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Heading over your way
Bags are packed and we're ready to fly-heard weather has turned a bit cooler-see if you can warm it up for us. DD is getting bumper news and loving it

Howdy Happy Travellers.
What a WOW of a time you two are having and you write about it so well it is like being there. Pleased to see Murray is enjoying his travels again, Shorn says Hi to him and is looking forward to his next venture also

No more complaining about the heat please...this morning it is 2 degrees in Auckland and our front steps were iced over. Its Auckland, we dont get ice!!!! I would do anything to swap this cold for some unbearable heat....even if it is the tube in London squashed in at rush hour!

I warned you about SoHo! :-) I used to walk thru Picadilly Circus almost every day to get my lunch while I was at work and I *never* got tired of it :-D

Abbey Road
Very surprised you can not remember the name of the album Grahame. Looks like you two have really planned this trip to the n'th degree. Can't wait for the next enthralling episode.

Jeremy Kyle is on in NZ - at around 11am on Channel 2 I think...and some of the trash they have on there do come to blows at times! :-) The street looks *exactly* like the street I used to live on in Leytonstone (also out in the "East End"). ASDA is an awesome supermarket - the range of fruit and veges you can get at all times of the year from all over Europe and Africa was something I never got used to. And being able to buy bottles of spirits at the supermarket too!

Poor old Dad aye....scammed by the dodgy old Russians. Very glad to hear that you had followed Ma's advice though and the joke was *almost* on the pickpocketers :-) And the dude at the airport in Dusseldorf MUST have been Belgian or something coz I *swear* German's with a sense of humour are an urban myth!! If you find one, knock it on the head and have it stuffed to donate to a museum!!

Damn!
Oh dear, sorry to hear about your losses! Lucky it was only two days of photos and nobody got hurt in its disappearance! I got a great deal on my new camera in London....there is a a street with cheap electronics shops on it so will ask Cormac where it was but from memory it was in the West End, not far off Oxford St.

Brent and I have the theory that if you made eye contact with someone in Russia (back in the day), you ran the risk of being dobbed in by your *comrade* for doing something you never did and then next thing you know the KGB comes knocking at your door :-P Maybe old habits are hard to shake!

Stoked for the come-back of the blog. And adventures, adventures aye? I can just picture you two with your suitcases and backpacks going all over the show on the Moscow Metro. At least the London tube shouldn't be a mission now that you've accomplished that! *Touch wood*

I *LOVE* the photos! And you got one of a camel! Dad, is that a t-shirt on your head???

GPS
You need to get a GPS unit asap. Uncle Doug used the stars. From a family of great navigators you're letting the side down.