How do you solve a problem like Amelia?

After 5 hours of sleep it was time to wake up again and get ready to head to the airport as Mark and I were traveling to Zurich for three days.

We arrived at London City Airport, which is a really tiny airport with one short runway. The planes at the airport were called RJ8’s. They are smaller than the domestic planes in Australia.  It did not take long to check in and get to the departure lounge. Not long after we sat down it was time to board the plane. We were right uner the wings and close to the engines, so we were in for a noisy trip. After everyone was settled we taxied down to the end of the runway and turned around. Once ready for take off the pilot revved the engines and we took off like a thunderbolt! Having spent time in a big plne it was very bouncy and shaky in the littler planes and it took me a while to settle into the rhythm of the turbulance. Read more »

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Well today was the big day, the reason for the trip.

We woke about 7am and had showers. A car picked us up around 9 to take us to the station. We met up with Brenton’s parents, Sister and Brother-in-law. We all bundled onto a train and travelled to Victoria Station. At Victoria we then changed to the Wimbledon line and got off at Fulham Station. A very brief walk from the station and we were at the Fulham Town Hall where the Civil Partnership ceremony would take place. We were directed to a small room to wait with other guests that had already arrived and it was not long till we were invited into the ceremony room. Read more »

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Well today was going to be the day that Mark and I had to travel around London alone. The thought was a bit scary, but Brenton made sure we had every possible toll for navigating ourselves around.

From Brenton’s house we hopped onto a red bus to take us to the station. From the station we caught the ‘Tube’ to South Kensington and we changed there to a train that was heading to Wimbledon. We hopped off at the end of the line that was Wimbledon Station and began our walk to the All England Lawn Tennis and Bowls Club. The streets were lined with beautiful trees and the houses were huge, with big driveways and three cars in every driveway (mostly BMW’s and Marcedes), so straight away we knew it was a well to do suburb. We eventually turned into a street and the large fascade of centre court appeared out of nowhere. Read more »

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I’m still catching up on my writing. We are doing so much all the time that I’ve found it hard to get some time to do this.

Anyway…

Well day five Brenton and Lubor had planned to take us out to the country to a community known as the Cotswolds. We headed off at aboout 9am towatds Oxford. The freeways are incredibly busy with vehicals moving lanes constantly and wiithout indicators. It took about an hour to get to Oxford. It’s a very pretty town with the University dominating the scenery. The first town we visited was Chipping Campden. Read more »

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It’s been a few days since I posted and there is alot to tell, so I will do this post in stages so that no one gets lost!

Day Four was our trip from Brighton to London to spend time with Brenton and Lubor. We left early in the morning for London, getting to the train station at 8:30. We didn’t wake John and Aaron and hence got out breakfast at the station. We walked down the platform looking in the carriages for vacant seats and found one that had about three rows vacant. We sat down feeling pretty chuffed that we had found such great seats when we noticed a big sign on the window indicating that the seats were reserved for First Class passengers only! We contemplated playing dumb, but the chances are that our honesty would give us away! So we stood the whole way there, which was not long and it took an hour for us to arrive at Victoria Station in central London. Read more »

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