July 2019 - Part 2

July 15 - 25

A busy period! Olivia flew in from Brisbane to join Paulie in London for some exploring whilst Stephen jumped in a car at Heathrow to visit a potential collaborator up north on the Fylde coast of Lancashire before returning to Oxford (He didn't want to misss Keno submitting his DPhil/PhD). The team met up down south near Brighton to join pal Jude on a hike through the South Downs in Sussex to check out Virginia Woolf's pad. After a quick check in the the Oxford lads, the trio headed back to France to greet visiting pal Louise and for Olivia to have some adventures around the village. They returned to Oxford on the 25th for the Big Event the next day.

1 July 15th - Olivia arrives from Australia and Paulie & Stephen meet her at Hethrow	2 .	3 After meeting at Heathrow the gals head to a pad in Peckham. Stehen heads north to a meeting
4 .	5 Another guest at their Airbnb pad	6 .
7 Off to explore....	8 Tower of Londoon	9 Hyde park
10 Kensington	11 .	12 .
13 .	14 17th - G & T time	15 Greenwich Mean time
16 .. to set their clocks by	17 .	18 .
19 .	20 17th - Stephen is back from his trip up to Lytham via Chester and it's time for Keno to submit his thesis	21 A sigh of relief can be heard from Oxford. But another major milestme coming up next week!! A wedding!!!
22 .	23 Stephen leaves the lads to have a drink with colleagues	24 A wee break at Hampstead Heath
25 And then visit Karl Marx's grave	26 Paulie's pad from 20 + years ago in Notting Hill	27 .
28 18 July - Stephen meets pal Jude en route from Oxford and heads to Lewes near Brighton. The gals train down from London	29 Time for a hike. From Lewes to Virginia Woolf's at Rodmell	30 .
31 .	32 Local greeting	33 The wild kids decide to jog part way
34 .	35 That way	36 .
37 .	38 .	39 Western Hemisphere meets Eastern
40 Nearly at the lunch stop	41 9km in it's time to find a pub.	42 The River Ouse where the troubled Woolf took her life in 1941
43 a redundant climb	44 18km done. Jude heads to Brighton to visit a pal	45 And the team head to Keno and James in Oxford
46 .	47 19th July - James working at home, so Keno & the team head out	48 To the Natural History Museum & Pitt Rivers to visit Paulie's Bear pal
49 .	50 Pitt River explorers	51 Keno's new colleage, St John's, where he starts as a Junior Research Fellow in October
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55 20 July - It's back to France.	56 Stephen is on alert for feline security breaches (they are using the garden as kitty litter)	57 .
58 .	59 21st - Market day	60 Apero with Yolande
61 Followed by a vist to Yolande's farm for Olivia to meet the boys	62 followed by dinner	63 .
64 22nd - time for a hike.	65 It's up the cliffs	66 .
67 .	68 ,	69 .
70 .	71 ...and into the grotte	72 .
73 And then out the other side	74 ...and down again	75 Into the third cave
76 .	77 And off again	78 22nd - Paulie collects pal Louise Pegonis from the train
79 A few introductions	80 .	81 The next day it's cycle time. A pleasant 20km pedal close to Lexos and back
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85 A quick look at the village view	86 a ritual leap	87 .
88 On the 23rd it's time for the water	89 .	90 Video - the first challenge. Not a success for all
91 .	92 Mountain spring flows into the river. Lovely.	93 Louise has the hang of it
94 And Michael zooms on	95 Video - the final "rapid"	96 Done!
97 24th - the next day it's back to Oxford for the event of the year.	98 So the team chill at the Marché Gourmand	99 Louise stayed on in the village for a few more nights.