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  • Kylee Perrett
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  • Day 21 - just chillin

    22. juni 2024, England ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    Gosh another sleep in! Haha
    Gunna be hard when we go home lol!

    We went for a walk up to Leith Hill castle. They stored a lot of the ammunition up there back in the day as it was the highest point of the area. From here we could actually see London!

    Guy is in plane heaven here as we are right beside Gatwick air port and there is a plane taking off every 3 minutes so he is always outside telling us who it is 🤣

    After our walk we went to a small farm park to have some lunch. Here we could let the kids go for a good run around on the playground while we ate!

    A quiet afternoon has been lovely 😍
    Kids had another splash in the pool and Guy has been mesmerized by all of Greame's (Hollie's Dad) stories involving history of wars etc and the treasures he has found whilst diving in old ship wrecks etc he has some very cool things!

    Heard the weather is not very nice at all today,lots of thunder 😕!
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  • Day 22 - Beached as!

    23. juni 2024, England ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C

    We went down to Little Hampton today to the beach ⛱️

    Comfortable temp here which made for a lovely day.
    By the time we walked to the beach it was midday so we had a picnic lunch.
    We then went to the little Fair that had some rides 🎢
    Kids had heaps of fun here going on dogems, small Rollercoaster, log water rides! Tyler wasn't sure about a couple but was brave with Kelsey!
    Ice cream was needed next and then the kids went crab fishing. This involved putting some bacon into a net, throw it over into the water and wait!
    We were lucky to catch about 7 crabs so the kids were happy!
    We don't keep them we just put them back 😊
    I then took the kids on the little boats where we all peddle like we did in Munster, while the others ordered our fish n chips for tea!
    We had a picnic dinner also and then headed home.
    I think I am coming down with a cold 🤧 not ideal!

    The roads in England are a tad crazy lol, not only are they narrow but there are always cyclists or people walking on the side! Especially at the moment as they send groups of city kids to the country to do orienteering as part of the Duke of Endinbrugh programme. They are pretty much allowed to go where ever so they are crossing fields with animals and all sorts! Hollie said some can be a menace with the stock 🙄

    Early night for me, we are hoping to get to London tomorrow 🇬🇧
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  • Day 23 - London city 🇬🇧

    24. juni 2024, England ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    It's off to London we went!
    Training up there is easy we take one train right through 🚆 takes about and hour 👏

    People people everywhere 🤣🙈 we headed straight to Buckingham Palace. Unbeknown to us they were practicing their ceremony for tomorrow when the Emperor and Emperoress from Japan are coming so we got to watch a bit of the show!
    Once we tackled the crowd to get out of there we headed to the Hard Rock Cafe London to have some lunch 😋

    After this it was time to go shopping at Harrods!
    This is a huge iconic shopping mall in the heart of London.
    About 6 stories high. We walked in through the Gucci store, there were a lot of these expensive shops and Guy pulled us to the Lego shop of course, to spend his voucher. Once done there Kelsey spent hers at the beauty department 💄

    I found the Harrods gift shop 🙈 this was very very cool, had so much fun looking and buying in here!

    London is an incrediblely busy city 🥴 busses and cars and people everywhere!
    I was shocked that my white shoes were black by the time the day was over!
    Hollie navigated us back to Victoria station on the underground, and back to Dorking we went. A very cool day out!

    Kids were excited to get in the pool as we had 27° here today and I think tomorrow is ment to be hotter!
    We do plan to go back to London next week and do some more sightseeing 🔭

    The boys were so cute building their lego tonight 😍
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  • Day 24 - Dorking

    25. juni 2024, England ⋅ 🌙 22 °C

    Well English push bikers took it to a new low for me today 🙈 as we drove out the gate some loser was texting, biking with no hands and smoking weed all at the same time 🤣🥴

    Unfortunately I haven't been too well with this cold and cough, lucky I have some special pills from Germany to help me through!

    Cory, Danny, me and the kids popped into Dorking town today. Dorkings mascot I spose you could say is a Rooster 🐓
    This is one of Cory and Hollies local towns.
    We walked down the street exploring some of the shops and then stopped for a bite to eat. We had a look at the church Saint Martin's, as usually there are squirrels around and the kids we lucky to get a close encounter.
    I quite like Dorking, definitely more my pace!

    I went to the supermarket. Fruit and veges are a good price here. I brought a big container of Raspberries for about $5 nzd and these were bloody huge! Big bag of carrots is about $1.40.
    I am going to miss all the fresh blueberries, strawberries and Raspberries we've been having!

    Nice afternoon in the Garden with some snacks while the kids were in the pool.

