Heather:
Margery got a gentle introduction to life in the Smith-Gourley household as our first stop was only twenty minutes away! (Actually all the locals say it's twenty minutes away but I'm starting to wonder if a Kiwi twenty minutes might be a bit different to ours, well it definitely is in the van anyway!) Molly's a Welsh friend of ours that we worked the festivals with over the Summer. She lives out here now, so we came to stay. It's so nice to see a familiar face and we had a day on the beach together, as well as a night on the beer. As we were walking home (baring in mind Cambridge is a VERY small town) the sight of Ben with two women on his arm caused enough of a stir to cause someone to shout "Respect to the man in the glasses!" That's our Benji - Super Stud :0)
The people here are so friendly. I know people say that about everywhere, even Wales, where in some places you're lucky to not have your head knocked off! But here it really is true. A prime example being that when Ben was messing about in the campervan outside Molly's house, one of the neighbours came over. I was completely convinced that she would complain about the van being parked in the street. What other reason would a neighbour have for coming over at home? Well it turned out that she has a campervan too and wanted to compare notes! We were taken over the road to see her's, introduced to the three dogs, chatted to "gramps" etc, etc. It really is different here, I promise.
So after a few lessons in Kiwi; chilli bin = cool box, jangles = flipflops and trundlers = shopping trollys we leave Molly to go back to work and finally head off in Margery...
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