We took a late flight out of London on Thursday and arrived in New York full of anticipation. Both Liani and I had wanted to visit New York and were both very excited about our four days in the big apple. We jumped a yellow cab into Manhattan and arrived at our very beautiful hotel - Le Parker Méridien overlooking Central Park. As it was our first stay in New York I had requested a room with a view over Central Park - the next morning we weren't disappointed and woke to what is one of the most amazing views in [View Full Entry]

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Happy Christmas to everyone!!! I hope everyone has had a lovely christmas wherever you may be.... We miss you all and wish everyone a happy and healthy 2007 Lots of Love and Best Wishes from Kim and Liani in cold cold London xxxxx [View Full Entry]

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After two weeks away in Europe with Mum and Liani visiting her family in South Africa, and one week in a small below ground studio in Wilsden Green, we finally moved in to our new flat in Hammersmith! Initially when I first saw this place I wasn't at all taken by it. There was way too much green carpet for my liking and I thought it felt small. Ummm, dont really know who that person was, because I now love our flat! The day we moved in the removalists bought all our boxes and Luke and Carmel arrived from their two [View Full Entry]

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Day 10 & 11 Manarola Cinque Terre Of all the places I didn’t want it to rain it was the cinque terre. And what do ya know, it poured!!! Cinque Terre stands for the ‘five lands’ five small traditional fishing villages just south of Genoa on the northern Italian coast. They are Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza and Monterosso. I had chosen to stay in Manarola and booked a bed and breakfast for mum and I. Da Baranin was up the top of quiet a large hill, but we managed to make it with our packs on. Our room was small but [View Full Entry]

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Day 5 & 6 Fussen - Luzern 19th - 20th Sept We backtracked on the train to Buchloe, and changed for our trip through the Bavarian region into Switzerland. Train travel in this part of the world is a very enjoyable way to travel and to see the beautiful scenery passing by. We changed again at Zurich and caught the Intercity service to Luzern. Our accommodation was in the old town which is gorgeous. Liani and I had visited Switzerland last year and had fallen in love with Luzern, but in the winter, so it was nice to see it in [View Full Entry]

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Day 1 After spending the last week in transition at an apartment in Willesden Green, Mum and I were off to Berlin for the start of our trip through Europe, whilst Liani was off to South Africa to visit her family. We headed off from Stanstead Airport flying Air Berlin which turned out to be one of the most comfortable flights I have had in Europe. At Berlin we caught the bus into town and found our hostel, East Seven not far from all the main sights. After finding some supplies we had a nice dinner not far from our hostel, [View Full Entry]

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Mum and I set off from Angel to connect with our tour bus which would take us to Stonehenge, Bath, through the Cotswolds and into Stratford upon Avon to see the birthplace of William Shakespeare. It was a lovely trip through some beautiful parts of Southwest England. Stonehenge is one of Englands most popular tourist sites and always crowded! The 5000 year old stone circle remains a mystery as to what it originally was - a huge astronomical calander or a place of sun worship and sacrifice? Construction began in 3000BC and consisted of four distinct stages of construction. The first [View Full Entry]

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Santorini had been a destination I had always wanted to visit, the beautiful architecture of the cyclade islands and the deep blue of the Mediterranean. Unfortunately our flight out of Heathrow was cancelled. It being the last flight of the night, meant that Mum, myself and Liani were put up at the Radisson Heathrow for the night, rather than arriving in Santorini the next morning. It wasn’t until the next afternoon that we finally got a flight out of London and were on our way. Because we hadn’t shown up for our connecting flight out of Athens, Aegean Air had cancelled [View Full Entry]

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Mum and I were off to through France for a week taking in Paris, Chamonix in the Alps and finally onto Nice in the French Riviera. We started in Paris and had three nights at Le Regent in Montmartre where Liani, Heath, Luke and I had stayed on an earlier trip. The city of Paris is beautiful, there is something so charming and romantic about the city of lights. On the first day we decided to take in the open top bus tour to give Mum an overall view of the city. Although I had been there before, I saw lots [View Full Entry]

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Heres a collection of photos for my beautiful Mum and her adventures whilst visiting us all in London. Enjoy Mum!! xxxx [View Full Entry]

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