So after a long flight and a brief encounter with customs (some spastic had three pairs of scissors in their hand luggage, for any finger nail trimming/hair dressing emergencies that may have popped up) we arrived fresh faced and ready for adventure in London. After all our visa dramas and the long, long wait, they barely even looked at the shiny stickers in our passports as they pushed us through. Jet lag set in pretty well straight away and so we awoke really early every morning. Those first few days we did some fun touristy stuff, challenging the peak our tube Fee did pull me through some closing doors to be the 280nd person in the carriage. We did some stuff we missed out on last trip, Camden Markets.....cool, great shopping, funky people. Tate Modern...... whole bunch of unrecognisable crap thrown on a wall, Blah, highlight was the soap on a rope for 50. Not enough time to do much else and soon we were on the train bound for the new home.
Cambridge is awesome. Great lifestyle and people just out all the time enjoying the place. Great atmosphere and a pretty young town, people that is. We stayed in B&B after B&B very stressful and very hard to get somewhere to live. So much red tape and rentals just go to quick. Eventually we found a share house to live in and all and all its not to bad. We have our own space and its short term. The area is fantastic, we walk everywhere and can even walk all the way into town. We have walked for 5 or 6 hours straight on more than one occasion. When we unpacked we did find amongst Fee's stuff the most well travelled hair starightner in the world. It has now visited its 12th country and is still in great nick as she hasn't ever used it.
Some Cambridge observations. The lights at christmas are so pretty, cascading lights from buildings and giant angels hanging its very festive. There is an ice rink set up in Parkers Peace (the towns central park) which is flood lit with German sausage stalls and mulled wine. Cambridge fashion is really cool. You can ware whatever you like and no one would bat an eyelid. This is no better evidenced by the common female trend to don a jumper, belt, stockings, thermals or semi opaque tights, some big boots and away we go. Yes you read that right, no pants or skirts just undies and some nice accessories. We have seen more camel toe in Cambridge than you would see in the Simpson Desert. Strange, funky but soon became normal. Oh yeah great shoe stores in England.
We have done a few trips around the area and back to london for some more tourist stuff. There is plenty to see around here. The little villages are fantastic and more pubs that we could ever eat at. We went to a halloween carnival and Bonfire in a village a few miles away. It was a chance thing but great fun and we stood under the firworks display by the masive bonfire. The fire works and bonfire were put on by the army so it was typically high on wizz and partucularly bang, some of the lodest fireworks I have ever heard. As the show finished we realised that the craker cartridges were falling all around us and down on cars, it was really cool.
We went to a little market town down the road called Saffron Walden. A medieval town with a cute little market square and some really nice buildings. It was the coldest day on earth however so we are planning another trip out there when its warmer to visit some historic houses and Jamie Oliver's Mum and Dad's pub. We have also been out to Newmarket (aka newmarket races) it has some beautiful estate homes and mannors but is strange as it is the richest of the rich mixed with the poorest of the poor. We feel like we have really explored alot of Cambridge and we are getting down to nooks and crannies.
Duxford is ............awesome. I have seen more aricraft flying than I could have imagined and its non flying season and not flash weather. Despite this i have already seen acrobatics and tower buzzing, roaring merlins at 100ft. It is really is a sight to behold. The site it self has great sunsets and I have seen the second most beautiful sight in the world yesterday. Looking into a beautiful sunset, a range of pinks purples and oranges rolling over the clouds that sat on the horizon, a merlin engine raored behind me at 150ft off the deck heading straight into the sunset. Roaring towards the end of the airfield, it banked up and right accross the settin sun. I now truly understand why Ronnie loved them and England saw them as a saviour. There is something magical. So so far I have seen the following aircraft flying. B25 Mitchell, Rapede, Nimrod, Chimpmunk, Spitfire V, Spitfire IX, Bearcat, another Spitfire V, T27, Sabre, Curtiss hawk and a Tiger moth. Other crap cessnas but they are boring.
Ok well we wont bore you any longer. We will start posting photos of our trips and if you feel like a chat get skype and look for our login feebai. We have a skype phone so we are on all the time and it is free!!! Ok we will talk to you all soon.
Cambridge is awesome. Great lifestyle and people just out all the time enjoying the place. Great atmosphere and a pretty young town, people that is. We stayed in B&B after B&B very stressful and very hard to get somewhere to live. So much red tape and rentals just go to quick. Eventually we found a share house to live in and all and all its not to bad. We have our own space and its short term. The area is fantastic, we walk everywhere and can even walk all the way into town. We have walked for 5 or 6 hours straight on more than one occasion. When we unpacked we did find amongst Fee's stuff the most well travelled hair starightner in the world. It has now visited its 12th country and is still in great nick as she hasn't ever used it.
Some Cambridge observations. The lights at christmas are so pretty, cascading lights from buildings and giant angels hanging its very festive. There is an ice rink set up in Parkers Peace (the towns central park) which is flood lit with German sausage stalls and mulled wine. Cambridge fashion is really cool. You can ware whatever you like and no one would bat an eyelid. This is no better evidenced by the common female trend to don a jumper, belt, stockings, thermals or semi opaque tights, some big boots and away we go. Yes you read that right, no pants or skirts just undies and some nice accessories. We have seen more camel toe in Cambridge than you would see in the Simpson Desert. Strange, funky but soon became normal. Oh yeah great shoe stores in England.
We have done a few trips around the area and back to london for some more tourist stuff. There is plenty to see around here. The little villages are fantastic and more pubs that we could ever eat at. We went to a halloween carnival and Bonfire in a village a few miles away. It was a chance thing but great fun and we stood under the firworks display by the masive bonfire. The fire works and bonfire were put on by the army so it was typically high on wizz and partucularly bang, some of the lodest fireworks I have ever heard. As the show finished we realised that the craker cartridges were falling all around us and down on cars, it was really cool.
We went to a little market town down the road called Saffron Walden. A medieval town with a cute little market square and some really nice buildings. It was the coldest day on earth however so we are planning another trip out there when its warmer to visit some historic houses and Jamie Oliver's Mum and Dad's pub. We have also been out to Newmarket (aka newmarket races) it has some beautiful estate homes and mannors but is strange as it is the richest of the rich mixed with the poorest of the poor. We feel like we have really explored alot of Cambridge and we are getting down to nooks and crannies.
Duxford is ............awesome. I have seen more aricraft flying than I could have imagined and its non flying season and not flash weather. Despite this i have already seen acrobatics and tower buzzing, roaring merlins at 100ft. It is really is a sight to behold. The site it self has great sunsets and I have seen the second most beautiful sight in the world yesterday. Looking into a beautiful sunset, a range of pinks purples and oranges rolling over the clouds that sat on the horizon, a merlin engine raored behind me at 150ft off the deck heading straight into the sunset. Roaring towards the end of the airfield, it banked up and right accross the settin sun. I now truly understand why Ronnie loved them and England saw them as a saviour. There is something magical. So so far I have seen the following aircraft flying. B25 Mitchell, Rapede, Nimrod, Chimpmunk, Spitfire V, Spitfire IX, Bearcat, another Spitfire V, T27, Sabre, Curtiss hawk and a Tiger moth. Other crap cessnas but they are boring.
Ok well we wont bore you any longer. We will start posting photos of our trips and if you feel like a chat get skype and look for our login feebai. We have a skype phone so we are on all the time and it is free!!! Ok we will talk to you all soon.
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