London, UK

Mar 27, 2012

It's our last day in London and we were set to cram as much in as possible. by 9am we'd done three loads at the laundromat and were heading off to Buckingham Palace to see the Changing of the Guard. Parental failure: after 20minutes of waiting Emerson asked why we were queueing for the 15th time - I told her there was a big parade with Fairies and Mickey & Minnie starting soon. No matter how impressive the band and marching was it was never going to live up t...

London, UK

Mar 26, 2012

I'm in London still, though I'm a lot happier about it than The Waifs. Today we made it to St John Hotel for breakfast just minutes before end of service, we're getting pretty good with the tube eh? We didn't really have a plan apart from getting to that part of the world. A short stroll later and we realised M&M World was on the corner. The kids went nuts. I went off to look around for a little while, by the time I made it there Max was running at me screami...

London, UK

Mar 25, 2012

Stupidly early start from Paris this morning. Planned, I think, to make parting easier. Side note, I've watched season one of the Wire and Sons of Anarchy on the bus during this tour, must get more of both. Properly sad as border control stamped my passport at Calais. We saw the colapsed cliff face at Dover as we landed. Looks to be only a kilometer or two up the coast from the port. It made the news when it happened while we were away so it mustn't happen that ...

Paris, France

Mar 23, 2012

I've always scoffed at idiots that name their children after a city, we'll Adelaide is the exception, but you're not really naming her after the city of churches are you? Is it a city? Anyway I won't do it anymore if they name the kid Paris - I LOVE this place! We did a long stint up from Lucerne into Paris, arriving at about 4pm. Somehow in all Gab's battle planning she had entirely missed the perpandicular avenues of the Champs Elysees. The cabinet was assembl...

Luzern, Switzerland

Mar 21, 2012

I've never seen fresh snow as an adult, let alone held it. This stuff begs to be thrown at other people, so soft! We had an awesome morning up on Pilatus. The cable car ride was breathtaking, a couple of points where you go up and over an embankment and watch the world drop away on the other side. Claude had told me to go to Interlaken to check out the nature, he seemed excited but I didn't get it. Wow! I could have spent a few days up there, perfect clear sunny...