What to say. First we headed out to New York on the good old AA. The usual rituals, packing the luggage and weighing them to get them as close to 23KG as we can (or a bit over). In New York we camped at the BA lounge for a couple of hours before we headed [...]

At the airport, we made our way to the British Airways desk to drop our main backpacks off, and I greeted the gentleman behind the counter with a friendly “ohio gozaimasu.” He seemed to take an eternity to look at our passports, and was busy pressing keys on his keyboard, when all of a sudden [...]

Posted by Genevieve After a nine hour overnight flight and approximately 30 minutes sleep each, we began our descent into London Heathrow.  We had been praying for a dry day in the city but the thick cloud blocking our view of the landscape below was not, to say the least, promising.  Kian’s first view of [...]

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I met Rick by the London Eye. It was a drizzly, damp, gloomy day. Normal London weather, I suppose, but not exactly promising sweeping vistas of the skyline. Ah well, we boarded our capsule and were bourne up towards the sky. Water droplets stuck to the windows, but we could see across the river to [...]

Travel to London.

Will update ASAP

London Heathrow

The last 3 weeks of our stay in England, were both surreal, exciting, hard work, drunken, expensive and ultimately sad and happy all the same time. Weekdays were spent working hard painting and decorating in London, and although hard, is very satisfying being able to see what a difference you’ve made. The work was vital [...]