Month: January 2019
There’s One Final Part to Our Christmas Trip Story
I always fly with Qantas and I’m one of just a few frequent flyer members who joined in the first year of Qantas’ Frequent Flyer Program being established that is still flying at a platinum level. I joined the Frequent Flyer Program in 1984 when the domestic airline, Trans Australia Airlines (TAA), was renamed Australian […]
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Our Last Days in London
We have spent our last two days in London catching up with the last few things that the girls wanted to see. One of these was Buckingham Place and we put this off until yesterday as that was the day that they were changing the guard. We arrived one hour before the parade and the […]
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Welcoming the New Year in London
As we have been finding out, London is a very busy place over the New Year period. Everyone gets right the festivities, even the supervisor of the breakfast restaurant at our hotel. Yesterday was New Year’s Eve. We had lost one of Violet’s joggers somewhere along the way so our first task was to head […]
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Big New Year’s Crowds in London
We arrived in London on Saturday after a pleasant one hour train trip from Amiens to Paris and then a two hour ride on the Eurostar to London. By the time we had taxied from St Pancras Station to our hotel in Kensington, it was juat about dark. Sunrise here is currently at 8.00 am […]
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