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Time to prepare the big trip!
Hi, my name is Xavier, I'm french, I live in the UK married with 3 children. My wife is welsh and we have 2 boys and 1 girl, aged 10, 6 and 5 respectively. I'm starting this blog as a story for us, our children, family and friends to remember this journey.
Since our last trip 11 years ago, we've been thinking about this trip. The last trip had a taste of unfinished business as there's so much to see in the world. So we have prior experience although this time, we have ...
We were much amused... and tired
Since today is Sunday and churches are closed for tourism, we go to the Zoo. It wasn't as good as Amsterdam's Artis Zoo but we had to go. Did you know that the world's first aquarium is here? In fact, they coined the word. Combining Aqua and Vivarium the first Aquarium was created in 1838 at the London Zoo. After walking through the Zoo, we walked trough Regent's Park to pick up the tube to go to Regent St to the Apple store. Ryan has found out that you ...
And so we come home...
... but the people you meet along the way, I have met some of the most interesting and funny people around and although we might not meet up again we will always have the memories of fun times spent together. I left apprehensive and worried and I returned open minded, a bit scruffy but overall very happy indeed.
For those of you considering it, go on take the plunge you will not regret it!
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Life, unstructured
... onions, and sat down in a park to enjoy the salty deliciousness. I was looking for a teashop called “The Muffin Man”, so you can imagine how silly I felt when I had to ask for directions. I ordered a pot of tea, with scones, jam and Devon cream, and was happy that I’d arrived past the regular hours of the pretentious tea crowd as I fumbled with my little leaf strainer. I’ll admit though, I’ve never enjoyed tea so ...
London calling...
... very nice, the detail on the houses of parliament is quite something else. As for Big Ben well, the name Big Ben actually refers to the bell within the tower not the clock itself. How’s that for a bit of pub trivia? Anyhow I can cross it off the list.
I have a quiet night in for my last night in London town before catching the train back to Cornwall to recover and consider my next move. Most importantly Christine’s birthday is coming up and I promised I would spend it with ...
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