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World Traveller: 7 Continents, 90 Countries, 871 Days Overseas

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  • World Trip 2009: Day 45 – Stonehenge and London, England

    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 over 4,000 years. The thing I got from the audio commentary was how much they don’t know! The one thing we do know is that the stones keep a good monthly calendar if the location of the sun at different times of the year. Whoever designed this was clear even by today’s computer assisted standards.

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  • World Trip 2009: Day 44 – Brighton and London, England

    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 pick up our train tickets) we were off for the resort town visit.

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  • World Trip 2009: Day 43 – London, England

    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 Long Room today, same price of £14 however!

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  • World Trip 2009: Day 42 – London, England

    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 Roman and Greek displays were excellent. They had reconstructed a ‘Nereid Temple’ and the coins sections (which included current currency) was very interesting especially for the rulers who put themselves on the coins. Leaving the museum I decided to walk to Buckingham Palace, this meant I got to walk via Regent Street full of high price shops and Piccadilly Circus.

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  • World Trip 2009: Day 41 – London, England

    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 planes, tanks and submarines on display. The next level has information and photos about the secret side of war like the British SAS, MI5 and MI6 and the code breakers. Fascinating stuff which asked hard questions about terrorist in particular and keeping secrets from the public.

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