Saltburn

My wife went red on holiday in the North-East.

Saltburn?

Sunburn!

Freemantle

My wife's gone to South-West Australia to get a shelf for the fireplace.

Freemantle?

No, she's paying for it.

Dhakar

My wife's gone to Bangladesh.

In Dhakar?

No, she flew.

Bath

My wife got very dirty when travelling around the towns in the Avon Valley.

Bath?

That would have helped.

Clermont-Ferrand

My wife went to the Auvèrnhe region of France and visited one of its oldest cities.

Clermont-Ferrand?

Pardon? No, there weren't any ex-Liberal Democrat MPs there.

Camp David

My wife and her effeminate friend visited the American Presdential retreat.

Camp David?

That's the fella!

Iona

Your wife said you were too possessive so she's gone away to Inner Hebrides.

Iona...

I see what she means!

Hull

My wife took her sailing dingy up to a town on the River Humber to get it repaired.

Hull?

No, the mast.

Windermere

My wife went to a bookshop in the Lake district to buy "The Day of the Triffids".

Windermere?

That's what the sign said.

Brighton

My wife's gone to visit her gifted brother in an East Sussex seaside town.

Brighton?

He certainly is!

Canary Wharf

My wife went to a dog show in the Canary Wharf area of London.

Isle of Dogs...

So does she; that's why she went.

Rangoon

My wife went to Burma to telephone Harry Secombe.

Rangoon?

That's what she did.

Lincoln

My wife met two friends in Lincoln and then went on a boat trip up the river.

Witham?

No, her friends stayed behind.

Amazon

My wife took a barge-load of builder's tools up the river in Brazil.

Amazon?

Every kind of tool you can imagine!

(well, it works if you pronounce it the right way...)

Caracas

My wife went to see a psychiatrist in Venezuela

Caracas?

Yes, but she's cured now.

Stourbridge

My wife couldn't think of the name of that famous bridge across the Thames in London when she was in a pub quiz in a town on the edge of the Black Country in the West Midlands of England.

Stourbridge.

Well I know that and you know that, but she couldn't think of it!

Reedham

My wife went to a village on the River Yare, Norfolk, to buy some books.

Reedham?

Yes, she did.

Mendham

My wife broke her high heels walking around the village birthplace of the famous Royal Academy artist Sir Alfred Munnings (renowned as one of England's finest painters of horses) in the beautiful Waveney Valley close to the Norfolk border.

Mendham?

The local cobbler says he can.

Needham

My wife asked me to send her high heel shoes down to where she's staying in a small village on the river Waveney in Norfolk.

Needham?

She must do, otherwise she wouldn't have asked.

Torquay

My wife saw an old movie in Toads Cinema in South Devon.

Torquay?

No, it was silent actually.

Tanzania

My wife's gone to the east coast of Africa to get some sun cream.

Tanzania?

Tan's everywhere.

Wellington

My wife's going to New Zealand to buy some boots.

Wellington?

Well, she's hoping to get something more stylish than that.

Eton

My wife met some cannibals at a famous public school in Windsor.

Eton?

No, they'd already had dinner.

Leeds

My wife went to Yorkshire to get some pet equipment for dogs.

Leeds?

Caerphilly

How do Welsh haemophiliacs cut their cheese?

Sorry, wrong blog.
Go to Richard's Riddles at http://richardsriddles.blogspot.com

Cardigan

My wife bought some new clothes in a southwest Wales market town in the Pembrokeshire Peninsula.

Cardigan?

No, but she got a blouse and a skirt.

Turkey

My wife went to Istanbul for Christmas dinner.

Turkey?

With all the trimmings!

New Jersey

When my wife was in America she bought some clothes in Newark.

New Jersey?

No, but she got a blouse and a skirt.

Singapore

My wife went to a pop concert somewhere in the Malay peninsular.

Singapore?

Yes, and the guitar was out of tune as well.

Nuneaton

My wife took a box of chocolates all the way to the town of George Eliot's birthplace.

Nuneaton?

No! it was still full when she got there!

Singapore

My wife lost her life savings financing an Opera company somewhere in the Malay Peninsular.

Singapore?

They certainly did!

Alaska

I'd like to ask my wife to visit the frozen north with me, but I'm a bit shy.

Alaska?

Would you?

Chile

My wife says it's too cold in England so she's going to Santiago for the winter.

Chile?

Yes, that's why she's going.

Toulouse

My wife's gone gambling in the Midi-Pyrénées région of France.

Toulouse?

