Monday 24 August It's raining. A lot. Malcolm catches up on his blog. I do some research into visiting Greenwich. The rain clears and we head off to the train. We barely get to Greenwich when it starts raining again. We head to the info centre and check things out. It's raining very hard and we only have the the 1 small umbrella. We visit the painted hall and chapel then to the navel museum. We stop for a snack and continue on to the royal observatory where the...

Sunday 23rd August We wake up late. But manage to gave breakfast and get into Westminster by 10:30. Kahli and Trevor are not far behind us and we head off to Buckingham palace to see the changing of the guards. It looks like quite a bit of rigmarole! They are escorted by police. It starts raining as we head back to Westminster. We get lunch and eat it in the subway out of the rain. We check out the sites. The rain eases and the sun comes out again. We walk acros...

Saturday 22 August It's a beautiful sunny day and we head off toward Peckham church to meet up with Kahli and Trevor. They beat us. We catch the of the sabbath school. There is a baby dedication as well as a guest speaker (dr chidi) from running a health campaign. The message is on forgiveness. 'Bitter or better'. It's about 1pm when we get out. It's a friendly church and a few ppl talk to us. There is a church lunch, but we want to be In The cool of a park. It'...

Friday 21 August We need to get up earlier today to get breakfast - as it's pretty cheap considering and eat all you want! We are trying to get by on 2 meals. It's good for saving $$. We get to the visa place in pretty good time, and already a line. We find out we needed to have an appointment and that there are none until after we leave for Russia. Eeekk! There is a costly solution of course: a private visa company. Malcolm rings them and we head over there b...

Thursday 20 August Didn't get heaps of good sleep. There was no one in the room when we got there but it was obvious two girls had the other beds. They came in some time in the night or morning. It's about 10 by the time I get up. Malcolm is just having breakfast and we go off to find an Internet cafe to print off some documents. We print our documents and head to the Mongolian consulate. We are 8min too late for the visa office. We talk to the man at the office...