The Lensfield Cambridge

... But rather than having a small panic, as I would have done before, I gave a rather flippant sort of ‘yeah, we can do that…’

One of the bizarre things that we are not able to buy in England is stands to display posters on. They have a store called ‘Staples’, which is much like office works, and sells absolutely everything office related except display stands. The unfortunate issue here is that most of the stands for work have been lost ...

So after 6 months away and visiting 8 different countries, we have now arrived, reluctantly, back in England. Although its not as cold as we were expecting, which is a bonus!

We have had a fantastic time and visited some amazing places, and we are now hoping that reality doesn't hit us too hard!

Hope that you have enjoyed our blog and will probably see most of you shortly.

The last few weeks have been really manic while we've prepared to put our furniture into storage and get our property ready for letting. Thankfully, most of the hard work is completed and now we can concentrate on getting ready for our travels. It's difficult to believe that we leave in just under a week!

We fly into Delhi on Monday, arriving very early ...

... 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!
XO

... 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!

XO

... br>Alison and Dave took us to “The Orchard” tea rooms for lunch/afternoon tea – and it really was in an orchard – apples. There was also a small museum to Rupert Brooke the poet because he and his student cronies used to frequent the tea rooms before they were all shipped off to die in the First World War.
Next Danny and I went looking for my conference centre. I knew only the street name ...

... of foreign culture. I have already started plans for a Christmas time holiday to see the Northern Lights (something I completely missed by spending most of my time at the equator or below it) I've had a wonderful two weeks seeing everyone again, my newest niece is beautiful and almost walking, if still toothless. My parents are as lovely as ever and taking care of me, providing marmite, lifts and places to stay until I get a job and can afford ...

... meeting some of his friends. Good night but I thankfully wasn't too ridiculous. On Sunday I called home and chatted to everyone, interrupting the Father's Day dinner but it was good to feel like a part of it in a way. Later that day I saw a movie with Dolly from Manchester, we saw Breach which I thought was excellent. No drinking Sunday, I think I've been on it a bit much lately! Bloody alco. Monday I ...

... the done thing here and I still haven't tracked down a medium sized one that isn't ludicrously expensive (by Aussie standards... if I let myself drift into thinking in pounds as I'm starting to it would seem fine). I was thinking though of getting a helmet that I can use both for snowboarding and bike riding... there are a couple of skate shops around I could buy one from. Then I can snowboard this Christmas instead of skiing ...

... stuff with. I only wish he had held out a large bin.... or maybe not. Since getting back to the UK I've found out that United won't even charge me for the stuff I have on the flight home. It looks like Qatar was the wrong airline to carry overweight bags. For a 12% increase in my weight allowance they charged me almost the price of the ticket. My total weight - me ...