Category: Travel
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Wednesday 2 February 2000 Highlights: Cambridge University In a rare display of everything lining up perfectly we managed to get to the Britrail train just on time, leaving at 9.15 am and arriving at Cambridge at 10.10 am. Cambridge is based around the famous University which is made up of several Colleges. Today will visited…
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Tuesday 1 February 2000 Highlights: Westminster Abbey With our alarm clock off at the insistence of Jon after yesterday’s waking, we ended up sleeping though to 2 pm! Not a great way to spend limited time in London. we quickly rushed to Westminster Abbey in order to make the last entrance time of 3 pm…
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Monday 31 January 2000 Highlights: War Cabinet, West End Show (‘Les Miserables’), Harrods, House of Commons. Jon was still suffering from acute jet-lag and wasn’t a happy camper when my alarm went off at 8.45 am. Today we started with a visit to the underground War Cabinet (1940-1945). The whole complex was setup as it…
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Saturday 29 January 2000 and Sunday 30 January 2000 Highlights: Leicester Square, Tower of London, The Globe Theatre Firstly jet-lag hit hard with both Jon and myself waking up at 3 am and unable to get back until about 7.30 am. At least we could watch the Australian Tennis Open, the first time I had…
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Friday 28 January 2000 Highlights: Westminster, St Paul’s Church Evensong performance Well we got into London a little early at 9.30 am. The flight took over 10 hours. I think next time we will check in separately as everyone else had a bonus spare seat. After 80 days travelling together I think a spare seat…
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Thursday 27 January 2000 Highlights: Leaving USA Straight to the airport for an uneventful flight from Los Angels to London (Heathrow) followed by a train trip to gets us to Notting Hill our location for the next few days in a small hotel. It is good to say goodbye to the backpacker hostel for a…
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Wednesday 26 January 2000 Highlights: Venice Beach. We arrived at 4 am and luckily the hostel let us check straight in and crash. The bus trip was mostly fine and I even got some sleep but thank god that is the last overnight bus trip. They save time and money but really knock down your energy…
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Tuesday 25 January 2000 Highlights: Golden Gate Bridge, Girhardelli House Ice cream. For our last day in San Francisco we decided to walk to the Golden Gate Bridge, so called because of the entrance to the bay. We totally misjudged the distance and ended up walking for over 2 hours. I know I felt the…
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Monday 24 January 2000 Highlights: Girhardilli House, Fisherman’s Wharf, Cable Cars We woke to very heavy rain but that is no excuse no to explore. We walked down to Fisherman’s Wharf and split up. Jon visited Alcartz which I skipped having been there only 14 months ago. Instead I explored the local area in particular…
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Sunday 23 January 2000 Highlights: Nothing today. Leaving Los Angeles on the 3 am bus, I’m not sure what we were thinking here, we didn’t get into San Francisco until after 11 am and it was raining heavily. Possibly the worst trip on a Greyhound Bus so far and that is saying something! After arriving…
