Google Earth

Robin introduced me to this amazing new FREE program from Google. You can download it and then literally zoom in on any area on Earth - it is amazing.

Some areas have so much detail that you can see cars, maybe even people! There is also a tilt function to change the way you view your selected area - awesome. I just could not get over the fact that this was all free - just a few years ago we'd have been talking hundreds of pounds for something like this!

Robin and I have been having a play with it, it then struck us that it is a perfect thing for the kids to have an enormous amount of fun with - but be learning heaps on the sly. Both Elias and Joy thought it was pretty amazing too, we've looked up where I lived in the US, where friends and family live, and of course, Oxford - where we live.

You can find it here take a look, have a play, see how the world just got smaller!