View Poll Results: Where should the Bundies get married?
UK wedding, probably Cambridge
38
80.85%
Nundle, NSW (our *other* home)
9
19.15%
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Wedding Dilemma
Jun 6th 2004, 6:45 am
#61
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Originally posted by bundy
Not the coach! Anything but the coach!!!!! Done it a few times...takes about 5 hours, stops at Heathrow for ages and Stansted (where the driver has a break). Screaming kids, no loo.....and it costs the same as the train. I'll take my chances with British Rail any day!
Anya - are trains running from King's Cross, or is there still a bus replacing something?
Not the coach! Anything but the coach!!!!! Done it a few times...takes about 5 hours, stops at Heathrow for ages and Stansted (where the driver has a break). Screaming kids, no loo.....and it costs the same as the train. I'll take my chances with British Rail any day!
Anya - are trains running from King's Cross, or is there still a bus replacing something?
This should be upto date, might help
http://www.thetrainline.com
Jun 6th 2004, 6:50 am
#62
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Originally posted by bundy
Not the coach! Anything but the coach!!!!!
Not the coach! Anything but the coach!!!!!
Jun 6th 2004, 7:00 am
#63
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Originally posted by Ulujain
Being a patriotic type Australian, I'd say get married in Australia, and drink plenty of Jim Beam!
We'll just ignore the little fact that Beam isn't Australian
Seriously though, wherever you two think would be the best place.
Being a patriotic type Australian, I'd say get married in Australia, and drink plenty of Jim Beam!
We'll just ignore the little fact that Beam isn't Australian
Seriously though, wherever you two think would be the best place.
Hi
What is a true expat australian when it's at home!!!!!
Jun 6th 2004, 7:02 am
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Any day, you really mean that don't you?
Originally posted by bundy
I'll take my chances with British Rail any day!
Anya - are trains running from King's Cross, or is there still a bus replacing something?
I'll take my chances with British Rail any day!
Anya - are trains running from King's Cross, or is there still a bus replacing something?
Jun 6th 2004, 8:06 am
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Originally posted by bundy
Not the coach! Anything but the coach!!!!!
...
no loo
Not the coach! Anything but the coach!!!!!
...
no loo
Jun 6th 2004, 8:36 am
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Originally posted by bundy
Not the coach! Anything but the coach!!!!! Done it a few times...takes about 5 hours, stops at Heathrow for ages and Stansted (where the driver has a break). Screaming kids, no loo.....and it costs the same as the train. I'll take my chances with British Rail any day!
Anya - are trains running from King's Cross, or is there still a bus replacing something?
Not the coach! Anything but the coach!!!!! Done it a few times...takes about 5 hours, stops at Heathrow for ages and Stansted (where the driver has a break). Screaming kids, no loo.....and it costs the same as the train. I'll take my chances with British Rail any day!
Anya - are trains running from King's Cross, or is there still a bus replacing something?
They've just had a week of coaches replacing the rail service between Royston & Cambridge, but I think it's scheduled to be 'back to normal' (ie chaotic?) tomorrow, but only until next weekend. IME the day after they've finished the engineering works is always bad, as the trains are all in the wrong places for what's required to run the timetable.
Last time they did this, on the Friday night, it took 2+ hours to get from Audley End to Cambridge Station (about 13 miles) and the following Monday after the engineering works, I arrived at Cambridge station at 07:05 and walked in to my office on Bishopsgate at 12:20.
If you are brave enough to attempt the journey
I would suggest you take enough reading matter (try Winston Churchill's 'History of the English Speaking People') or some CDs to listen to (eg all of Mahler's symphonies or all of Wagner's operas, or both!) which should entertain you for some of the journey, at least. Oh, and make sure your Mom gives you copious provisions before you set out...
Try checking for the latest lies (oops, I mean, 'news') at:
http://www.wagn.co.uk/
Good luck & please keep us posted on your progress.
Anya.
Jun 6th 2004, 9:49 am
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Originally posted by Essex Girl
Hi
What is a true expat australian when it's at home!!!!!
Hi
What is a true expat australian when it's at home!!!!!
Hopes that clears any confusion.
Jun 7th 2004, 12:32 am
#68
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Well I'm sure you'll all be pleased to know that British Rail behaved admirably and got me home half an hour earlier than expected!
Got up at 4.30am, not good, to go to the airport to catch the red-eye special into Gatwick. Only consolation was that the red-eye special is the commuter flight so I was surrounded by tanned men in suits
Had to waste an hour at Gatwick to wait until 9am so that I could use my railcard. Got a surprisingly clean Thameslink train into Kings Cross Thameslink, legged it to King's Cross itself, only to find that I had 90 seconds to make it all the way to Platform 11a (cheers, BR). But the guard held the train for me and even lifted my heavy bag on for me.
Left Jersey at 7am, back in Camb at 11.30am, at work at 12.00pm. Not bad really.
Got up at 4.30am, not good, to go to the airport to catch the red-eye special into Gatwick. Only consolation was that the red-eye special is the commuter flight so I was surrounded by tanned men in suits
Had to waste an hour at Gatwick to wait until 9am so that I could use my railcard. Got a surprisingly clean Thameslink train into Kings Cross Thameslink, legged it to King's Cross itself, only to find that I had 90 seconds to make it all the way to Platform 11a (cheers, BR). But the guard held the train for me and even lifted my heavy bag on for me.
