London

Ok guys, how's it going?

Good news, we've reached the UK, meaning that I finally get to type on good keyboards again! Hooray for typing at a decent speed, rather than taking twice as long as it should to put up a blog post.

So..... when I left you, we were in Antwerp, home of diamonds. Well, simply put, we caught a plane to London city airport, and so now we're in London, home of stupid guard hats, some queen-ish person, and english-speaking people. Let me tell you, it's a bit surreal finally making it to a country where english is the primary language. We haven't been in one of those since Australia, actually, so it's a welcome change.

We're sharing an apartment with Team Duamo (minus Vanessa, who already lives in London) from Italy, so that's fun. Above is a photo of the veiw from out apartment. It's nice and close to an Underground station, so getting into town is nice and simple.

So far we've only really had one day here, and we just spent that strolling around London. The weather was appropriately english, meaning it was cold and raining on and off. As such a lot of my photos didn't come out well due to bad lighting, but I've done my best.

I'm sure the photo below gives you an idea of the lighting we had. Note that this is with flash. Anyways, at least you can kind of see me, and make out the sillouettes of Big Ben, the houses of parliament, and the London Eye in the background.





We walked right under the London Eye, but decided not to go for a ride on it that day. Perhaps another time. The whole thing is so unbalanced it makes me shiver, but it seems to stay upright. I decided to get a bit artistic with the photography, some impressive skies helped.















Walking across the river, the sun revealed itself for long enough for me to shoot this shot off by sticking my arms through a fence, hence no people in it.












The night ended by us heading off to meet up with Michelle, a friend of Angie and Sammie's. She lead us to a nice pub called 'Hornimans on Hayes', which I get the feelig she chose purely for the comical value of the name of the place. But they did have a nice selection of English Ales, of which I tried a pint of one of them. I forget the name, but I remember thinking two things; namely that the beer was pretty damn good, but that this english thing of room temperature beer was not pretty damn good. Admittedly it was cold enough that room temperature was pretty cold, but John reckons it needed to be about 6.5 degrees colder.

The place was just outside London Bridge Underground Station, so I took a quick walk down the warf and snapped this of London Bridge at night time. Now I would like everyone to admire my beautiful use of shutter speed and stabilising handrails, and go 'Ooooooh, Aaaaaah'


Ok, well that basically sums up what we've been up to so far. We've got 2 weeks here, and the internet cafe is close by, so stay tuned for a couple more posts. Tomorrow we're going on a bus tour of Stongehenge and Bath, so that's something you can look forward to. We'll also be heading off to Cambridge, as well as all the obligatory London sites.

Anyways, have fun people, I'll let you know what's happening when I can be bothered :P

Bye all,
Bob (John's vedging in the apartment)