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Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London » Crouch End March 2nd 2008

So I must start off by saying, in London we had a gobsmacking good time!! Our tour director Joel kept saying "your about to have another gobsmacking moment. Do you say gobsmacking in America?" "No," we all said, but its a cute word anyway, which I have adopted into my vocabulary. :-) Today, was not as cold as yesterday, thank goodness, I have been freezing! Today we didn't know it was Mothers Day, or "Mum's Day" until we went down to the resturant for breakfast. The breakfast is pretty good at the hotel, eggs, bacon, toast, cereal, the usual. We met at 9am for our first three hour bus tour. Today we had a different tour guide and not Joel, his name was Keith, and he did an excellent job driving us around telling us all ... read more
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Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London » Crouch End February 17th 2006

Well - for the first time in my life I'm officially unemployed. Not so sure it's sunk in just yet, but it'll probably grow on me. In fact, I think I like it already. AAAAnyway...the trip....we leave in 3days for Buenos Aires and successfully emptied the flat of most of our worldly posessions the other day following a 12-hr packing stint driven by late delivery of boxes and an early arriving lorry to take the stuff to storage (Storing.com is recommended - you don't have to lug your kit downstairs and they're very good value). Just the final run through to go after tomorrow night's leaving party at Quinn's in Kentish Town and then we're outta here. You get kind of sick of all the leaving drinks - there won't be any great appetite for the ... read more




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