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Bye bye Blankie
... Blankie and Jamie were awake and trying to get themselves sorted.
Jamie was going to Glasgow for the day for work and Blankie was getting ready to leave on her 22 hour journey to Hamburg. We had one last meal together and were pretty reflective about the time we had all spent together. After all, we called ourselves the heartbreak tour... It was so nice to be with them both, I wish Khanh Chi had been there too (the other girl from California that we met in Amsterdam) ...
Four weeks
Just four weeks to go and I just want to be settled on board with the real world, and Christmas , left behind. I still need to order money and am checking the exchange rates daily its still going up so hang on. If it starts to go down then I buy before it looses any more. The money is delivered to the ship so don't have to carry it. The exchange rate is pretty good also. Found ...
What can I give this Christmas?
This year 6,657 Christmas shoeboxes were donated to The Trussell Trust for distribution in Bulgaria. This is another record and a reminder that there are a lot of you out there that really care about others much less fortunate than yourselves. If the children and adults who will receive the presents this year were able, they'd say a huge thank you to everybody who gave shoeboxes or their time to help sort them. It's really good ...
The last day
It's gone so quickly and there is so much still to see....another return trip perhaps? It's been an interesting visit, different to that we expected perhaps, as mentioned before, contrasts from lavish demonstrations of (modern) wealth to remnants of the soviet past. From Lada's to Lamborghini's, it has a real mix, but looking through a sort of facade which behind it there is still some way to go to get to western world standards, ...
Visiting the Mayor
... to tell us about the industrial and commercial history of Southampton. After a good talk about Romans, Saxons and Normans, we soon digressed into a discussion about politics and its influence on education and economy.
Then it was time for our presentations. We were iformed about the Italian, Norwegian, German, Greek, Finnish, Swedish and Bulgarian systems, and I did ...
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