Ealing, London - 22nd July, 2005
We are preparing to go to the New Wine Conference. This is a church camping trip with 15,000 people over 2 weeks. We are going for the first week. There are many lectures, talks, services and opportunities to worship. We have been for the last 6 six years except the last. It is held on the Brisol and Bath Showgrounds in Sheppton Mallet, Somerset.
We have been back in the UK for 2 weeks nows and the boys have been enjoying meeting up with all their friends at school, some of them will be coming with our church to New Wine. We have been sorting out the flat, cleaning, visiting and talking alot about the future.
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We will be away for a week and will not be able to do any computer work. Effectively we will be off line for a week.
Greetings.
Friday, July 22, 2005
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
The End (posting date 18th May 2021)
The journey is over. We have been away for 337 days.
It was one hell of a trip.
There were times when all us of wished we were back at home, but looking back now, I hope there is never a thought that we wish we had never done it.
It was a self indulgence on my part, and I freely admit to that. But I hope it was something from which we all built some life long memories, as life is our memories, good and bad.
It is with much love that I have edited this blog and inserted loads of photos. The original blog wasn't able to hold that many photos. And the updated blog is still live at londonboards.blogspot.com. I continued the blog after we got back and there is quite a bit in there that covers our move to Canterbury and the first few years of us being there and building our property business.
And to finish off, here are some calendars and ticket photos.
All my love
Dad
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Ealing, London - July 12th, 2005
The journey is over but another begins.
We arrived back in our flat at midnight on Friday the 8th July after a 14 hour journey from Nice. It was supposed to be our shortest flight but it took longer than our longest. One of the engines broke, we had to switch planes and were eventually sent via Frankfurt. We arrived there about 9:00pm (our original departure from Nice was scheduled for 12:05pm) and then had to endure a 25 minute walk with 2 boys who were quite literally finished. It was a very unpleasant ending to a fairy tale trip. I guess reality kicks in eventually.
We spent Saturday with visitors coming to and fro and running to the shops. Sunday was a great day as we went back to church and met up with many old friends who gave us a great welcome back. We ended up going to friends for lunch and not getting home until about 4:00pm.
On monday I went into our storage unit in Vauxhall with Sammy to retrieve those items that we need in the flat. I brought much too much home and will now need to take some of it back! In the afternoon the BT man came and installed the phone and gave us an 8meg internet connection. At least it should be 8meg. I am getting nowhere near that level at the moment.
We all have mixed feelings about being back. The boys are anxious to see their friends but not so anxious to be getting back to school. They go back on Thursday for the last 7 days of term. Julie is finally able to "get on" with things (as she puts it) which is more natural for her than "getting off" or out of doing things, which is what I have subjected her to for the last year.
Financial position needs to be addressed quite sharpish and it will be down to the Job Centre for me as soon as we get back from our week down at New Wine.
I will keep you informed of progress and also fill in some of the many missing days from the blog. I suspect that we will have some interesting days ahead as we try to re-adjust and come to terms with the reality of coming home and leading a normal life again. Perhaps by this time next year I will be able to comment on whether the whole venture was worth the aggravation you have to go through when you come home. Right now; it was the best thing we ever did or probably ever will.
The journey is over but another begins.
We arrived back in our flat at midnight on Friday the 8th July after a 14 hour journey from Nice. It was supposed to be our shortest flight but it took longer than our longest. One of the engines broke, we had to switch planes and were eventually sent via Frankfurt. We arrived there about 9:00pm (our original departure from Nice was scheduled for 12:05pm) and then had to endure a 25 minute walk with 2 boys who were quite literally finished. It was a very unpleasant ending to a fairy tale trip. I guess reality kicks in eventually.
We spent Saturday with visitors coming to and fro and running to the shops. Sunday was a great day as we went back to church and met up with many old friends who gave us a great welcome back. We ended up going to friends for lunch and not getting home until about 4:00pm.
On monday I went into our storage unit in Vauxhall with Sammy to retrieve those items that we need in the flat. I brought much too much home and will now need to take some of it back! In the afternoon the BT man came and installed the phone and gave us an 8meg internet connection. At least it should be 8meg. I am getting nowhere near that level at the moment.
We all have mixed feelings about being back. The boys are anxious to see their friends but not so anxious to be getting back to school. They go back on Thursday for the last 7 days of term. Julie is finally able to "get on" with things (as she puts it) which is more natural for her than "getting off" or out of doing things, which is what I have subjected her to for the last year.
Financial position needs to be addressed quite sharpish and it will be down to the Job Centre for me as soon as we get back from our week down at New Wine.
I will keep you informed of progress and also fill in some of the many missing days from the blog. I suspect that we will have some interesting days ahead as we try to re-adjust and come to terms with the reality of coming home and leading a normal life again. Perhaps by this time next year I will be able to comment on whether the whole venture was worth the aggravation you have to go through when you come home. Right now; it was the best thing we ever did or probably ever will.
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