPs at corporate function.  By the time I had dumped the offending garments into the arms of one of my staff and... It was only after trying to explain to my seven year old nephew how I had travelled back in time over the international date and why people in New Zealand are going to bed when in London we are just getting up that I realised how much I have taken international... 