No, she's hoping to win.

Krakatoa

My wife fractured a lower digit climbing a volcano east of Java.

Krakatoa?

...

Cork

My wife bought some shoes in the second largest city in Ireland.

Cork?

No, leather

Congo

My wife went to a central African republic for her holiday.

Congo?

No, she left the fifty-foot gorilla at home.


(I like this one - I don't care what anyone else says!)

Touring in Italy

My wife's going on holiday to Italy.

Tourin'?

No, she's not going that far north.

Fishguard

My wife works in an aquarium in Pembrokeshire.

Fishguard?

No, she's not in the security department.

Labrador

My wife bought a dog in the region of Atlantic Canada across the Straight of Belle Isle from the island of Newfoundland.

Labrador?

No, it was a poodle.

Furness Peninsular

I'm taking my wife up to the Furness Peninsular.

Barrow?

No, she prefers the car.

Bombay

My wife flew over the most populous city in India in an old World War 2 plane.

Bombay?

No, she travelled in the cockpit.

Little Rock

My wife went on holiday to the principal city of Arkansas,

Little Rock?

Well, not as much as in Blackpool.

Arkansas

My wife got a job as a lumberjack in Little Rock.

Arkansas?

That's what she told them in the interview.

The Garden of Ireland

My wife's hurricane lamp went out when she went camping in that area called "The Garden of Ireland" just south of Dublin.

Wicklow?

That could have been the problem.

Newquay

My wife can't get the front door unlocked in that flat she bought in that town on the north Cornish coast.

Newquay?

I suppose she could try that.

Russia

I took my wife to the former Soviet Union.

Russia?

No, she went at her own pace.

Boulder

My wife lost a game of cricket in Colarado.

Boulder?

No, leg before wicket.

Dublin

My wife went to the capital of Ireland once two years ago, and twice last year, and this year she's going four times.

Dublin?

She seems to be!

Paris

My wife got wet trying to walk across the river in Paris.

She must have been insane!

Egypt

My wife couldn't believe she fell in the river during our holiday in Egypt.

Was she in denial?

Uganda

My wife insulted me by calling me a male goose, so I sent her to Kampala.

Uganda?

Don't you start!

Saddleworth

My wife went horse riding on that famous moor near Manchester.

Saddleworth?

About fifty quid I reckon.

Norfolk

My wife's gone to Norwich because I wouldn't kiss her.

Norfolk?

Don't be personal!

Nice

My wife's relative is going to a city in the Provence-Alpes Cote d'Azur region of France.

Nice?

No, cousin actually.

Isle of White

My wife can't decide what colour hat to buy for her holiday in that island where Cowes is.

Isle of White.

I prefer yellow myself.

Cowes

My wife and the mother-in-law are going to the Isle of White.

Cowes?

Oh, they're not so bad really.

Ankora

My wife won't stay in the Turkish capital.

Ankora?

That seems a bit drastic!

Stockport

My wife told me to store many bottles of fortified wine from the Portugese Douro Valley in a warehouse in that town south of Manchester.

Stockport.

That's what she said!

Genoa

My friend's wife went to the Italian Riviera.

Genoa?

No, I never met her.

Scottish Towns

My wife's visiting all the towns in Scotland in alpahbetical order...

Dundee?

Not yet.

Idaho

My wife stole my gardening implements and fled to the potato capital of America.

Idaho!

She's stolen yours as well, huh?

Wrexham

My wife ruined my car since she drove it through that town on the A534 into Wales.

Wrexham?

She certainly does!

Dubai

My wife runs a market stall in the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

Dubai.

That's what she says to all the tourists!

Ukraine

My wife keeps insulting me by calling me bird names, so I sent her to Kiev.

Ukraine?

Don't you start!

Bucharest

The doctor told my wife she was overworked and recommended that she make a hotel reservation in Rumania.

Bucharest?

That's what he told her.

Reykjarvik

My wife trod on my nasal spray in the Icelandic capital.

Reykjarvik?

She certainly did!

Norway

(In a Yorkshire accent):

I took t'wife to Scandinavia.

Sweden?

Norway!

Rome

My wife went to Italy.

Rome?

Not much, she stayed in one place.

Redcar

My wife's driving up to Yorkshire to see the horse racing.

Redcar?

No, she's going in the blue one.

Luzon

My wife went to the Philipines on a luxury yacht.

Luzon?

Yes, it had all mod cons.

Jakarta

My wife went to Indonesia.

Jakarta?

No, she went by boat.