Sunday: Went on the open topped bus and had a really good tour of London, Stacy really enjoyed it. We had lunch at the Hard Rock cafe and it was actually really nice. Couldn't go into Westminster Abbey cos it was Sunday, but had a good look around and went into the Abbey shop.... all in all we had a good, but exhausting day. Monday: had orientation for the conference at Australia House, walked about 8km return to get there. Then got a taxi to the apartments (rea...

Sunday: Went on the open topped bus and had a really good tour of London, Stacy really enjoyed it. We had lunch at the Hard Rock cafe and it was actually really nice. Couldn't go into Westminster Abbey cos it was Sunday, but had a good look around and went into the Abbey shop.... all in all we had a good, but exhausting day. Monday: had orientation for the conference at Australia House, walked about 8km return to get there. Then got a taxi to the apartments (rea...

ARRIVAL IN LONDON - PART ii We are in London and the hotel is lovely, room is very small, but bed is comfy and thats all that matters. We're 0.7k's from Buckingham Palace, so we wander off to see the palace, wander around St James's park and sit and feed the squirrels. Its early afternoon and I'm feeling pretty tired and icky - so we head back to the hotel and grab some supplies on the way... spend the rest of the evening veging out - watching movies we bought ...

THE BEGINNING........ Well we arrived not after a very interesting time getting here. Flight from Canberra - delayed 45 mins, but still got to Sydney with no problem. Got on flight to Bangkok, sat there and sat there, announcement 'we have no water, engineers are looking at it - will be 20 mins'...... same message happened 3 times (but beauty of business class lots of champagne while we wait ;-) - finally after 2 hours, we are told to disembark... given 2 x $3...