...the part I forgot to add last time was that when we arrived at the luggage collection at Heathrow, our luggage wasn't there!!! Awesome!!! Turns out that because of the extremely quick stop over in Bangkok, our luggage was still there, and wasn't to arrive in London till 6.30pm that night - it was 9am. So after almost 24 hours on a plane we were gross and desperate for a shower and change of clothes, and really had very little. Our luggage was delivered to Amy's at about 11pm that night.
So Thursday we did a day trip to Windsor, Stonehenge and Oxford. We took the trip to see Stonehenge, and while it was very good, Windsor and Oxford were the better parts of the day.
Windsor it a cute little town, dominated by Windsor Castle. We did the tour of the castle, it was a really amazing place. Stonehenge was less than you expect it to be. Not nearly as big as you might imagine either. Still, we can say we've been there now... Oxford was beautiful. It's a really lovely place. We were guided around, shown the different colleges of Oxford University. Plus Harry Potter's school! At the end we got Lucy an Oxford University t-shirt - high hopes!! Hahahahaha! Friday we spent another day around London. Looked at a couple of things we didn't see on Wednesday. It still feels weird that we are on the other side of the world. Saturday Amy and Chris took us to Richmond - a suburb of London. Took about half hour on the train to get there. Once again a really beautiful place on the Thames River. The different thing here is that everyone drinks outside the pubs etc. Doesn't matter if it's not the premises - obviously they are very well behaved people here!
Sunday we looked at St Paul's Cathedral - where Charles and Di were married. Absolutely stunning. We went in and a service was in place (thankfully Lucy was asleep). Then we went and had a look at the Spitalfields Markets. So Monday morning we were up at 4am so we could get the shuttle to the airport for our flight to Dublin. Arrived safely. Picked up our hire car and started following the directions to the hotel. Well I think they couldn't have been more wrong. Not that it worried us. We did "find" a gorgeous little town that really epitomised our image of Ireland. We are heading into Dublin today, so will let you know of our Irish travels next time.
Miss you all Billy, Debbie & Lucy More thumbnails ...
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Hello Neely Family (reply)
Sep 18, 2007 19:38 EST by amy_lowe
Dear Debbie, Billy and Lucy,
I am loving hearing all about your overseas adventures and can't wait to see the pics when you get home.
Enjoy yourselves, you're not missing out on much back here (except Floriade!!!).
Take care - I look forward to reading the next instalment!
-Amy
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