First pub visit

On Tuesday we were handed over to the Rotary club of Hythe in the morning and then taken to The Globe for our first English pub lunch. We enjoyed a Ploughmans lunch, a couple of warm beers and some good conversation with our new hosts.

Our Stay at New Barn

For the first 3 nights of our stay in England, Alison, Charlene and myself were hosted by Stewart and Sheila Grainger. Steward is the GSE Chair for District 1120 and has done a fantastic job of organising our itinerary and our vocational visits. They made us exceptionally welcome in their home and we really enjoyed our time at Studley Cresent. Thankyou Sheila and Stewart. Here are some photos from our time in the Grainger household; An albino squirel, Charlene, Sheila and Alison on our walk into Longfield, Sowing winter wheat, a pond near New Barn and Alison outside 24 Studley Cresent.

Big Ben and I

A trip to London town

After spending the morning in Greenwich our hosts kindly offered to drive us into central London to see the sites. As you can see in the photo we dropped into Buckingham Palace for tea but unfortunately she was busy!

Greenwich

In the morning we visited Greenwich Park which included a visit the the observatory were we stood either side of Greenwich mean time. A case of were west meets east.

A musical night

On our first day in England we joined our host families at a Musical Chariety event. There were lots of corny jokes and old fashioned songs such as 'roll out the barrell'. The team did a great job of mostly staying awake after little sleep in the previous 40 hours.

We are here!

After a grueling but uneventful flight we touched down today (Sat) at Heathrow at 6.05 am. After a 6 hour flight from Adelaide to Singapore we had a 6 hour stopover prior to leaving for the UK. Some 13 hours later and not enough sleep (besides Kent!) we arrived bleary eyed but excited. Our hosts greeted us at the airport and we have spent a quite day with them.

Our current challenge is to stay awake all day and go to bed tonight UK time. In a hours time we are heading of to a Rotary musical. Will post some photos when in my next blog. Tooooo tired to type any more. Jet laagggg.