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Princess returns

Posted in Family life, Getting away, Overseas travel, children, tagged , , , on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Princess is now safely back home, although perhaps predictably the journey was not totally without incident. Upon arrival at Heathrow, London, she was unable to locate her passport. She knew she had used it coming into the UK from France four days earlier, but somehow in between then and this panic stricken moment, it had [...]

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French exchange – post #02

Posted in Family life, tagged , , on December 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Sixteen year old Princess has travelled to France via London on a French exchange visit. She will be there until the end of January. Following are extractions from emails sent and received between us.
Me
So let me get this straight, you have left your brand new state of the art MacBook at the x-ray security checkpoint [...]

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French exchange – post #01

Posted in Family life, Overseas travel, children, tagged , , on December 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Sixteen year old Princess has travelled to France via London on a French exchange visit. She will be there until the end of January. Following are some extractions from emails sent and received.
Me
Lovely to hear you’ve arrived safely. You really are so lucky getting to swap your summer school holidays, 30°C+ days, for… err, winter [...]

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