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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 |
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 3 After meeting at Heathrow the gals head to a pad in Peckham. Stehen heads north to a meeting |
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 5 Another guest at their Airbnb pad |
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 7 Off to explore.... |
 8 Tower of Londoon |
 9 Hyde park |
 10 Kensington |
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 14 17th - G & T time |
 15 Greenwich Mean time |
 16 .. to set their clocks by |
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 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!!! |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 32 Local greeting |
 33 The wild kids decide to jog part way |
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 39 Western Hemisphere meets Eastern |
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 41 9km in it's time to find a pub. |
 42 The River Ouse where the troubled Woolf took her life in 1941 |
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 44 18km done. Jude heads to Brighton to visit a pal |
 45 And the team head to Keno and James in Oxford |
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 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 |
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 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) |
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 59 21st - Market day |
 60 Apero with Yolande |
 61 Followed by a vist to Yolande's farm for Olivia to meet the boys |
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 64 22nd - time for a hike. |
 65 It's up the cliffs |
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 71 ...and into the grotte |
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 73 And then out the other side |
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 75 Into the third cave |
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 78 22nd - Paulie collects pal Louise Pegonis from the train |
 79 A few introductions |
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 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 |
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 88 On the 23rd it's time for the water |
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 90 Video - the first challenge. Not a success for all |
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 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. |
