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In 2009, two people decided to go on an adventure.
In what is somewhat a disappointment, they did this without a phone booth that travelled through time.
That said, there are a number of interesting things that will make it an adventure. Firstly, they are travelling during the ominously named Global Financial Crisis. Secondly, they’re travelling during what the World Health Organisation has now named a Global Pandemic of Swine Flu*. Lastly, they’re going to visit a nuclear wasteland.
Check in here to see our updates of our trip to London, Paris, Berlin, Kiev in the Ukraine and New York!
*Note: while Em and Lachlan aren’t worried about Swine Flu, they are worried how all the countries around the world are reacting.
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London, Stonehenge and Paris, oh my!
Hey hey!
Long time no blog, we know, but as we’re about to rush out for another day in Paris we thought we’d quickly bring you up to speed.
The first of the photos are up, click through from any on the left hand side of the page and you can browse backwards. I’ll hopefully have them organised in sets and collections tonight and will post a link here when I do.
As you can tell, the secret adventure Em mentioned below was a day trip to Bath, the medieval village of Lacock and Stonehenge, where we got to actually go inside the stone circle! (Em: !!!!!)
The next day we went shopping - first hunting out the only Flat White coffee in London (Em: it was pretty good. Not great. But the best coffee I will get this side of Sydney. Why? Why?!? It makes no sense) then an awesome nerd store recommended by Mark, before spending the rest of the day in Camden markets. (Em: yes, I found the “original” docs store, and yes, they had the exact boots I wanted. But since I can buy them online from the US for half the price, I declined paying £130 for them.)
(Cassie – we didn’t get you anything in Camden. We were going to get you the Boots cream, but £20?! Sorry!)
On our final full day in London, which just happened to be Em’s birthday, we spent the entire day exploring the British Museum before going on ‘scary’ Dark London and Jack the Ripper tour, which was brilliant. We ended the night with a late dinner at the Sherlock Holmes pub – Toad in the Hole and Spotted Dick, what could be better?
On the 9th we flew to Paris! Our journey was… interesting. I convinced Em to take them British Airways up on the offer to transfer us, if they needed to, to a later flight in return for about £100. However, they didn’t need us and we ended up having to run through Heathrow’s new Terminal Five in order to make our original flight. (Em: Oh, yea. I think I had blocked this out. Turns out I am stressed enough in airports without having to make a run for it. I should point out, though, that I wasn’t in it for the money. I didn’t like the idea of us going ahead of someone who urgently needed to go somewhere, and they had completely overbooked the flight. Why would they do that? We had nowhere else to go, plus if we got on the later flight, I could hang around the airport a bit more, which I like).
Meanwhile, Terminal Five? More like Terminal Fine! It’s awesome!
In the few days since arriving in Paris we’ve wandered the streets, seen Notre Dame, eating copious food consisting heavily of bread and cheese, and yesterday we’ve visited the Louvre (I’m going back for another full day later this week though.)
Today, we’re off to see the Arcades!
Love to you all,
~Lachlan
