Windmillhill Place Hotel
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There's No Place Like Home
So we finally reached our last week of travelling! We had one week left to spend in Bangkok before we flew home. We spent the week exploring temples, catching up at the cinema (before each film they play the national anthem and everyone stands to sing!), and most importantly hitting the markets! Bangkok has a HUGE weekend market, we spent 6 hours there on the Saturday, and 7 hours on the Sunday, and still missed large parts of it, it was incredible!
One day ...
Beside the sea
... collection of old toys. The Brighton Museum and Art Gallery includes excellent displays of furniture from the Art Nouveau, Art Deco and other periods. There was also a special exhibition of the fashion and interior design of Biba, aka Barbara Hulanicki, famous in England from the 1960s-70s.
The most famous landmark of Brighton is the Royal Pavilion, with its striking design resembling an Indian ...
And this one's for Logan, and my niece Dianne.
... I was due to drive back to my placement (just outside Friston, near Eastbourne), I had a text to say that the host's 90 year old mother had fallen and had a brain haemmorhage and was not expected to live. Obviously, this meant the end of my placement, but all my stuff was still in a bedroom near Eastbourne, so I had to drive back down. Had that ...
Chapter Two. Lenham
... advice is expedient.
It’s easy to find our way to Maidstone, but difficult to navigate the city streets. One false turn ends us up in the paid parking lot for the neighbouring shopping precinct. Not to worry. As well as getting our supplies at the supermarket, we also get to tour the rather scruffy mall.
When we get ...
Chapter One. Arrival.
... us for the long drive from Terminal four to the rental car areas.
"What now?" I ask the driver as we arrive at the Hertz lot.
“Over there” he points to a grey cargo container set up as a mobile office on the far side of the Hertz rental lot.
“You're kidding!” I exclaim. Whatever have we got ourselves into?
We shuffle across the Hertz lot, trailing our suitcases, to the ...
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