Brisbane to London and the First Few Days

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Well finally back home and as promised, some pics.

Had an unbelievable time on the trip - will write about the pics individually due to being awake for 36 hours straight.

According to my trusty travel diary, which I'm glad I took due to so much happening in the last month, and quite possibly a few million braincells killed along the way, we arrived in London at 12pm on 2/5/08. I'm led to believe we got straight on the tube (awesome transport system I might add) and legged it pommy-prat style to Russell Square to the Royal National accommodation. We walked around for a couple of hours but it started raining and we were pretty buggered by that stage and crashed for the night.

The next day we did the tourist thing, went for a spin on the London Eye - we had a good clear day so that was lucky, walked past Big Ben and towards the change of the guard. We had a squiz at Buckingham Palace and met up with the Queen for a coffee and some freshly baked scones served on hand-painted perrywinkle royal doulton fine china. Lovely morning, but we had a tight schedule and food wise, it was bugger all, so we got some real lunch at Piccadilly Circus, and apparently it was lunch time for about 35 million other Londoners. 5 hours and a stale cheeseburger later, we went down to Leicester Square for a gander at the shops, on to peaceful and packed Hyde Park full of locals kicking soccer balls around with their kids and crazy roller skaters with too much spare time on their hands, and feet POW! Oh and we also saw a squirrel type creature. We then had a look at Harrods, the most overpriced store in London - where we bought some spirits off a lovely french girl (wee wee) before we tubed it back from Kinghtsbridge to Russell Square for the night for a few local ales (speckled hen - crap taste and warm) and pizza hut for dinner.

Enjoy pics more to follow!

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Photos

Leaving Brisbane
and getting pumped up for the 20 something hour flight ahead - Bris-> Singapore -> Dubai -> Heathrow.

Swwww
it's Arabic for Pepsi!

First taste of Dubai
42 degrees, and we caught buses to connecting flight

Hazy Dubai
Emirates own the airport

View from Above
Built up city full of Palaces, then baron sand dunes

Righteo
Glad he knows where he is

First glimpse of London
Mmmm i love small cities?

Russell Square
Just an average building, nothing special.

Telephone
Had to do it.

The Bung Hole
Obviously the word Liquorland is too shallow and pedantic for Londoners.

Intersection
No shortcuts.

Thames, Ben and Eye
A few popular bits.

London Eye
It was a great day for a spin.

Big Ben
This place was massive.

Up the top
Amazing views of mass construction

Maccas Menu
France was better, you could swap the coke for a beer.

Big Tasty
Literally. Filled me up for 4 days.

Eye
Eyy

Changing of the Guard
This perade went for about 40 mins, full on.

Guard
They stare straight ahead the whole time.

Downing Street
He did not take me seriously when I requested entry to meet with the Prime Minister, who I had organised a meeting with only hours before.