Guildford Hotel
253 High Street Guildford, Surrey, England, GU1 3BZ, United Kingdom
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Casing the joint ...
... one of those "ridiculous" Jaguar tours, but when Nick heard I had a cousin in Kenya who certainly needed visiting, the suggestion of including Kenya on the itinerary seemed to appear like smoke out of the genie's lamp.
Just as magical and altogether alluring.
But to desert one's own family to spend Christmas with another part of one's family didn't seem quite right either, so the "Oooo! Look! Zanzibar! Why don't we have Christmas in Zanzibar and ...
So I'm home....
... don't feel it when you are going through, you cough a little etc but it dosen't really effect you. Now once we were in our nice clean hotel we both felt the effects of it and it was grim. Properly makes you feel nauseous and in desperate need of a shower. And not a normal shower either, think Crying Game shower. Have you seen that film? It's really not nice is it? But you get the idea of what I mean. He sees all that then you see him pretty much scrubbing himself with bleech and ...
Tumblin' Through London
... prepaid travel cards that you can use on buses and the tube. The underground map confused me so much. I tried to pay attention to everywhere we went, but I think it's a hopeless case. Never really got lost, though! :) Once we got to Chinatown, we ate at Four Seasons Chinese restaurant. I love Chinese food and am not picky at all, so I tried everything. Instead of everyone ordering a separate meal, most people order a few dishes to share. It ...
Time to Return
... going to get home.
It took around two and a half hours to hitch (for the final time in France on this trip) to St Malo, where i had arranged to meet a couch surfer to keep me company for the afternoon until i took the ferry to take me back to Portsmouth, in the intervening hours until my evening ferry at 10pm, Laurent introduced me to his friends, he was a marine biologist, so a fairly free spirit and his friends likewise. Eventually the time came to get the the port, Laurent ...
All by myself - no more
... and the National Gallery. At the moment there is a christmas tree in the square which is an annual gift from Norway to thank Britain for its help in WWII. There is also a giant menorah in the square which I don't think is a gift from anyone but is a symbol of London trying to encompass different December traditions.
I spent a good couple of hours in the National Gallery. There are so many beautiful paintings, with an overwhelming number ...



