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17 October 2003
Kim’s parents, Pat and Fiona, came to Downham Market today and we had an outing together to Duxford which is famous for its aviation museum, officially known as the Duxford Imperial War Museum. The journey took over an hour and we arrived before lunchtime, so we grabbed lunch before having a good wander around the […]
16 October 2003
Leaving Spain Our Spanish adventure finishes today and we head back to London and then to Downham Market in Norfolk. We have part of the morning free before our 1300 flight to London Heathrow. We settled our bill with the hostal before breakfast. They accept cash or card, so I thought I’d check if they […]
3 October 2003
We did a bit of sightseeing in London today. Our first stop was St Paul’s cathedral which we tried to reach on the Circle Line. Getting on the tube heading in the wrong direction, the journey took forever. Once we got there, we realised that they charge GBP6 pp for entrance. It’s quite a new […]
2 October 2003
We woke at 0300 and with the aid of sleeping medication, we slept till 0800. That was a total of 13h30! Stuart Hotel’s continental breakfast was very good and we filled up before heading out. We took the tube to Richmond station where Kim’s parents picked us up, with Kim’s aunt Eileen in the car […]
1 October 2003
I had 1h sleep on this flight, making a total of 3h for the entire journey of about 24h from Auckland to London. Finally, we landed at Heathrow at 1105 and pulled into Terminal 3, a horrible terminal which involved a very long walk to the tube which would take us to our hotel at […]