Brendan and I went for a walk down to the Shepherd’s bush shops to get him a new cellphone, since his other one is stuffed from the water damage. He left about 2pm to drive down to Southampton / Portsmouth to go flat hunting for the next few days. I caught the tube to Hammersmith and while I was waiting in the station I got a call to say that I have a flat that I really wanted in Marble Arch!!! Yay! How exciting!! I met Irene at Bond Street Station after she finished work later that day and went for [View Full Entry]

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We got up early on Saturday, and drove up in the rental car to Brendan’s Aunty’s place in Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire to pick up our bags from British Airways. We didn’t need to pack anything as all our stuff was already up there! We said hello to his aunty, uncle and cousins, Hazel (7) and Joseph (9) and had a drink. We were finally reunited with our bags but when we opened we found that all our stuff was wet! After sitting wet for 3 weeks, our clothes were mouldy and ruined; Brendan’s phone and camera had condensation on the inside. [View Full Entry]

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Yet another week of formalities, of achieving that much, but still seem to be constantly busy. On Tuesday I went down to the shops to get a card and present for Dad for Fathers day on Sunday and managed to head home just as it started to rain. Surprisingly, it’s not Father’s Day over here so finding something appropriate was a little more difficult than expected. By the time I got home, Matt had returned back from Portugal. I wrote in dad’s card and took it down to the post office to try and get it to New Zealand as soon [View Full Entry]

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We had a bit of a sleep in following our trip Paris, then finished off the last of our film and dropped the film in to be processed (gee, haven’t needed to do that in ages!). While we were out we had lunch at a little café near the local Green and strolled down to the mall to get some hygiene basics, such as toothbrushes and toothpaste, as our good ones were still in our luggage at Heathrow, and we were not allowed to bring liquids, such as toothpaste, back on the plane with us. I spent the rest of the [View Full Entry]

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We got up about 10am, got ready, grabbed our crepe’s and panini’s and walked up to ‘Parc Montsouris’. We had our food on the park bench then had a walk around. We caught the Metro to Chalet and spent the afternoon looking around the Louvre - WOW!!! what an amazing place! There was so many thing to see. We had a look around the ‘Treasury of the World’ Exhibition which was showing ‘Jewelled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals’. It was amazing to see how advanced and intricately beautiful the pieces were, even for things like swards. Check [View Full Entry]

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I got up early, Brendan made us bacon sandwiches for breakfast and I packed my bag. We left early and caught the tube to Heathrow to get there about 12pm. We were forced to stand out side in the threatening rain with 100s of other people until our flight was called. After a few hours we were allowed to go into the terminal and check in (Yay!) While we were waiting in line, we were informed that our flight had been cancelled and we needed to be rebooked on to a different flight and shifted into another tent. We rebooked for [View Full Entry]

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The next few days was more of a week of formalities. Following a bit of a sleep in from our Greece trip, Leo headed back up to Cambridge. I showed Suz our photos and after having a Magners at The George that evening, we got into a bit of a cleaning and maintenance mode. We constructed a scaffold out of chairs and a bed-side table looking thing to reach the smoke detector in the hall way and then started attacking the lime scale in the bathroom basin. I finally managed to contact my bank in NZ to start the ball rolling [View Full Entry]

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We woke up to the cleaning lady at the door. I read for a little while and finally hauled myself out of bed at about 1pm. We walked down to the main road and had lunch at one of the beachside café’s where we bumped into Kate and John doing the same thing. I headed off down the road to the internet place to once again try and sort out my money transfer from New Zealand, while Leo met the others at the beach. I had a look at a few shops on the way and by the time I got [View Full Entry]

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We struggled to get up and had to rush down to the bus stop at the far end of the shops. Thankfully the bus was also on Island time and arrived about 15 minutes late. We jumped on headed into Corfu Township on the east coast of the Island. We had a walk along the waterfront and found a nearby café for brunch. We wandered through the township and weaved our way through the narrow roads and alley ways between the tall, but very old buildings. There were definitely resemblances between the old Corfu Township, and the old township on the [View Full Entry]

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Neither of us got any sleep as it was too hot and just as you almost passed out, mosquito’s would buzz around you head and wake you up! We got ready and headed down to the Jetty to catch our cruise boat. However, we had no idea where to catch it from! We hung around the marina for a while, but there was no sign of the boat. We walked down the road a little and then bumped into Kate and John on the way. Thankfully we got there just in time! We later found there was a giant sign saying [View Full Entry]

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