London

I spent last week in London which was pretty cool. I stayed with my brother which was great because I hadn´t seen him for a while so we could catch up and also because it was free. The downside was that I had to share a bed with him and there were four people in the room so it was kind of cramped.

While I was there I also went out to see Dave from uni and Jacquie from Sydney Water which was cool too. We ended up going to a pub called The Porterhouse which is actually an Irish pub and I had spent a bit of time in the ones in Dublin so it was funny to end up there in London too. (To Ben - also reminded me of the New Years Porterhouse challange which made me feel a bit queasy in the stomach and then very proud of myself).

While I was there I also went on the London Eye (the big ferris wheel) with my brother. It was good because we chose a really clear day to go so we could see everywhere. I went to the Grenwich Observatory which is where GMT (Grenwich Mean Time) is measured from which was kinda cool. I spent one day walking along the Thames river and crossing over all the bridges, it was good because I got to see a bit of London outside of the city centre and I also got to do a bit of exercise.

One day I went on a day trip to Windsor Castle, Stonehenge and Bath which was fantastic. Windsor Castle is where the Queen lives when she´s not working at Buckingham palace. Stonehenge was my favourite. I had wanted to go there for a long time but hadn´t got around to organising it. There´s not much to do there, just walk around all the stones but even still I liked it. Bath was a nice little city, we went to the old Roman Bathes there and had a bit of a look around which was ok. My personal highlight of the day was getting a photo of a sign for "Slough Trading Estate", where The Office was set so look out for it in my photo section when I have time to upload them. Another interesting thing: around Stonehenge there are a lot of army training grounds and we saw a sign which said "Tank Crossing" (similar to our "Kangaroo Crossing" signs back home). Our guide hadn´t seen a tank crossing the road in all the years she´d been doing the tour but it was our lucky day and we had to stop the bus and wait for a tank to cross the road in front of us - it was a bit of a strange experience!

P.S. To people who have sent me emails in the last couple of weeks, I´m not ignoring you, I´ve just been a bit slack in replying but I will try to reply in the next couple of weeks...