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I woke up fairly early this morning which was very surprising. Keely took me to San Juan Capistrano where we were planning to visit the mission. It was nice to finally be alone together to catch up on news... not that we really needed to after all the epic emails we sent each other over the past year! We stopped off at Trader Joes, an organic supermarket, and bought some food. San Juan Capistrano was lovely. The historical area was home to the mission we visited as well as an old church and some 19th century houses. The mission was founded [View Full Entry]

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I am now in California. The flight was, predictably, long, boring and uncomfortable as flights generally are. I arrived in LA and had fun and games getting through customs. The airport staff in America seem to regard everyone as a potential terrorist or something and were decidedly unfriendly. In addition to showing my passport I had my photograph taken and my fingerprints scanned, and then instead of finally being free to enter the country I had to join a massive queue... all for the sake of showing my passport to someone else (who made me repeat everything I said twice and [View Full Entry]

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Well we set off for home this morning. On the way we visited Chartwell, the family home of Winston Churchill from 1922 until his death in 1965. The weather was gloomy again but we managed to walk through the gardens to the house before the rain started. We explored the house - most of the rooms were kept decorated as Winston's wife Clementine had arranged and the house still had a very homey feel. It was quite busy and at times we had to walk along behind a queue of other visitors. The house was bought by Churchill for his family [View Full Entry]

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Well I am off to the States soon, but I thought I would kick start my blog with my weekend away, and hopefully get the hang of using this site! The plan was to visit Stonehenge and Avebury today, spend the night with my aunt and travel back on Sunday morning. We woke up to a torrential downpour, but not one to be put off by a bit of good old soggy British weather I insisted we stick to the plan... after all we had three hours in the car ahead of us and the sun might well have put in [View Full Entry]

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