After overcoming confusions about the public transport network in London compared to the places we had familiarised ourselves with in Europe, we made it to Kim and Dave's place in London. Kim took the day off and gave us a whirlwind tour of the outside of the big London sites - the Tower Bridge, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Downing St, Trafalgar Square, the Natural History Museum - an outing that made us all thirsty, and so we then went to the pub to warm up before meeting Bec after work after she had recently moved back from Melbourne. Kim ensured that we sampled a fair selection of wines (although they were mainly from New Zealand!). On Saturday, Kim and Dave took us to Cambridge for the day. Nobody seemed too keen to have me drive our
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