Furnival House London

... Oh and last night we found a shop that sells Aussie goods... see pics for what we bought!

Lastly, we’ve booked both our Christmas Markets tour to Brussels and Brugge on 5th December and also Hogmanay, which is from 30th December – 2nd January.

The next entry should be after the Christmas markets, so hopefully will be a bit more exciting!

By the way, the Aussies won.

Lots of love


Danni and Todd

... point where she handed it to her grandson? I was a very lucky
boy.

It also connected me with her on another level. From an early age I
have loved keeping scrapbooks, cutting and pasting and documenting.
I’ve never grown out of it. Even now, every theatre ticket, aeroplane
boarding pass, flyer and paper-related ephemera from everywhere I go is
collected obsessively and stuck in a book. Everywhere I go there is
always, at the back of my mind, a ...

... a friend so on Sunday 2nd August we headed off for a bit of celebrity spotting. Mayfair is a really posh area in London; I kept spotting Lamborghinis and Mercedes, and there are heaps of designer shops like Chanel, Marc Jacobs etc. Unfortunately, we didn’t see any celebrities but we saw a few of the pubs/clubs that they go to and I read about in the gossip papers here.

On Wednesday 5th August I headed to the Great British Beer Festival after work. I didn ...

... a relief to Bekah, who tends to worry like crazy about stuff like that. It was a simple hour and a half flight from Frankfurt to London. We had to go through London to get to Athens cuz it's British Airways...why not take the scenic route though? After a 3 hour layover in London, we got on our plane to Athens. It was supposed to leave at 11:50 but we sat on the plane and didn't leave until 12:45 because of an Athens delay. Oh well, next stop...Athens!

... we created at schoolies.

So
With or Without You was playing and here I was sentimental drunk,
singing and dancing along in Ireland thinking about my best mates whom
I had not seen for some three months, and I have never wanted to give
them a call and have a chat to them more in my entire life than at that
moment. I tried and I tried to call them but I had a UK sim card which
would not work in Ireland, I tried Joss’s phone, it was the same, so ...

This afternoon Jess and I escaped the busy streets of London and the boringness of Walthamstow to Hyde Park. We entered at the Hyde Park Corner tube entrance and walked along the Serpentine. Finally saw the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain. It is an interesting fountain. After a lot more walking we came to the Peter Pan statue, another feature of Hyde Park that I had not seen before. On our walk we saw heaps of squirrels. Squirrels are still a novelty for us!

... because I've decided to kill someone." Again, gotta love that British humor! Eventually we do all board the plane but of course it is late by now. Again, everything seems to be going rather smoothly until...hmm, we seem to be sitting an awfully long time. The man next to me says, "This heat is beginning to feel familiar." OH NO, don't say that. I hear a few people asking the crew if this is "the" plane from yesterday, but they are ...

... cold and wet UK. I remember arriving in Auckland, New Zealand and it was 21c. I was walking around with a fleece on feezing my ass :-( When I will arrive home it was be nice to get into my own bed and stay there the next day. :-) I will perhaps take a little time out before looking for a job depending on the cash flow :-(

... midnight LDN time (6:00 EST), and by 5:00 AM LDN or so on the flight I was alert again. AND I slept away most of the flight and my teeth didnt hurt! Not sure what's planned for tomorrow. Seeing other travellers (there are 2 hostels right near Byron Hotel where we're staying) makes me really excited to meet people. Ha, I don't even know who I'm living with in Wales. Somewhere though, these people exist! And in less than a week, we'll be living together!

Hello family and friends! I made it across the Atlantic ok and I am now at the house of the people I am staying with (the Cambridge's). The flight was really nice and I even got to sleep a few hours, but the 5 hour time difference and the jet-lag are making me a little lethargic (so sorry if this message doesn't make sense). Even though I barely ...