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Hometown Glory
... and happily wished me safe travels. I stopped to purchase my friend Rosanna, who I was staying with, a Polish mug for her tea, as I thought this would be the perfect gift for a Brit. :-) It was time to board and of course, guess who was the only one asked to place her bag in the midget sized metal rack to test its size? Of course it took me five minutes to jam the thing in there, while enduring gazes and laughs of other passengers, I then wasted ten minutes trying to get the ...
All our bags...
... adventure we are about to embark on and hope it will be a trip of a lifetime! Am sure there will be many highs and no doubt a few lows but like we have continually told ourselves IT'S ALL PART OF THE EXPERIENCE!
So just like John Denver once sang... We're leaving on a jet plane don't know when we'll be back again......
Until our next update adios amigos!!
Jem & Paul xx
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Misc ramblings
Saturday, August 4 In the morning I went to the Royal Artillery Barracks to watch shooting competitions. Jamie Lee Gray of Team USA won a gold medal in women 50 meter 3 position rifle shooting. There is a separate blog on this. In the early evening I saw two beach volleyball matches. What more can I say? In an earlier blog ...
Slipping back into the real world
... every day we have been here and has only been around 18 to 20 degrees - as cool as our Perth winter. It does sometimes seem Britain only has seasons about four-weeks a year: one week of winter, one week of summer, one of spring and one of autumn. The remainder of the time seems to be homogenous not cold, not warm, damp and grey!! (An incorrect stereotypical view I know as I used to live here - but one that seems to fit ...
London - An (In)Auspicious Beginning
... Market. Just in case you are wondering, too, he says there isn't.)
The next morning, we arose at 5:00 so that we could catch the tube at 6:00 to give us plenty of time to get to Victoria Station, catch the train to Gatwick Airport, check-in, go through security, and relax a little before our 8:30 flight. Unfortunately, we didn't account for the fact that it was Sunday, and ...