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Published: August 6th 2007
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Monday 19th March Alas, still no word from Sumitomo today. Had my first experience driving around here, was quite hairy but managed to make it the whole 600m to get down to Sainburys to grab some groceries. After we’d gotten back Em and I decided to go for a jog around the Common (translate - park). It was getting a tad chillsom and after about 5kms on own way home we experienced our first decent snowfall. It was a like big, cold, slow moving, sideways rain drops.
Tuesday 20th March Woohoo!!! Bout time. Got the call that I’d gotten the Sumitomo job! I can finally say goodbye to The Pavement. Cam and I scored some free tickets to see the new Carmen Electra movie “I Want Candy” near Trafalgar Square. We find out the next day, she was at the premiere about 300m down the road. DOH!!
Wednesday 21st March Woohoo!!! Finally got internet at home, it’s all happening now. I headed back to South Kensington in the arvo to meet Em to see a bit more of the Science Museum. We got through another 3 levels but still haven’t seen it all. Tis
a very good place to take kids (if you have some). After leaving we walked out through the very archetypal English, Kensington Park. No leaves on any of the trees yet, but I think that adds to the romanticism. We spot a quite fancy building to our left as we’re strolling down the path and upon closer inspection realise it is the world renowned Royal Albert Hall. After tubing it home, I decide &%!$(MISSING)@ it, and scoured ebay to buy a couple of tickets for Em and I to see my favourite band Muse at Wembley Arena on June 16. It will mean postponing our departure date to head over to Ireland by a couple of days, but this will be a once in a lifetime event that, as a “true Muse fan” I cannot bring myself to miss. Being surrounded by 85,000 screaming Muse fans in one of the most famous venues in the world will be awesome!
Thursday 22nd March I headed off to the Science Museum again today while Em was slavin’ away with the British brats. After a short while I decide to skeetle over to the National History Museum which is just
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Planes, trains & auto's Planes, trains & auto'sdown the road. It houses a shite load of fossils and animalistic artefacts and looks like it was the set of the “Night at the Museum” movie with the massive dinosaur skeleton occupying the grand foyer. One highlight was the animatronics T-Rex which, if I was still a kid, would have given me nightmares for a few weeks. Much like the Mona Lisa, its eyes followed me wherever I walked and as it raised its head to reveal copious amounts of teeth the booming roar went through me like a dose of salts.
Friday 23rd March Probably had a few pints.
Saturday March 24th Off to Oxford!! We hit the road, and after crawling through the London maze we open up the Pug on the motorway. 2 hours later we're there. As Oxfordians don’t appreciate too much traffic through the centre of town (and rightly so) we park up on the outskirts and catch a bus the rest of the way. After a Cappuccino at England’s first coffee house - “The Grand Café”, we walked back to St Mary’s Church, for the finest views of the city. The steeple had a
very narrow winding staircase going up, but the views were definitely worth it. Em decides she wants to move here she likes it so much. I think she’s had enough of London’s chaos already and needs to chill out a bit.
You could chill out very well here, as it’s freezing today and all the scarves and big jackets are out. We left Cam and Nat at a restaurant to defrost while we walked over to the Oxford Botanical Gardens by the river. Some of the flowers were stunning and unlike anything we’d seen before. There were about 5 greenhouses each with different themes along with a large outdoor gardens area.
We walked through town again and up to the Oxford Castle. Unfortunately we’re too late to gain admission but we have a good view of it from a large grassy mound nearby (which had a gate leading down to some cells). We’ll have to come back for the official tour though. It was getting on now so we double-timed it through the covered markets (the look on a young girls face after seeing a few pallets worth of hare’ was priceless) and perused one of the biggest
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Natural History Museum bookshop I’ve ever seen, where we picked up some big wall maps of the UK and Europe to plan our future journeys with.
Well, it was cold and there was lots of walking (bikes would have been very handy) but a good time was had by all and we agreed that we’d have to come back another day to digest a bit more of the Oxford experience.
Sunday March 25th We jumped on the bikes and cycled through Battersea Park and over the Royal Albert Bridge, then on through Chelsea and I was in autophile heaven. Ferrari’s, Porsche’ and a plethora of other sports cars, it seemed grew on trees in this posh suburb, as they were parked and driving around everywhere. I couldn’t resist the urge to get a few pics of the nice ones to add to my collection of tasty morsels. We then hit Kensington Park which adjoins Hyde Park. A quick gander at Kensington Palace (where Di used to hang out) then a ride around to the Princess Di memorial fountain, which wasn’t so much of a fountain as a big water donut. The number of people walking around has definitely increased
since the last Welcome....time we were here and the roller-skate crew were struttin’ their stuff for the passers-by.
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