Category: London
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Taking A Left Turn Or, How The Other Half Live
After arriving at an ungodly hour of the morning at Soekarno-Hatta airport, I checked in for my Emirates flight back to London via Dubai and then went to find a cup of coffee. As the noisy tannoy spluttered and gurgled the announcement for my flight, I made my way to the boarding gate. Handing over […]
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Pouring Rain And Pink Snow
Last week there was torrential rain and flooding here in Jakarta. It was reported that at it’s worst 30% of the megalopolis was under water and 50,000 people were made homeless because of it. Tragically 15 people, possibly more died in the flooding. Back in the Uk snow has been reeking havoc, especially in London […]
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Straddling Gaia’s Girdle.
It is 4.30am on Monday morning here in Jakarta, and the combination of the sound of the mosque across the road and it’s blaring loudspeakers, coupled with our Buddhist neighbours loud chanting and clashing of bells on the other side of our bedroom wall, has driven me from my bed and forced me to start […]
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Frightfully British
I’ve always thought it most bizarre that British people, when traveling outside of their sceptered isle, are given to filling their suitcases with things like PG Tips, Marmite, baked beans, and marmalade. You’d think that one of the greatest thrills of traveling and going on holiday is to sample the delights of the country that […]
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Jail Birds
If someone had told me that my husband was going to get arrested at Dubai airport, and that a couple of days later I would be standing up in an English court of law, on a separate charge trying to defend myself, I’d would have said to them, ‘Yer ‘avin a giraffe with me mate’ But […]
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Sex, Pubs and Lemon Sole.
So here is an account of just one of the many adventures that I had in London whilst on holiday with the Irishman, and that I promised that I would write about earlier this week. In case anyone reading this has accidently stumbled upon this post by Googling a totally unrelated subject such as Incontinence […]
Lottie Nevin - The Red House Diaries 