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Bluebells and Sheep in Sussex

As much as I love traveling alone it is nice to meet up with people I know now and again - it's kind of a relief to talk to someone other than myself. I am not totally a lone wolf!  My friend Claudia from Germany came over to England for a week to stay with her friends Janette and Martyn and I was invited to join them for a couple of days as well.   So on Sunday afternoon I took the train down to Sussex where I was greeted by all three.  It was a super couple of days and we got around the countryside quite a bit.  One of the highlights was visiting Bateman's which was the writer Rudyard Kipling's home and is now a National Trust Property.  I enjoyed it so much and will be writing more about my visit and the life of this amazing man when I get home.   His study - look at all those books.  And a globe!!!! Eeee!   I'm thinking Mr. Kipling and I would get along.  (and he bakes good cakes as well...ha ha!  Don't worry if you haven't been to England you w

A great week in London

Well another catch up on my week in London.  I flew in Monday morning and while the flight was smooth and went well UK customs was another story.  It took nearly two hours to get through and I have a suspicion they were either all on a tea break or I will cut them some slack and say they were all at a meeting. (uh huh...). From my vantage point on the side at the back of the herd they were interrogating a fellow and the customs officer next to me decided to listen in.  Why they couldn't have taken him to another room and done this I don't know as it must have taken fifteen minutes or so as we did not move.  Grrrr...I also think there should be a third customs channel...have your EU and "Other" but how about a "Commonwealth" channel.  Anyway I finally got through but had to ask where the luggage came in for the flight from Malta as it was long off the luggage carousal and sitting with some other luggage belonging to pissed off "others".   Ah well on

Blue is my favourite colour

Yes blue is my favourite colour...if you could see my wardrobe or even my apartment you would know that..and turquoise is the absolute best.   I saw lots of that my last two days on Malta.  Alexander and I had worked out a route for me to get to the Blue Grotto on Saturday which involved the  bus to the airport and then a bus to the Blue Grotto.  Well I knew the times for the airport bus for weekdays but different on the weekend - as a "bus person" I should have known this. Now I had to wait nearly an hour!  So I asked at the kiosk and I was told to take the 202 to Rabat and change...the bus is sitting there with the same grumpy aggressive driver sitting in I had had the previous day.  "I can't do this again" I thought.  I walked over to one of the hustlers trying to sell cruises and tours and asked about going to the Blue Lagoon.  Blue Lagoon/Gozo trips are popular but I had already seen Gozo and the only option was going over to the Blue Lagoon for most of t