We had a great sleep in this morning. Nothing to wake up for, no noise, a dark room. ..It was about 9 when we got out of bed.

I cooked breakfast (bacon and egg sandwich) and we planned our day. First job was to go up in the roof and sort out stuff i had left here in 2002 when i left. It was a great nostalgic trip seeing old skydiving t shirts, maps and postcards collected from my travels, as well as old guidebooks and other assorted odds and ends -even old payslips, for £4.30/hour! Most of them just ended up in a box for the salvos or the rubbish bin, and a very small amount went inthe “coming home” pile. Kaoru was happy asit meant more suitcase space for her to fill up!

After a shower we drove in to Abingdon and went to the bank – i had a statement showing ~£50 and wanted to see if i could get my hands on it. I had previously communicated with the bank and they had told me to just come in with id. But no. They needed proof of my current address, bank account for it to go in to (in my name, meaning exchange rates, etc, as that would be in Australia) and it would take some time. I decided it wasn’t worth my time, as i would have to come back in.

We had lunch at a Costa coffee as it was something Kaoru remembered. After lunch we had a walk around Abingdon, Aunty Diane pointing all the sights out. We stoppedat a pub and Kaoru and I had a drink (warm beer on a hot day. ..disgusting) while Aunty Diane moved her car (she was in a 2 hour free zone). We met back at the museum/old town hall, and Kaoru and i went to the top for the scenic lookout. There was a volunteer up there who pointed out the sights in every direction, making it well worth the £2 each.

We only had 5-10 minutes to look at the museum as it was nearly closing time. So werushed through that (luckily not too big) and were done. We were taken around the rest of Aunty Diane’s favorite places before going back home. We relaxed for a while and had dinner (salmon and salad), and played a few games of “Set” a pattern recognition card game Aunty Diane had. We had a look at some options for getting to Yukari’s house, and then i took Kaoru up to the pub for a drink. She had a nice cold cider and i thoughtI’d give english beer another go. Nope. Last one. We went back home, chatted for a while and went to bed.