Cliff
Time has been taken up with finding SIM cards--chasing round shops where I thought I'd left my 'phone behind (it was in my bag all the time!) --walking between my cousin's house and Sydenham, shopping etc etc. Anyway, yesterday I went by train to
London 2014
A final filling of water bottles at Sydney and Cathay Pacific gave us a smooth ride to Hong Kong, accompanied by a very excited friend, Lucy, travelling back to Kent to see schoolfriends for the fist time in 6 years. At Hong Kong Lucy and Mary found a body massage
London 2014
A friendly message for the friends who purposefully check this blog each week, as opposed to the approx 1500 who just find it accidentally.......... We travel to London leaving Sunday Australian time and the next blog entry will be from there, probably Monday night UK time or Tuesday morning Australian
Family
Back home to brilliant weather here in Sydney, we must thank all of YOU for so many things these past 6 weeks. First thanks to Craig and the children for letting Alison come with us. To Matt and neighbour Kylie; Matt looking after our cars (I haven't looked
Family
Sydenham, where Jacqui and Tom live, is a restored inner southeast suburb, densely populated and very multicultural. I was amazed how quiet it was (for the number of people) and the lack of graffiti or rubbish. It was cleaner than Caringbah. My cousin Keith, living nearby, tells me there is
Family
A walk in Europe is never boring if you know (or look for) a little history or natural history. Today Jacqui and Tom took us to Tonbridge in Kent--famous for it's oast houses (no pic unfortunately) for a purposeful walk for two hours or more, by the
Europe 2013
Friday night Michael joined us at Jacqui and Tom's (Mr and Mrs. Housden )for a very nice meal. By convenient coincidence, only a 20 minute walk separates Jacqui and Tom from my cousin Keith and his Australian wife, Petrea, in Forest Hill, so I visited them first thing
Europe 2013
In the near heartland of London we find parks-astonishing that so much land remains for the public good, resisting the pressure from developers . We rejoined Jacqui and Tom today and they took us to the famous Crystal Palace Broadcasting tower, the trees and the dinosaur park and a small,
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A plaque reminds us that croquet was first established in this splendid house--the best example of pure Jacobean architecture in Britain! Built in the early 1600's, the owners and subsequent generations were neither nobility nor wealthy, so the house never got altered, or attacked in the Cromwell
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Some pics from her stay in Penrith and their boat trip.
Europe 2013
While Mary attended her college reunion in Penrith, I drove to Croxley, near Watford, where friends Rilla and Shirlaw live, near the Grand Union Canal and some lovely woodlands. I met with Marion, we were at the same school 50 years ago. I insisted she be pictured with her BMW
Europe 2013
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