Okay, so it's been about a month since my last update. Partly due to lack of blogging diligence, partly due to my severed laptop power cord that left me laptopless for a while. But to summarize, here are the highlights of the latest based on the pictures I have on my camera....there are lots! Enjoy....
1. Weekend in Cornwall
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| Took the night bus to Newquay where our host, a native Englishman, Jim, picked us up. Still dawn in this picture. |
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| Snuck a picture of Jim and Pheroze pulled over for photo op on the way to their house in the country. |
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| Their garden |
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| Walk in the village past a 13th century church/graveyard |
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| Me Jim and Suzie in front of 15th century mansion, Prideaux Place, still lived in by the same family, passed down for ages! |
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| 1592 - wowzers! |
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| Tintangel - on our way to see the castle ruins where King Arthur once ruled! |
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| I see it! |
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| Our wonderful hosts |
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| Merlin's cave ohhhhh ahhhh |
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| Cornish pasty time. I'll have a mint lamb please |
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| Cornish pub with lots of character! |
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| ...complete with pub-cat Millie who likes to curl up by your side as you enjoy a local brew |
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I wanted to take a picture of the barn outside our bedroom window and caught our host outside as well.
What a creepy guest I am! And posted it as well anyways haha |
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| Snow in November! Walking along the cliff sides. |
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| I LOVED the old country home we stayed at. This was the bathroom door.... |
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| ...that only closes with this old key (looked like the key the stepmother locks Cinderella in her room with from the Disney movie - love it!) |
2. Concert
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| Enormous lineup for Nandos. Which is ridiculously popular all over London and we're not really sure why. We want to tell people it's really not that cool. |
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| The enormous 02 arena where we won tickets to see Arcade Fire through the Guardian newspaper! |
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SUCH an awesome concert. Best concert we've ever been to actually!
Had to capture a bit of this on video. Anyone who knows me knows I love ribbon wands!
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3. Pheroze's Birthday
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| 40 pounds worth of food for 10 pounds (Groupon deal of course!) |
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| SO yummy! We miss sushi a lot. |
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| This was the best musical we have ever seen. It was unbelievably good. I want to buy the soundtrack. |
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| Below the stage where the orchestra plays. I liked that everyone's pay cheques were sitting on the conductor's stand. And that the conductor mouthed the words to most of the songs as he conducted with a big smile on his face. Obviously loves his job! |
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| Front row, centre seats! Streamers landed on us at the beginning of the show! |
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| This was the map of Oz that was projected at intermission. Loved it. |
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| Skating at the Natural History Museum with Brandon and Laura. Absolute zoo - they cram as many people as they can on the ice and everyone skates around in circles nearly running into each other. Also, they have this guy in a vest whose job is to go around and help people get up who fell down. |
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| both a little off balance |
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| Picture from behind. Too risky to turn and look at the camera. |
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| Calthorpe Arms pub mmmm |
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| School buds |
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| The beginning of the end. Birthday shots galore. |
4. Christmas Season!
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| Tree in the foyer of our building |
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| Love this bag. |
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| The doorway to Hamley's toy store. We took a brief tour inside - insanely plugged with people. |
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| Free scarves from Austin Reed! |
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| Nothing like a Christmas season testicular cancer run down Regent St. |
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| Checking out and reacting to the daily headlines at Marks and Spencer |
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| Mmmm grocery store fast food. We also discovered we could get a take-home 3 course meal for 2 and a bottle of wine for 10 pounds...which we then exploited haha. |
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| We were out on the weekend and ran into this sale where you fill a bag with as much stuff as you can for 10 pounds. |
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| Standing in line for the sale - and blending in with the locals haha what a nerd! |
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| Pic from the double decker on the way to work in the morning |
