Blogs from Surrey, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 40

Well, here I am. Millions of hours of flights (slight exaggeration), and passport control has let me in! Silly silly people! The airport departure was as emotional as expected. Thank you to those who wanted to come down but understood my selfishness in only wanting the direct family. Little neice Mikayla was the most in control, simply repeating "bye bye tracey", as she had done for several weeks. I felt for the person sitting next to me on the flight as I sniffled through most of the kms to Sydney. A look in the mirror once there revealed that tears had sent mascara running down my face - how attractive! No wonder the flight attendants gave such sympathetic looks. A long wait in the customs line in Sydney with a massive group of Japanese students ahead ... read more

Hey Dudes, I have since returned home to England from Fiji, but not before stopping in the US of A and it's large state (well I suppose they are all relatively large to English counties) of California - sometimes shortened (is that a word?) to "CA" in prose...Anyhow, time was a factor from flying from Fiji to California. Crossing the International Date Line (as you do), I was forced into reliving 9 hours of the same day, not on the plane, but in America. My first task was to have my index fingers scanned, which I managed to make complicated by failing to press hard enough on the touch pad! and then a cheesy photo, taken by passport control, using a small "web-cam looking" device! I was heading to San Diego from Los Angeles' LAX airport ... read more

Bonjour , ca va? Moi bien merci. Yes i feel like im there already by this time tommorow though ill be boarding flight France 101 (or sumthin like that) next stop Paris. Am really keen to get some surfin done down the south west. Florence (my girlfriend) has booked for us,a train to Biarittz and hire car from there. We are goin campin on the coast for about ten days and then we head back through Bordeaux. Will keep y'all posted. On Sunday (last) had a few rugby trials , we failed to score in any of the matches so never gave ourselves a chance of winning. On the positive side we all had little game time together before and we improved after each game. Ive been named in the 1st's squad which is good ... read more

Hi. Just thought I would add some more pictures for the sake of it. The following photos are from Kingston on Thames, (Surrey) which is about 40 minutes South West of London on the overland train. I went out there for the day just before I left London, to see where my family history lies. One picture is of the house where my great grandmother was born in 1895, & where she lived with her family until they moved to New Zealand. It was nice to see because she didn't die until she was 97, so I knew her for a great deal of my life. It was incredible to find the house still there &, although obviously renovated over the years, also in good condition. I later went to Hampton Court Palace which was about ... read more

July 17th 2005 Godalming, Surrey, England. Life becomes almost laughably idyllic here in my little corner of the world, as I build an easy-going, comfortable rapport with my client/couple and we slide into something vaguely resembling a routine. There's still a never-ending assortment of people - nurses, physiotherapists, doctors, family, staff, tour groups, visitors - always coming in and out, but that's no longer as disorientating as it was initially. In fact, it's nice to always be busy. Some home-caring assignments can probably become very lonely and monotonous. Autumn is almost here, but until a week or so ago we would go down to the fruit gardens almost every day and pick raspberries, strawberries, gooseberries, red currants, and so forth. It was all very homespun and sweet. I have developed a mad craving for raspberries, which ... read more