Left Jersey at 7am, back in Camb at 11.30am, at work at 12.00pm. Not bad really.
Jun 7th 2004, 12:38 am
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Originally posted by bundy
Left Jersey at 7am, back in Camb at 11.30am, at work at 12.00pm. Not bad really.
Left Jersey at 7am, back in Camb at 11.30am, at work at 12.00pm. Not bad really.
Glad to have you back! As you can see from some threads, we're missing some 'regulars'....
Jun 7th 2004, 12:42 am
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Originally posted by Simone
no, not bad at all I reckon!
Glad to have you back! As you can see from some threads, we're missing some 'regulars'....
no, not bad at all I reckon!
Glad to have you back! As you can see from some threads, we're missing some 'regulars'....
Who??? Who's missing??? Why?????
Jun 7th 2004, 12:53 am
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lol! Ok, it's not that bad, but still...
See these posts:
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...hreadid=234845
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...hreadid=234895
See these posts:
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...hreadid=234845
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...hreadid=234895
Jun 7th 2004, 2:19 am
#72
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Re: Wedding Dilemma
Originally posted by bundy
What to do, what to do.
As most of you know, Mr B and I got engaged back in Feb. And we're beginning to think about the wedding in our usual vague way.
Question is, should we get married in the UK next summer, before we head to Oz (thereby including the honeymoon en route, poss in Fiji). This would be best for my family who are all over here, and a large chunk of Mr B's wider family. Plus a lot of our mates.
Or, do we wait until we get to Oz, get married in the little church in Nundle? Better for Mr B's family, our very closest mates are all out in Oz etc etc.
if we get married in one place, we'll have a blessing in the other.
Thoughts? Advice? Pros and cons?
What to do, what to do.
As most of you know, Mr B and I got engaged back in Feb. And we're beginning to think about the wedding in our usual vague way.
Question is, should we get married in the UK next summer, before we head to Oz (thereby including the honeymoon en route, poss in Fiji). This would be best for my family who are all over here, and a large chunk of Mr B's wider family. Plus a lot of our mates.
Or, do we wait until we get to Oz, get married in the little church in Nundle? Better for Mr B's family, our very closest mates are all out in Oz etc etc.
if we get married in one place, we'll have a blessing in the other.
Thoughts? Advice? Pros and cons?
Everybody happy, no problems with family annoying you and we didn't spend £14000 (the average cost of a wedding these days) and because we were on our own in Vegas and he didn't have to be embarresed the hubby agreed to wear a Kilt in my family tartan.
Good luck wherever you do it at the end of the day its down to your personnal tastes.
Have fun
Kala
Jun 7th 2004, 2:28 am
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Re: Wedding Dilemma
Originally posted by kala
My hubby and I had a similar prob so we went to Vegas got married there, then had a party in the UK when we returned here and went to Oz 2 months later and had a party there.
Everybody happy, no problems with family annoying you and we didn't spend £14000 (the average cost of a wedding these days) and because we were on our own in Vegas and he didn't have to be embarresed the hubby agreed to wear a Kilt in my family tartan.
Good luck wherever you do it at the end of the day its down to your personnal tastes.
Have fun
Kala
My hubby and I had a similar prob so we went to Vegas got married there, then had a party in the UK when we returned here and went to Oz 2 months later and had a party there.
Everybody happy, no problems with family annoying you and we didn't spend £14000 (the average cost of a wedding these days) and because we were on our own in Vegas and he didn't have to be embarresed the hubby agreed to wear a Kilt in my family tartan.
Good luck wherever you do it at the end of the day its down to your personnal tastes.
Have fun
Kala
My family would never forgive me for getting married in the States!
Jun 7th 2004, 2:39 am
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Re: Wedding Dilemma
Originally posted by bundy
Our good mates got married in Vegas at the end of a year long trek around the world - she wore blue chiffon, he wore a blue tux with frilly shirt, Elvis came along and they spent the first moments of married life on that rollercoaster thingy. They had no family or friends there, just themselves. But they'd both been married before and had done the whole white wedding thing.
My family would never forgive me for getting married in the States!
Our good mates got married in Vegas at the end of a year long trek around the world - she wore blue chiffon, he wore a blue tux with frilly shirt, Elvis came along and they spent the first moments of married life on that rollercoaster thingy. They had no family or friends there, just themselves. But they'd both been married before and had done the whole white wedding thing.
My family would never forgive me for getting married in the States!
The actual ceremony was a bit cheesy the woman had full on deep south ammerican Drawl which had us both laughing but it was still fun. Our families could even watch it live on the internet for a small fee so they all thought they were there.
Kala
Jun 9th 2004, 1:47 am
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I think we might, possibly, very tentatively, have a date. Saturday 6 August 2005. How does that sound? The chapel is free that day, so no probs there (assuming the Master of the college gives us permission, which he will, because Mr B supplies him with all his alcohol )
It's two days after my brother's birthday too, which makes it a good time for a celebration.
Yikes! Got to start thinking seriously about this now!
)It's two days after my brother's birthday too, which makes it a good time for a celebration.
Yikes! Got to start thinking seriously about this now!
