Sunday 21st - Friday 9th January 2008 We'd planned to spend Christmas in England with Alex and so arrived on her doorstep late on the 21st, after a mammoth journey from Vienna via Bratislava, which involved three buses, two trains, a plane and (worst of all) the loss of two bottles of Chrissie booze. Fortunately, we arrived to good old English teacakes, cups of tea and a festive (warm!) lounge room. On Monday morning we were straight into it with a trip with Jamie and Adriana to Brighton (they had arrived from Vienna a couple of days before us). We checked out the beach, the pier, wandered in and out of the shops in the Lanes and had a great lunch at a very English looking pub, while watching an orchestral group playing carols out in
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