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Today is the last day of the trip we leave for Australia about 8PM so we have a lot to pack into the day. We headed into Shinjinku and caught a train to Yebisi which is home of the historic (didn’t look to historic to us with its modern brick and glass buildings but anyway) […] Read the rest of October 21st 
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Today was our first full day in Tokyo so we decided to do a few things we missed out on last time. We started out at the furthest point which was Asakusa here we took a look around the Asahi beer head quarters next to the station. The building is shaped to look like a […] Read the rest of October 20th
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Not much to report here as this day was half lost due to our plane trip. We got into Tokyo at about 3 PM with customs guys wanting to go through rocky’s suit case for as part of their random search. We were questioned if we had a wide range of products, drugs, weapons, pornography […] Read the rest of October 19th
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Our last day in Paris, we walked around a fair bit here and also went up the tallest building in the city for a look out their observation deck. It was a little foggy but the view was quite spectacular and there was hardly any one up there, which was a much better idea than […] Read the rest of October 18th
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A full day in Paris and we really packed it in we started off the day walking up to the Arch de Trump looking at some of the fancy stores and visiting the Peugeot showroom which was basically a fancy room with a few prototype vehicles and a gift shop, it was rather impressive. Lunch […] Read the rest of October 17th
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Our last day in London and today we have special guests, no Charles and Camilla don’t join us.. the bastards but Gary’s Brother John and wife Kath turn up in London for the start of their “Sound of Music” tour of Europe…what a hoot! if only we had have done that…high on a hill with […] Read the rest of October 16th
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Started the day by heading over the the London Eye, the huge Ferris wheel, but we decided it was too foggy and would try again, So we decided to catch the sit and stare double Decker bus. This wasn’t a bad deal it was 4 or 5 bus routes and a boat ride up the […] Read the rest of October 15th
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Our first day in London and we got up and walked across the river to parliament from where our hotel is located. We walked up to Trafalgar sq and Piccadilly circus. we called into Virgin and HMV to pick up a few cds that you cant get back at home. By this time it was […] Read the rest of October 14th
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Friday was our first real chance to see the sights of Paris. we started off where things were meant to go yesterday with a trip to the Notre Dame cathedral it is an amazing sight with its wing buttresses and gargoyles. Didn’t see the hunchback but there were a few bums around who resembled him. […] Read the rest of October 13th
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Got up today around 10 ( must of been a good sleep in due to decent bed for a fair while). today we visit the Paris motor show, we had free press passes to the Paris motor show due to our previous work on the Pulse FM Motorshow which we arranged before we left. The […] Read the rest of The cars that will eat Paris
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We got up around 8:30 and had some complimentary breaky in the lovely Bastion Hotel before starting our trip to down to Paris. Today was the last day of our stylish Chevy (Daewoo) Nabira, so a few mins was spent empting the tip floor the back floor (it started to remind me of my Fujitsu […] Read the rest of We we Pari
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