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After a very nice sleep-in following a late night at Warner Brothers, we did a short reconnaissance of the local area and the Tube on Tuesday, and managed to get in some time at London's Natural History Museum. We didn't have long there, but the boys
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We've just had a wonderful four days in London! Now for a flurry of blog activity as we try to catch up before we head to Ireland for ten days... On Monday, we left the home of our friends near Cambridge and headed to Leavesden (northwest London) for
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Here are some more photos from our wander around Cambridge on Saturday... A highlight was getting to go into Peterhouse College. This is where Malc once studied, which is why we could visit. He just went in first and said he was a former student, and then they let us
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On the weekend, we stayed in a village near Cambridge with our friends Malcolm and Esther and their sons Pablo and Mario. Here's an interview with J, F and B about our punting adventure in Cambridge on Saturday with Malcolm and Pablo! What is a punt? F: A
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On Friday, before we set off to stay with our next lot of friends in Cambridge, we headed into Oxford again with the aim of seeing a bit more and doing a walking tour. It was a chilly — and occasionally rainy — day, but we still managed to achieve both of
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More haikus! We're three weeks in already! Day 15 • 19 Sept • Tallinn to Helsinki to Worthing Twenty-three hour day. Too tired to make a haiku. Refer to line one. Day 16 • 20 Sept • Worthing Arundel Castle. Sieges, skins, salt galleons— It's another world! Day 17 • 21
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On Wednesday, while based at our friends Bryce and Nikki's place, we headed into Oxford to visit The Story Museum. Before we got there, though, we stopped at Alice's Shop. This is where the real-life Alice, whom Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland was written
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After buying discounted 12-month family passes to the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, we managed to visit on Monday and Tuesday (not quite 12 months), which was well worth it. The main (initial) intent was to see Nelson's famous HMS Victory (from the battle of Trafalgar), but the highlight was
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One of the reasons we've had a bit of a dip in blog activity recently is because we've been catching up with lots of old friends in the southeast of England. Back in 2007–2008, we lived here for a year and made so many good
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On Friday, our first full day in the UK, our friends Mike and Jo took us to Arundel Castle. This is a massive, almost 1000-year-old castle that has been home to the Dukes of Norfolk and their ancestors (the current Duke is the 18th one) for more than 850 years.
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Technically it was a 26-hour day (24 hours plus the two hours we gained by changing timezones), but I'm talking about how long B and I were awake for. We woke up at 3:50am on Thursday in Tallinn and didn't get to bed until almost