Saturday, September 02, 2006

To Russia with love

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Today marks the first day of Autumn. The weather has certainly started to cool. The cooler temperatures will be handy practice for our Chris...
Monday, August 28, 2006

Bank Holiday weekend

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Public holidays in the UK are generally known as Bank Holidays. Today was the last such holiday until Christmas. I find it odd that the UK h...
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Saturday, August 26, 2006

You wouldn't read about it

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Today's paper made for an interesting read. Aside from the regular current affairs stories there was plenty of trivia to paint an inter...
Friday, August 25, 2006

The month ahead

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Summer is finally starting to wind down. This week we've put a feather duvet back on the bed and endured brief, but daily, rain showers....
Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Caught up in the news

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There’s one story dominating newspaper headlines in London today. Two weeks after the news first broke; eleven people faced court yesterday ...
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Friday, August 18, 2006

South of the Equator

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It's cold down here! I've just spent the last two weeks in the Southern Hemisphere catching up with family and friends, as well as w...
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Homeward bound

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It’s been two weeks since my last post – a brief update from Hong Kong airport while in transit. Since then Garry and I have completed a whi...

Honshu at Shinkansen speed

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Buying a round-the-world air ticket inevitably compels you to maximise the benefits on offer. In our case, we couldn’t simply rush straight ...

Hiroshima meltdown

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We finally reached Hiroshima on Tuesday evening just as a large orange sun was setting over the city’s many hills. This seemed quite fitti...

Castles, temples and coin lockers

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Our second full day in Japan was spent making our way from Hiroshima to Tokyo on the Shinkansen. We stopped twice to tour tourist landmarks ...

Future Metropolis

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Our last day in Japan was spent wandering the world’s most future-oriented metropolis. We started our day with a leisurely lunch at the hote...
Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Hong Kong Stopover

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Prague sculpture We've reached Hong Kong. After a day of traveling from Prague, to Heathrow, then overnight to Asia, we're back in f...
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Monday, July 31, 2006

Gastronomic Prague

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It is 6.45am on Monday morning in Prague. Moments ago a large orange sun rose silently over the Vltava river. It seemed a fitting end to fou...