Retaining the Ashes - Hurray for England

On boxing day we joined about 85,000 others to watch England and Australia battle it out for the Ashes. We had an awesome day and the Aussies ended up all out with only 98 runs. The crowd were fantastic and we had a great time taking the Micky out of the Aussies.

What a great score board:

Here is Clarke doing the walk of shame:

The Barmy Army were awesome:

Too true:

We also went back on day 2 as we'd had so much fun the day before. This event seriously cheered us up and stopped us from missing everyone back home a bit.

We're now off to Tasmania on the bikes for a month. Our van goes into the garage today to get all of its dents removed (too many trees jumping out at us!). We'll be sorry to leave the luxury of our van and it feels very alien to be cycling again.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE AND KEEP FOLLOWING US IN 2011.