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posted by NeilGlenys
September 18, 2011
Friday Glenys - Today we walked around to the Natural History Museum which is such a beautiful building, I was more impressed with it than the contents. We have to contend with a number of school groups, who are very noisy.  Many of the kids s...
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posted by NeilGlenys
September 15, 2011
Thursday. Today we were touring again. The young guy doing the hotel pickups (not the driver) has an accent we recognise.  "What's your home town?".  "Tauranga, in New Zealand", comes the reply.   We went to Bath then Salisbury Ca...
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Bath - Roman Baths from 'London - Day 5'
posted by NeilGlenys
September 14, 2011
Wednesday. No 'touring' today!   Take some timeout, after breakfast, to walk down to Earls Court where there is a Laundromat and get some much needed washing done.  We have done a bit as we have gone along however that is really o...
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A mornings work - Earls Court from 'London - Day 4'
posted by NeilGlenys
September 14, 2011
Tuesday. Today we have a Greater London coach tour (Evans Tours).  The tour includes a guided tour of St Paul's Cathedral, then watching the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, followed by a Pub lunch.  We have a little bit of free ...
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posted by NeilGlenys
September 14, 2011
We get off the ferry at Dover and are on English soil!  Unfortunately we missed the 1.30pm sailing as though we were there in plenty of time, English Immigration & Customs, based in Calais, were being a little more thorough with their inspec...
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Trafalgar Square from 'London - Arrival and Day 2'
View up the street from the Brandenburger Tor from Brandenburg Gate, Germany
The crew from 'Queenstown Snowboarding Day 2'
Same shade of red - and Carol was really cold from 'Port MacDonnell 13/02/2010'
the sun fountain at Peterhof rotated on its axis from 'Water Galore - St Petersburg (Russia)'
Views of walls from 'It was worth the wait'
St. Georges Chapel from 'Nice pad Queenie!'