    As I type this everyone is struggling to get to sleep because we are hot 🤣🙈

    Super early start tomorrow as we try to beat the traffic and get down to Cornwall ⏰️
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  • Day 25 - Dorking to Cornwall

    26. juni 2024, England ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    ⏰️ early today!
    We were off at 630am to Cornwall, the drive is 5 hours and thank goodness I am feeling better!! 👏

    We drove 2.5 hours before our 1st stop.. Starbucks 🙈 and to let everyone stretch our legs. The kids slept pretty much the whole 1st leg of the journey!
    Then we set off again, and we're lucky to make it to our destination with no more stops, kids were awesome 😎

    On our way we passed the famous Stone Henge, we got a photo as we passed lol

    Our final destination was The Eden Project. For those who don't know what this is it is an awesome Garden display and is very famous.
    It is situated in a reclaimed Chinese clay pit so is essentially in a big hole like a quarry.
    The weather is hot 🔥 🥵
    When we got there we had a quick picnic and off we went.
    Our 1st look was the Rainforest bubble which is the largest indoor rain forest in the world.
    This was amazing 😍 they have done it really well, we spent about an hour in this one garden. Once we all had a sweat on it was Ice cream time!! Then onto the Mediterranean bubble 🫧
    We finished in the information/Museum room before heading off. We spent 4 hours and still didn't see the whole area!

    20 min drive to our accommodation and we have very comfortable rooms in the Fowley Valley in a town called Lostwithiel.
    It looks a very very old village. We were lucky to have a yummy dinner at the restaurant and then threw the kids in the pool 🏊‍♂️

    It's been a long day and I am sure tomorrow will be just as action packed! Stay tuned!!
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  • Day 26 - Cornwall

    27. juni 2024, England ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

    Gosh it was so hot last night sleeping! 🥵 no A/C!!

    We packed up the cars and headed for New Quay 30 mins away a tourist hot spot in the summer.
    Here we found a delicious place to have some brunch!
    Took a stroll up the road and got some merchandise from "Fat Willy's" surf shop 🤣 and of course some more souvenirs lol.
    We popped down to explore the beach and Kelsey stumbled upon a shop called "Kelseys Cornish" they made soaps etc so she brought some things.
    The beach was very beautiful 😍

    Next stop was Tintagel 1 hour away. To be honest I was wondering where the bloody hell Hollie was taking us 🤣
    But it turned out to be freaking amazing!
    So Tintagel is known for it's medieval castle with links to King Arthur.
    The castle is not intact it it ruins now but still very impressive.
    It is situated on a shear cliff 😬 and we literally experienced 4 seasons in one day on our walk haha!
    So the castle was built in 1230 by the 1st Earl of Cornwall, Richard. It has a long association with legends to King Arthur, and his wizard Merlin.
    The castle is owned by the prince of Wales.
    The statue you see in the picture is not ment to depict any one person it more of a art piece to showcase that era.
    This place so very very cool to visit. So much history in a phenomenal setting.

    We popped back to the gorgeous village of Tintagel and had dinner in the King Arthur Arms pub. Dinner was delicious 😋 good ole pub food 👏

    Loaded up the kids for a 2.5 hour drive to our accommodation at Wookey Hole. Poor Leo was so over being in his car seat but we got here!!

    I have to do a laugh at some of the roads we drive down. They honestly look like someone's tanker track to me!! 🙈

    Choosing 10 photos for today will be hard!!
    It has been an enjoyable day had by all!
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  • Day 27 - Wookey hole

    28. juni 2024, England ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

    We woke up at Wookey Hole today and at 10am all we had to do was walk about 30 metres to the caves!

    These were really cool caves at some points we were very deep under the earth's surface!
    Poor Tyler wasn't so sure about the whole situation 🙈
    As we walked through the caves the guide was telling us a legend about a witch who was known to live in the caves!
    Found in the caves were some human bones which we did see in the museum. 💀 We also learnt a lot of facts, like the stones in the caves were 1 million years old and how many of the rocks were formed. Some by drips if mineral water and some back in the ice age when the river had frozen!
    Half way through we found a room they have made in the cave to cure their cheese!

    After we came out of the cave the kids had fun exploring the dinosaurs, arcades with old pokie machines, foam Canon shooting and mirror maze! Kelsey and Guy also got to try out making some paper from materials (cotton,silk) as that is how they made it back in the day.
    We filled the kids with food and off we set home. 3 hour drive today and whilst Tyler talked our ear off the whole way, the kids were such great traveller's 😍
    I think we arrived home about 5pm, had an easy tea, the kids jumped in the pool too.
    Big thanks to Cory & Hollie for taking us in 2 cars to Cornwall and back it was a great couple of days!
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  • The Mall

    Day 28 - Crawley

    29. juni 2024, England ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

    Everyone woke up well rested today 😌

    Hollie kindly took Kelsey, Guy and I into Crawley (or creepy crawley as they call it 🙈🤣) for a spot of shopping as Kels still had some pounds to spend.
    1st we stopped at a toy shop called Smyths. Holey moley I've never seen a toy shop so elaborate! This place was impressive, of course Guy was in Lego heaven again haha.
    We then went to the County Mall and Hollie took us to some of her favs 😍
    Kelsey wanted some clothes and she managed find some at New Look. Crawley is bigger than New Plymouth, it was cool looking around some new shops!
    After a spot of lunch we went home.

