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You'll want platform 9 and 3/4 for the Hogwarts Express.

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I like this poster. I presume it's a post bombing poster. It's positive without resorting to gungho patriotism. I don't think it's a "carry on" movie poster - it's not in the bawdy carry on style.

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I was meant to be going to Oxford via megabus.com but it went all pear shaped. The bus was leaving at 12 midday and I arrived at the bus stop area at 5 to. The megabus wasn't there but there was an Oxford Tube bus there.

It turns out that The Oxford Tube takes Megabus passengers to Oxford (they are both run by Stagecoach). It didn't say this on my ticket that I printed out. So I missed the bus.

Fortunately the ticket I got was a free plus 50p booking fee ticket, otherwise I might have been upset about it all. I just took it as a 50 pence lesson in reading ticket details in the future.

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Lubeck Airport was once a cold war era airfield which is now used by Ryanair and other holiday airlines.

There is a plaque here to honour the Royal Australian Air Force. The R.A.A.F flew over 2000 missions during the Berlin airlift between 1948-49.

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Some posters currently wrapped around poles in Hamburg.

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The German elections had been and gone when I was in Hamburg and the election posters were still everywhere. At this point Deutschland is still without a new Chancellor.

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I went to Norwich today, in the east of England. It was most fortuitous that I arranged to go today, the day that the England cricket team paraded through central London in honour of regaining the Ashes. I'm all for parades, but this one would have been obscenely offensive to me, so a day out of the capital proved a wonderful tonic.

I remember reading about a sign that is about half an hours drive outside of New York City that says "Welcome to America" (if there isn't one there should be). A similar sign would be apt outside of London with "Welcome to England".

Indeed I am always struck with how English the rest of England is, if I may say such an absurd statement. When living in London you can forget you are in England. It's as if the land within the M25 is it's own island nation.

Of course there are all the trimmings there that make London English, like the royal red phone and post boxes, fish and chip shops and parochial national football supporters. It is such an international city though that London feels it belongs to the world rather than England.

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Today England won the fifth test against Australia and regained the Ashes. Australia have held the Ashes since 1989 - that's half of my lifetime! I know it's only a game but how can sport have the power to make you feel so dreadful?

At the end of the day though it is good for the game, as much as it pains me to say it. Interest has been revived here in England, and this famous rivalry over this unique trophy continues.

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Abney Park Cemetery is tucked away from the tourist masses in Stoke Newington, north-east London. I discovered it for myself whilst riding the number 73 bus to Seven Sisters.

The park is overrun with vegetation, creeping over the old tombstones. In the centre of the park is an abandoned chapel, which adds to the gothic flavour of the park. Best enjoyed on a drizzly afternoon.



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Aid donations for Hurricane Katrina can be to the American Red Cross.

Help victims of Hurricane Katrina

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