Today was a very educational day - educational in that it was a reminder of how young Australia is, and how old England is... Bernie needed to see his mum today at Southampton so we hitched a ride and were dropped off at Winchester. This was a typical English country town but with so much history. It was actually where the first King (King Alfred - whom it appears everyone was very fond of - anyone shocked that a royal is still loved after 1200 years???) was fr...

Our fine form continued today, ominously set up by the fact that I made Chris leave the house 6 tackles in in the State of Origin match. Today was a comedy of errors: Couldn't get onto the bus (turns out a max of 2 prams are allowed at any one time, unless you want to fold it up - not with a baby, nappy bag and esky all attached - say goodbye to £1.35) No lifts at either overground station, had to carry the pram and all of its 20kg in accessories up/down s...

Day of firsts for Mitch: Red double-decker bus (73) to Tottenham Court Road Strolled through Covent Garden Lunch in Trafalgar Square (no one told Mitch not to feed the pigeons!) Photo shoot outside Buckingham Palace (blocked off to pull the scaffolding down from Queen's jubilee) Zoom past Big Ben and Houses of Parliament Wandered along the Southbank (no public toilets anywhere, but did get formula!) Tube from Bank back to Angel and bus back to Stokey (lo...

Disasterous day trying to sort our lives out. Turns out no jailbreaking of Chris' iphone was needed (all we needed to do was go back to the phone shop and they could get our sim cards working). Reena now needs to send his SIM card over to restore his phone first. Also, there is no Nestle baby formula anywhere! And it seems that apparently no babies in the UK suffer from reflux either. The hunt for suitable formula will continue tomorrow...

Arrived in London 1hr early (after a relatively stree-free flight). Would have been 10mins earlier too if there wasn't an unidentified airplane in the flight zone (captain quickly backpeddled on releasing so much info when he must have figured people were going to freak out). Mitch slept 6 or 7 hrs so we arrived feeling quite refreshed ... Great to be back at old Manse Road. Bernie, Chris and Noutchy headed out within 3hrs of our arrival to play golf (beating t...