    While we were doing this the boys took Leo and Tyler for a nice walk near the lake 😍

    We had a lovely BBQ this evening where Hollies brother Aaron, his wife Alice and their daughter Layla joined us. Weather again is lovely so this made for a nice evening outside while all the kids played 😊
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  • Day 29 - Brooklands Museum

    30. juni 2024, England ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    Chauffeur Cory drove the 4 of us to Weybridge today.
    Here we visited the Brooklands Museum. We left early as when we went to book our tickets it was Porsche day 🙃 so literally every man and his Porsche was there on display as well 🤣

    The reason we choose to come here is because it has a full sized Concorde on display so you can imagine how excited Guy was!

    We arrived at 10 am went straight to book our "Concorde Experience" we couldn't do our Tour until 11:55am.
    This place is huge 🙈 we started outside by looking at all the other planes. We were able to board onto one that belonged to the Sultan of Oman. This was his private plane. He donated it to Brooklands as it was built there.
    They had a couple of Mclaren formula one cars and one even made of Lego!
    Quick bite to eat and we were able to do the Concorde tour. We boarded from back steps and watched a movie about the plane. 30% of the plane we were on was built at Brooklands also.
    The plane is absolutely huge, when it used fly the outside temp reaches 127° and the whole plane expands 8 inches.
    One seat cost around $12000 nzd to fly on the Concorde, serving high quality food and drink 🍸
    We were then able to sit in the seats and watch a slightly simulated take off and landing. This plane was so ahead of its time, it's a shame it had to be pulled from the air due to the sonic boom it made flying over land.
    We were even given Concorde boarding passes and certificates 😍
    Such an awesome thing to see in real life.
    So much more to see at the museum, aircrafts, cars and motorcycles for miles but it was all so interesting. Even had a London bus museum, and we were able to board a double decker bus at 2pm and go for trip around the town of Weybridge.
    Cannot believe we spent nearly 5 hours there but it was well worth it!
    Safe to say we were all pretty tired after that day! Lucky Debs and Hollie had a yummy pork roast on for tea with homemade Yorkshire puddings too! 😋
    Of course the kids had another swim 🏊‍♂️

    Bedtime won't be late for us tonight and the 4 of us are off to London 🇬🇧 again tomorrow on our own 🤣🙈
    Wish us luck!
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  • Danny & the RavenShard in the backgroundThe flowers are the old moat, it was 3times this size

    Day 30 - London part 2 🇬🇧

    1. juli 2024, England ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

    Wow day 30!! Jeepers must be time to go home 🙈

    We did it, we made it into London and home by ourselves! 🤣🙈

    Day started with the train from Dorking to London. We had to hop off and navigate our way to another line to get to Westminster. Here we walked out of the underground straight up to Big Ben 😍 not actually called Big Ben, only the bell is! Fun fact. Victoria tower is it's actual name!

    We headed straight for the London eye. I had pre purchased fast track tickets as we hate lines 🙈 and it was well worth the extra money! We were able to walk straight on and the other line was huge!
    London eye was very cool it takes 32 minutes to go right the way around. Awesome views of the city, a must do but something you'd only do once.

    We jumped on the Thames boat hop on hop off and headed for the tower bridge. We did have an issue with our ticket but the lovely lady overrode it for us!
    On the boat ride we had live commentary which was great we learnt heaps as we passed famous places.
    By the time we got to the towers it was nearly 1pm and we were starving! Found a nice pub and had a delicious lunch. We deliberated for some time as to what to do next. We were all pretty knackered but also it was a long way to come to do the eye, boat ride and to turn back home. So spare of the moment we paid for tickets to the Tower of London, and I'm bloody glad we did (kelsey not so much 🤣)
    This was very interesting, we started with and hour guided tour and our tour guide was brilliant. He explained how they get the job, you must service for more than 22 years and he has met the king and attended queen funeral and these guys actually live at the tower! Such a nice bloke.
    After our Tour we headed to the Crown Jewels, this was awesome to see! 👑 unfortunately no photos to be taken.
    It was kool to see friendly Raven's all around the castle .
    After a quick refreshment we walked most of the other parts of the tower. Incredible history, cannot believe some of the towers were built in the 1200's! This place has been a Zoo, a Kings house, Prison, torture camber, quite amazing really. All in all we spent 2.5hours here.
    It was now rush hour on the tube 🥴 so we took the boat back to westminster to kill some time then took the underground and train back to Dorking. Home at 740pm we all had and exhausting but good day 😍
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