This blog post includes the short trips that we took around Northern UK (Carlisle, Hadrian's Wall, Loch Ness, Edinburgh) and a weekend side trip to Paris when Mei's parents came to visit at the tail-end of a three week European holiday.The majority of their trip was filled with a coach tour around the big ticket cities of Europe. They then swapped the professional tour guide for our 'services' as we showed them our favourite places around London - the sights that had caused us to fall in love with being in the UK.