The long walk...take 2

I've been wanting to do something for a cause that really means something to me for a while. Feet First are a charity that treat Talipes and Clubfoot worldwide. I was born with Talipes and have had several operations over the years to correct my feet. If you're born in pretty much anywhere in the western world, it's simple, easy and pretty painless to treat Talipes nowadays, however in much of the developing world, Talipes can be a debilitating deformity that cripples its victims and causes extreme pain, an inability to work and ultimately social exclusion and death.

SJ and I signed up for a 26.2 mile marathon walk around the London Olympic venues. We had to do an awful lot of training, walking around 30-40 miles per week but in the end it was well worth it. On Sept 1st, we completed our walk, taking around 8 hours and leaving some very tired legs...

We raised just over £2000 for Feet First. If anyone wants to contribute further, the you can do so here: www.justgiving.com/philipnunn

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Olympics

What a summer...fantastic season of sport...all our athletes did amazingly well, and we did manage to get to some of the events despite the ticketing nightmare.

It has left a somewhat empty feeling now though, knowing we only have dark nights and cold weather to look forward to now. Still we did get some good shots of the action.

The Cycling road race:

The Cycling time trial

Chris Froome...

Wiggo!

The Basketball (Women's)

The Men's Marathon

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Jubilee celebration

The Queens Jubilee arrived and what a miserable day it was...we headed into London but to be honest it wasn't really worth it. You see, the problem with a pageant along the Thames, is that everything is lower than the embankment, meaning that unless you're in the very front row, you simply cannot see anything...of course it wasn't aided by the fact it was freezing cold and wet as hell...still it is heartening to see how many Londoners still turn out for their Queen...we wouldn't have missed it...

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Malamute train

Chief made his maiden voyage on a train today. It was the First Capital Connect service from Radlett to Farringdon. He was a little nervous at first but soon got into the swing of things...eventually taking the time to have a look out of the window to watch the world go by...

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Covent Garden at Xmas.

It's always nice around London at Christmas...generally everyone has a lot of festive good cheer and over recent years it seems to me that most Londoners now tend to regard the festive season as one to be celebrated more than ever. We spent some time wandering around Covent Garden earlier today.

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Somerset House

We took advantage of an AMEX offer to see an open air screening of The Big Blue. We went with some friends and none of us had seen it before. Great film but even better location! Simply a great way to see a movie...as long as it doesn't rain!

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Vinopolis

For a wedding present, the guys at work bought SJ and I a voucher for a meal, tour, wine, beer, rum, whisky, Bombay Sapphire cocktail and absinthe tasting at Vinopolis in London. We'd been here before but not had the full experience...

It started off with a very nice email, plus a glass of the house red....then the main event...tasting of 6 wines each, two beers, two whiskies, a Bombay Sapphire cocktail, an absinthe and a whisky! Well, we didn't actually make it to the beers, but we did try all of the others. The wines were superb - it was split into European, American and New World sections. All were good, although the New World edged it for me...

I'd never had absinthe before and this was strong stuff...there are two ways you can take it apparently, French or Czech - I preferred the Czech way!

Gilgamesh

Got back from India and then went straight out for...an Indian! Well, to be fair, we thought it was an Indian but it actually turned out to be Thai! We went to Gilgamesh, a well-recommended restaurant in Camden. We had the best table in the house - a circular one, up on a plinth...fantastic! We had some friends over from Phoenix and also met up with J & P. interestingly enough, the "Fonz" was in there as well!

Harrow

Just spent the day in Sudbury Hill. An hour on the tube, 30 mins on the overground and I'm about 20 miles from the front door...sometimes you really should just look at a map!


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Location:Roman Rd,,United Kingdom

Shoreditch House

Spent the afternoon at Shoreditch House...great place but very busy. Lots of famous people knocking around as well...

Wills & Kate - The Royal Wedding

Today was a Bank Holiday here in the UK due to the Royal Wedding. We dcided to head into London because to be honest, when are we ever going ot have the chance to be part of such a spectacle. Of course, we knew that the chances of us actually seeing anything were really quite remote, however we thought we'd give it a go anyway.


Sure enough it was absolutely ramjam packed. We could not get a space on the Mall at all, and so we laid out our picnic table in St James Park with a (fairly) decent view of the Royal Balcony. We set the iPad and 3G connection up and hey presto, we had a great view! We even had an audience at one point!