We’ve had a great day in Disneyland HK (ending the trip as we began). Those of you considering transit through LA to go to Disneyland should reconsider. HK Disney is great, particularly for little kids. Smaller, but so are the queues, it is much cheaper all round with the Kiwi $ and you don’t [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 9, 2008
London Hong Kong
Hello folks – this is the little lady making another rare appearance on the blog.
The trip from London to Hong Kong tried its best to be a disaster, but we definitely pulled it off in the end. We were delayed making our connecting flight to Frankfurt and watched our three hour stop over turn [...]
January 9, 2008
Happy Anniversary Baby
So we were only away for 6 months all up, but we managed to have all 4 birthdays, xmas and now our wedding anniversary all abroad.
We started the trip on the second day in LA at Disneyland for Jamie’s birthday on the 4th of July (when Charlie was still essentially a baby), and we have [...]
January 8, 2008
Hampton Court Palace
There’s not a lot of point trying to describe this place. It’s one of my favorite buildings and grounds in the world. On our second to last day in London we managed to get the two families in the cars and down to the Palace (only 5 min drive), in what was a [...]
January 8, 2008
Roger and Alan
Finally after much telephone tag we were able to borrow Sarah’s car again and head off to see some dear friends of Mum and Dad’s, Roger and Alan. They live in Chessington (Surrey) on the southern edges of London and the theory is that we should have got there in about half an hour. [...]
January 8, 2008
1066 and all that
With Charlie successfully rescued from the clutches of the evil bathroom, we were able to continue the rest of our trip around the south (albeit a small trip).
Brighton was it’s beautiful cold and bleak looking self (think Coldplay’s iconic Yellow video). We headed off east towards Kent but ended up only making a b-line [...]
January 5, 2008
Sarah & Bruce
As pointed out by Ingrid, this blog has been remiss in not showing our mates in London.
Sarah and Janine go back to high school days, and when Sarah was in the Royal Ballet in Wellington and Janine was doing her PhD at Victoria in Wellington, they were flatmates. I also appeared on the scene [...]
January 4, 2008
Brighton – Fawlty Towers
So we’ve borrowed Sarah’s car to head down Brighton and the seaside, oh we do love to be beside the seaside.
Radio 5 all the way was predicting the snow and we had a scattering of it all the way south. In typical Paul and Janine fashion the easy motorway would have been the quickest [...]
January 3, 2008
London Town
The Hayward – Le Comtes finally got a trip into London on their own today. It was a stunningly cold day, after the mild weather recently it was a shock and put a damper on the outing. Janine (being a woman of few wants) only needed to see Buckingham Palace. We got [...]
January 3, 2008
Jamie’s first big football match
Not having the time or money really to head up to Liverpool to see my beloved and Jamie’s name sake Everton play, I was desperate to get to a game. With Premier League games nigh on impossible to get into, and London having several clubs in the league below that (the championship), it was [...]
