Home to Jacks Coffee Lounge

We have missed the coffee in NZ. The watery cappucinos we have been served up in Italy and Croatia aren't a patch on a Jack's flat white. It must be time to come home.

With only 3 days in the UK before we leave we decided to take it easy.

We took the train out to Chippenham (scene of our year here in 1987) and visited our friends Peter & Jackie Mitchell and their children. We enjoyed a mostly familiar walk around the old haunts of Chppenham but the town has grown 50% since we were there so a lot has changed.

Here is the house we rented in Wood Lane in 1987. A nice little "two up - two down".

Hasn't changed much in the last 21 years.

Back in London it was great to see Tracy, Ethan and the girls who had arrived home from Switzerland the night we were away in Chippenham. It had been over a week since we had seen them and we received an excited arm and leg-waving welcome from the twins - they remembered us!

And Hannah helped us pack.

No visit to London is complete without a curry and our last London supper was at a superb Indian restaurant called Paradise.

It was a very sad farewell to Tracy, Ethan and their lovely girls. Unbelievably they may be back in NZ next year. Who knows, they may need some help to get home again!