Category: World Trip 2009
A 52-day trip covering five countires; USA, Egypt, England, Belgium and Australia between 22 May 2009 and 12 July 2009
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Facebook Photos 1, Photos 2 The London leg is now over, I suppose I should call it the Brussels, London & Brighton leg but it was 95% in London. London has had a heat wave over here, most days over 26, normally I’d make fun of that been called a heatwave especially given the 38+…
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Monday 6 July 2009 Highlights: Saying farewell I said goodbye to London today. Jon actually decided to get to his school a little late and ride with me on the Tube almost all the way to Heathrow Airport. Jon is a very good friend and I know how lucky I am to know him, which…
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Sunday 5 July 2009 Highlights: Ancient Stonehenge, London Walking Tour – Ghost Walk Jon had organised to borrow Jeanne’s car so we could head out to Stonehenge for a day trip. It took about 2-3 hours to get there including our lunch/pit stop. It’s amazing to visit a site that is believed to have been around for…
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Saturday 4 July 2009 Highlights: The West End Show (Billy Elliot), Royal Pavilion As Jeanne has a new posting starting soon she needs to find new accommodation so we all headed down to Brighton for the day. Jon insisted that I had to visit the Royal Pavilion. After some problems at Victoria station (no machines to…
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Friday 3 July 2009 Highlights: Lords – The Home of Cricket After listening to my team Essendon lose badly on the ABC via the internet I headed off to the world famous Lord’s Cricket Ground for a tour. As there was a match on (Middlesex vs Surrey) we didn’t have access to the pavilion or…
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Thursday 2 July 2009 Highlights: Buckingham Palace, Duke of York Column Today has a crazy busy day in the heat of London (I’m not joking about the heat, air conditioning doesn’t exist here!). I started the day at the British Museum, I mostly skipped the Egyptian section since I had been there recently but the…
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Wednesday 1 July 2009 Highlights: Imperial War Museum Today has supposed to be an easy day, starting with me just posting the rest of my Egypt photos online and booking the Perth leg accommodation. However in the afternoon I visited the Imperial War Museum. The ground level is in its own way very fun, old…
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Tuesday 30 June 2009 Highlights: Greenwich Old Royal Naval College, Jack the Ripper London Walk Today I had an enjoyable trip up the Thames in a cruise boat, starting at Tower Hill we went right under the London Tower Bridge, past the HMS Belfast and past a pub made out of the Mayflower (the famous…
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Monday 29 June 2009 Highlights: London Walking Tours – “London’s Secret Village” and “Gaslight Tour” Today was my London Walks day. First I started with “London’s Secret Village” which is a visit around an area called Clerkenwell the highlight being visiting the place that William Wallace was killed. However the Bartholomew Church (the oldest one)…
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Sunday 28 June 2009 Highlights: Trafalgar Square, National Gallery The plan was to go to an outlining suburb or village so I decided to head out to Hampstead for the Old Hampstead Walk which was scheduled at 10 am however I failed to get there in time 😦 This was not a great start so after a…
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