Well we have been in London for 5 days now and the body clock's are finally in tune. We spent the first 2 nights in hostels trying to beat the jetlag and didn't accomplish much apart from getting a new card for our old English bank account.
We walked into the Mongolian embassy without an appointment and received our visas in about 5 minutes (take note Russia!) That was a big relief so it is now all systems go for the Trans Siberian adventure.
We have been staying at Graeme's the last few nights which has been great. It's much better staying with friends and we get to have some family dinners. Last night Graeme cooked us an amazing gluten free spag bol from scratch which was washed down with a delightful South Aussie red and backed by the best of Pavarotti on youtube .
We spent Sunday with our friends Stephen and Gabby and had a ball. Our aim was to hit up some car boot sales before lunch at the pub (Sunday roast lunch at the pub is a big deal over here, the first 5 pubs we called were booked out!). The first sale was advertised as 200 stalls outside but in reality turned out to be 4 stalls in a hall. Stephen had buyers remorse when we left and is still kicking himself that he didn't buy a pack of cards titled "The Best Rocks In Wales". The next sale was better and I won the 'best buy for a pound' game with a magnificent collection of top trumps cards. The top trumps were a good buy as we got to play them whilst we waited over an hour for lunch.
We have started planning and booking the first of our mini trips of the next few weeks. The first is to Portsmouth to Watch Stephen's band Revere and then we will be heading to Morocco. Shit is finally starting to get real!
Here is a photo of our family dinner, a "Posh" drop and a jar of moles we saw at a museum today..
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