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1 January 2018 On 23 December we flew into London Heathrow Airport. Customs took a while. In Germany we were able to use an automated gate if we had a new Australian passport, however when we got to London this wasn’t an option. Perhaps it is time for Australia to become a Republic, as I wasn’t exactly feeling the British love. For our rental car they gave us a Mitsubishi Triton dual cab ute with a lockable canopy. While it had PLENTY of room for our luggage, it soon became apparent that it would be very impractical. First, it was too long and too wide to fit into the typical UK micro car parking spot. Second, it was harder to get down narrow lanes and roads with cars parked either side. Third, you couldn’t see a thing out of the back. We felt like Gulliver driving his car around at the local Lilliputian village.

4 January 2018 London. What a place. It’s hard to describe London, as it is so energetic, historic, complex and, in many ways, endless. So I delved into Google and found the following quotes which align with my thinking. When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. — Samuel Johnson London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books. — Anna Quindlen