Purple Hotel Cambridge

... on, broken by students or bent in the packing process. My co-worker and I spent a good half hour perusing Staples and trying to think of ways to build a stand out of book ends and paper clips, until she suddenly suggested making one out of a metal coat hanger. Hurrah! So that was today’s project, frolicking outside in the sun, bending 6 hangers into various pretty shapes until finally we have display stands! Yay! If I could bottle that ingenuity and sell it, I could make a fortune!

... hardly any time left. Nicholle flies on Sunday into Sydney and is spending the first week at her god parents house 45 mins from Sydney. Then I fly out to meet her on 5th Dec. Then the true adventure begins.

This week has been fairly stressful, especially for Nic. Visa problems, New year accomodation and the dreaded packing. Anyone that knows Nic and I know that we aren't your typical backpackers, to say the ...

... the morning. We still haven't finalised our hotel in Delhi, but we're not panicking! Apparently the booking arrangements will only be finalised on Wednesday. Still the hotel gets excellent reviews and is a good price, so we want to stay there if we can.

We've got our netbook working now (phew), so our next post will be from India.

... cousin Elliot, his fiancee Nicole and their little 8 month old baby Isla came to visit. The girl has personality! After a play we were off to the Green Man for dinner - Uncle Alan joined us again. We had lovely views of the countryside and fireworks (Guy Fawkes seems to drag out for a few days!). Then back home to Hudsons Lodge for an early night - to Paris tomorrow!
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... up by my cousin Elliot after some initial issues - Josh and I had hoped to hire a car for a couple of days, however due to lack of credit card we couldn't. Elliot kindly swung past Jim and Cath's to pick up all our 'other stuff' and then to Aunty Sue's house in the country - seriously !

Another country down - just Paris to go on Sunday morning. I can't believe we will be home in a week - the much feared packing will have to begin soon!

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... brilliant transport system?), we only ev** queued at a few tourist sights and the streets w**e not especially busy. The chilly weath** might have played a part but we w**e assured it gets much cold** come January. Aft** the war a lot of people left B**lin and the population has nev** recov**ed. The city is v**y clean. We w**e nev** aware of people sweeping the streets or anything like that, but we w ...

... in my life. Luckily, we did lots of walking around the mountains. And Bill bought new shoes (finally). On Sunday we went to Montreaux (one week too late for the jazz festival), which looks like it used to be lovely... before the tourists came and someone thought it'd be a good idea to build a big apartment block or an ugly hotel. The castle, the lake and the mountains were really beautiful though. Then back to Zurich, and on to London, then Cambridge. And here we are.

SUNDAY, 14th January In the morning, after breakfast, we watched the recorded bits of the football we had missed while we were out the night before. We took off soon afterwards, took the A10 to Cambridge and parked under a hotel. We wandered the old streets in the cold and saw both Trinity and St. Johns colleges from their quadrangles. I think I prefer Oxford. We had a big lunch of chicken and bacon and ...

Ok, so its day one of the online record of our trip to NZ. I have spend this morning emailing letting agents to see about letting our house, trying to get the boiler fixed, and looking for linoleum on the web for our kitchen. Although the kitchen still isn't finished! We will get there - we cracked on this weekend and made ...

... fast train for this bit of rail. I am coming in early to try and get to the bank to organise my bank account. I don't need to be out at Staines until 1.15pm. I have bought a 1-day travel card for £22 which will get me my return journey from Cambridge-London as well as all Zones of travel on the Tube and the London buses. With a bit of luck I will get near a wireless internet place so I can take all this stuff I have been writing off my laptop and put it on the Internet.