I had a bit of a sleep in and undertook the bulk of my packing for Greece. I had to try and jam all of it into a “small” backpack. Personally I think I did pretty well. Leo and I headed down to the Local Library at Balham to get some books out for our trip and stopped at Heidi’s work ‘The Clarence’ for a drink in the sun on the way back. We made some sandwiches for our flight and after a quick goodbye to Suz, we ran down to Clapham South Tube Station and caught a tube to Victoria with only moments to spare. We jumped on the bus, and managed to find two ‘empty’ seats that were vaguely close to each other. Phew! I was sitting next to a young guy, say early ... read more

Suz came in to my room at 6.30am telling me to get up - we both felt like crap after only 3 hours sleep. Apparently, Suz’s alarm went off and she thought it was Monday, got up and got dressed for work - haha! We chucked a few things in a bag and jumped in the car. We tried to get out of London, it took us 40 minutes to get over the River Thames (which should have taken 10!) We found ourselves driving around random suburbs with building that were falling down, etc. Suz just happened to randomly look back and saw a sign for the M11! We did a quick U-turn and we were finally on our way. Still feeling rather average. We got to Cambridge nice an early, about 8am, parked the car ... read more

I had a nice little sleep in until 10.30am before undertaking my morning ritual of breakfast and checking e-mails. I got an unexpected call from Brendan saying he was coming back to London this afternoon as they need him board the ship in Shoreham-by-sea tomorrow. I meet Leo at London Bridge Station at about 2.30pm. The station is a lot bigger that I had envisioned, at it took me awhile to actually find him, even with cellphone communication! We walked all the way to the London Eye from the London Bridge Station, which it a lot further than we realised. We had a look at the London Eye, but couldn’t be bothered to wait in the queue. I did the touristy thing and took some photos, then we made our way over the bridge to Big ... read more

I had set a date with the bank to get my debit card (like an eftpos card) and accounts sorted out, which meant Brendan and I had to get up at a reasonable time to get into Oxford Street by 10.30am. However, this time we had to battle with the tubes by ourselves! We made it just time - or should I say, we were only a few minutes late. I had my meeting at HSBC and was bombarded with all sorts of information. After a good half an hour, I think I was just happy to have something that resembled an eftpos card and went on my merry way. Brendan and I went for a walk up to Hyde Park, checked out the lake, known as “The Serpentine”. We embarked on a mission walk across ... read more

We boarded our plane with at least twice the amount of permitted carry on luggage. However, the flight was strangely empty so this didn’t seem to pose too much of a problem. We found ourselves at the back of the plane, with people only sitting in every second row and no one in the middle, which suggested this would be a reasonably comfortable flight. We managed to acquire the majority of the pillows from the back half of the plane, but even with a row to ourselves, it seemed impossible to get comfortable. We finally landed about 8.30pm local time, collected out luggage and headed to the immigration desks. Thanks to a few innocent smiles and some cheap chit chat, we both managed to get thought without any problems. The next thing I remember was someone ... read more