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| Great way to travel! |
Early start today with a 5:30 wake up and a trek through the
busy streets of Paris even at 7:00 AM.
The morning commuters must be nuts, road rage would be a common
occurrence in my world if I had to deal with this everyday. Once again the kids are great at being
organized to be ready to go and by 6:45 and this gives us a needed advantage as
we soon find out. Once we hit the
station to catch the train we literally take about 30 minutes to pass through
customs and get ready to board which only leaves us about 10 minutes to board
and get seated for our trip to London.
It is another rainy day in Paris and once we are seated on the Eurostar
it starts to pour, thankfully we are dry and the kids, although tired, are excited
to be moving on to London. They
have been a great group to travel with and I would certainly take them anywhere
again. I know my last group of 50,
who if they are reading this blog during our latest excursion, will be upset to
hear that the 2013 group is the best travelling group so far(knock knock). In defense of the 2012 group, 50 people
over 19 people, gives the smaller group an unfair advantage on size alone, that
being said I retract my earlier statement and say that I would travel with both
groups anywhere again! Maybe as a
retirement gift, both groups can travel with me to Europe in 2026, oops that
was earliest retirement up until 3 weeks ago, so the trip will probably be
scheduled for 2076 when I retire based on the new provincial pension plan. I hope that at 105 I will still be able
to keep up to the youngsters that Jordan and Charlie when they are about 80……
We have just entered the “Chunnel” as it is affectionately
known and this is certainly a great way to travel and I hope to do it again
someday. We should be in London in
a short period(about 1:30) and will be heading to our hotel near Wembley and
then on to the city center of London for a day of excitement. We have a
relatively relaxing day in London planned today, mostly because of the early
departure time and distance of travel, but it will be a great day
nonetheless. Signing off for
now…..kids are great and they will be home with you soon…until later from
“Under the Sea” well under the channel really….
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| From our hotel!!!! |
Ok I am back…when I just read what I had written previously
I just noticed I said “at our hotel near Wembley”
well if we were any closer we’d be sleeping at
midfield!!!!
I mean that, we are
about a driver and a wedge away from one of the most famous stadiums in the
world.
When we arrived today we
couldn’t believe it and then our driver said he was surprised we had rooms here
because there is a soccer friendly tomorrow between Engalnd and
Chile…What???
Well we are
currently looking into tickets and will know tomorrow, they seem to think it
won’t be a problem as it is not sold out and the tickets are going for
cheap!!!
The entire group is going
to go together for another once in a lifetime experience, we all can’t wait,
although not huge football fans(yes I am a HUGE American football fan, but you
can’t say soccer over here…it’s a national crime I think) many of us are sports
fans and this will probably never happen again!
I will let you all know if it works out!!!
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| Wembley at night |
So back to our tour….short blog again tonight because of our
travel today and other than Piccadilly and Wembley today was a day of touring
and seeing what London has to offer.
People continue to ask me when I travel and when I return, what places
do I like the most. I often respond that Belgium is my favorite, because of its
quaintness and size as well as the friendliness of the people along with the
ability of many Belgians to speak many different languages.
I love France as well, Paris is
historical and beautiful and not always easy to get around in…but each time I
come back to London I truly like it more and more.
What A great city…gigantic size wise in population and space
but a beautiful city
nonetheless!!!
Today we
were able to get into city center about 4 PM and head to Oxford Street which is
the richest shopping area in London…it was in full Christmas swing
already!
I have never seen
anything more festive and decorative!!!
From there we headed on a brisk 30 minute walk to dinner through a crowd
of what must have been 15000 people on the sidewalk and we made it in record
time for another wonderful meal of curry chicken, naan, rice and curried
potatoes….we have been so lucky with meals on this trip…it has never been
better!
I cannot thank EF enough
for the majority of the choices that they have made.
If I write that my good friend the “very wonderful Mary
Erskine” took care of this then I will owe her a lot.
Plus I will know if she is actually reading my blog as she
said she was!!!!
This is a test
starting now Mary….let’s see if you are paying attention!!!
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| On Oxford..major Department Store |
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| All the way down Oxford Street...amazing! |
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| Piccadilly Circus |
From dinner we head to Piccadilly Circus which is the Times
Square of
Europe and the kids are
having a great time after a long few days of travel and remembrance!
I am happy for them as a group.
Not once has one of our kids been late,
not once has one of them needed to be spoken to about decorum…truly a great
group of kids!
This goes for
Kinkora and SJJH as well, well a couple of the Kinkora boys need to buy a watch, but
another great group to travel with!!!
I sign off for you and hope that you are enjoying the
blog and feeling connected to your kids!!
Take care and wish us luck on tickets!
Dc
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